Latvians had revoked the broadcast licence for the Russian opposition TV channel Dozhd. Before that, the channel had been expelled from Moscow by Putin. It is for Latvians to judge how well this decision was […]
It was an otherwise normal Maltese afternoon. One of those beautiful, balmy days, typical of late summer, characterised by the sun, surrounded by the poetic beauty of the blue sky. It was five years ago […]
In eighteen days (Editor – today it is the 29th day) of Russia’s unjustified war against Ukraine, the entire world has seen cynical Russian shelling of civilian infrastructure, mass killings of non-combatants intentionally orchestrated humanitarian […]
You, the employees of the Russian media, are clearly and directly responsible for one more war started by Putin’s regime. For many years you ignored an important postulate of journalism – verification of information. Instead, […]
Today, we mark the International Human Rights Day and where human rights are respected, so is the freedom of speech. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human […]
Gabrielius Landsbergis, Chair of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat (TS-LKD) Political Group, and Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Deputy Chair of the Committee on National Security and Defence of the Seimas, addressed the Lithuanian MEPs with […]
Journalism is a vaccination for democracy. Sometimes it hurts, but it protects the whole system from lethal diseases. Technological progress is changing the world, but it cannot change one eternal law: those, who do not […]
Lithuania moved up slightly on the media freedom index published by the US non-governmental organization Freedom House, ranking 21 points on a scale where 0 means full freedom and 100 means full media restriction. […]
Lithuania’s parliament has taken the presidential veto into account, deciding to discard the latest amendments of the Civil Code. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), says that he will propose that the party’s political group at the parliament should support the president’s veto of amendments to the Civil Code on insulting public figures. […]
The adopted amendments to the Lithuanian Civil Code constitute a threat to free speech, says civil law expert Valentinas Mikelėnas, professor at the Vilnius University. […]
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has welcomed Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s decision to veto amendments to the Criminal Code criminalizing the disclosure of information from closed court proceedings. […]
A new media freedom ranking by Freedom House puts Lithuania ahead of Russia, Belarus, Latvia and Poland, but behind Estonia. […]
Lithuania was ranked 35th in this year’s World Press Freedom Index published by the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders. […]
Lithuanian reporters have asked the country’s president to veto a law that introduces penalties for reporting on non-open trial procedures. […]
A year ago, when Islamist radicals shot and killed eight members of Charlie Hebdo’s editorial office, Europe bravely stood up for freedom of speech and declared it would not be intimidated. A free press is exactly what separates us from undemocratic regimes, and we will fight for it. When those attacks happened, we couldn’t have dreamed in our worst nightmares that Europe itself would soon voluntarily give up freedom of speech, embracing a new era of political correctness where democratic states like Germany or Sweden would be reluctant to share the real truth. […]
The fight against the propaganda in democratic countries must adhere to democratic principles and governments should refrain from blocking contrarian opinions where possible, said Dunja Mijatović, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) representative for media freedom, who is visiting Lithuania. […]
The State Security Department (VSD) of Lithuania, which is in charge of monitoring and dealing with national security threats, presented a report this week, outlining methods used by Russia to fund pro-Kremlin and anti-Western propaganda in Lithuania. […]
The West now faces bigger problems than Ukraine’s future or Russia’s plans for its neighbours. The growing threat of terrorism makes Russia more and more indispensable to its Western partners. That’s dangerous for the Baltic states because there’s no way that the Kremlin will renounce its aggressive goals, get lost in Syria or run out of resources for all of its front lines. […]
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