Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė
Opinion

Opinion: Winning back hearts and souls of Lithuania’s citizens

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. […]

Politics

Lithuanian president vetoes amendments allowing political control of media

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday vetoed proposed amendments to the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public, which, in her opinion, would pave the way for the media’s control by political parties. […]

No Picture
Society

Why Lithuania banned Russian TV channel

Lithuania made international headlines last week when its Radio and Television Commission decided to institute a blanket ban on all programmes of a Russian TV channel. The channel in question, RTR Planeta, is registered in Sweden, but its content is entirely Russian-produced. The Commission had previously suspended broadcasts of individual programmes, saying they violated Lithuanian laws, but RTR Planeta would not stop. […]

No Picture
Society

Lithuanian PM commends ban on Russian TV channel

The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission took a responsible step on Wednesday to ban broadcasts of the Russian-language RTR Planeta channel for three months, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. Meanwhile Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius cautions that bans won’t solve the problem of Russian misinformation campaign. […]

Peter Pomerantsev, „Epoch Times“ nuotr.
Uncategorized

Peter Pomerantsev: Big media need their Geneva convention

As Russia wages war in Ukraine, attacking not just military targets but also basic common sense with aggressive misinformation and propaganda campaign, information has become a security issue. Faced with new and quite unprecedented challenges, big media is approaching a moment when it will need to have a Geneva convention moment – get together and agree on a global self-regulation mechanism, says British journalist and author Peter Pomerantsev. […]

Hans Luik
Society

DELFI shareholder: Dictatorial propaganda has taught us to value freedom of press

One of Estonia‘s richest people and shareholder of DELFI, one of the biggest media groups in the Baltics, Hans Luik shares stories about getting into the media industry, doing business in Ukraine and challenges to free media raised by dictatorial governments as well as technological advances. […]

Edmundas Vaitekūnas
Society

Lithuania’s radio and TV authority says it has too few powers to fight propaganda

The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania has very limited powers of fighting propaganda, its chairman Edmundas Vaitekūnas says. […]