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Society

US plans investigative journalism training in Baltic states

The US Embassy in Lithuania is looking for organizers of “investigative journalism training to counter Russian messaging in the Baltics”. […]

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Politics

Lithuanian parliament to hold presentation of TV channel Ukraine Today

At the request of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Lithuania, the Seimas, parliament, is holding a presentation of the Ukrainian TV channel Ukraine Today, which is to be launched in Lithuania. The participants at the presentation in the European Information Office on Thursday will be welcomed by Benediktas Juodka, Chair of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs, the press service of the Seimas said. […]

Edmundas Vaitekūnas
Society

Media watchdog might ban one more Russian TV channel from Lithuanian airwaves

The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania, which recently suspended broadcasts of a Russian TV channel, says it has sufficient evidence on violations by another Russian television to ban it from Lithuanian airwaves. […]

Rimvydas Valatka
Society

Rimvydas Valatka: Critical journalism has no place in Lithuanian media

Rimvydas Valatka has long been regarded as one of the titans of the Lithuanian media. A long-time chief editor of Lietuvos Rytas, Lithuania’s biggest and most influential daily newspaper, Valatka has been a household name and one of the most biting pens in the industry, hated by some and revered by others, but a force to be reckoned with. It therefore sent a wave of shock and surprise across the media industry when he was recently dismissed as editor-in-chief of 15min.lt, Lithuania’s second online news portal. […]

State Security Department
Society

Lithuanian security report focuses on media groups voicing pro-Moscow ideas

Lithuania’s State Security Department stated on Monday that the media of the Respublikos Leidiniai (Respublika Publications) and balsas.lt group, as well as the organisation founded by Rolandas Paulauskas disseminated anti-Western opinions, which “often echoed the ideas propagated by Moscow”. […]

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Society

Media watchdog to decide on full ban of Russian TV channel in Lithuania

Lithuania’s Radio and Television Commission will Wednesday decide on issuing a temporary ban on all broadcasts of Russian-language channel RTR Planeta in the country. […]