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Journalist, philologist and litterateur Liudvikas Gadeikis, 63, has been elected chairman of the Council of the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) on Tuesday.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday appointed Tomas Balžekas, a journalist and the owner of a magazine publishing business, Giedrė Švedienė, a former auditor general, and Norbertas Černiauskas, a historian, as new members of the LRT Council.

The council of the Lithuanian national radio and television LRT on Tuesday elected Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė, former editor-in-chief of delfi.lt news portal, as CEO of the national broadcaster, the council's chairman Žygintas Pečiulis confirmed.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is calling on the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) Council to elect the public broadcaster's next director general in an open vote.

Žygintas Pečiulis, the head of the council of the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT, told the parliamentary commission scrutinizing LRT finances whether members of the council understood numbers of the budgets they had approved.

The Lithuanian parliament's acting commission for scrutiny of the national broadcaster's operations decided at its first meeting on Thursday to turn to 14 institutions for information about LRT, asking the government to earmark money and call a tender for LRT's external audit.

Council of the Lithuanian national radio and television LRT decided on Tuesday that candidates for LRT top executive will be required to have a master's degree.

The information submitted to Lithuanian parliamentarians may contain shortcomings, as the parliament was requesting too many documents within an excessively short period of time, says Žygintas Pečiulis, chairman of the council of the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT.

Lawmakers of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) are initiating a parliamentary investigation into the management and financial and economic activities of the public broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), Arvydas Nekrošius, vice-speaker of the Seimas, has confi...

The Lithuanian National Audit Office (NAO) expects to decide by mid-January whether or not to perform an audit of the public broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT).

Eighty Lithuanian parliamentarians asked additional questions to the council of the national broadcaster LRT, asking for more information about employee salaries, contracts with producer companies and lease of property.