Information war

The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (LRTK) and representatives of the Russian-language TV channel NTV Mir Lithuania disagree on the application of Lithuanian laws.

A proposal by Lithuania and three other countries to draft an action plan to fight Russian propaganda received backing from EU institutions and member states on Monday, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says.

A Vilnius court on Thursday ruled to suspend broadcasts of the Russian-language Ren TV Baltic in Lithuania for three months.

There have been two positive developments in the so-called information war last week. On Friday, Vilnius Administrative Court rejected the request by the LRTK (Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission) to sanction a three-month licence suspension for Ren TV Baltic, a Russian TV channel, to broadca...

Both the European Union (EU) and Lithuania should be more pro-active in the information field instead of defensive, as the case is now, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says.

A Russian official has criticized suggestions by several European Union nations, including Lithuania, to form a consistent pan-EU effort to counter Russia's propaganda campaign.

Vilnius Regional Administrative Court on Friday rejected the request by Lithuania's Radio and Television Commission to halt broadcasting of the Russian-language TV channel Ren TV Baltic's programs. The commission had asked to suspend broadcasting of programmes produced outside the European Union for...

Lithuania, Great Britain, Denmark and Estonia have turned to the European Commission with a call to work out an action plan for fighting the Russian propaganda campaign, shows a copy of the letter obtained by BNS.

In the 1950s, Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash invented a Machiavellian game entitled So Long Suckers. To win, a player had to game, and ultimately betray, his adversaries. Today, as they sit in frozen trenches in what was once aptly named the Wild Fields, it looks as if the soldie...

Repeated violations of the law may lead to suspension of rebroadcasting of RTR Planeta and NTV Mir Lithuania channels for up to one year, says Edmundas Vaitekūnas, the head of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission.

British journalist and writer Edward Lucas has urged the West to “wake up” in its response to Russia's actions, calling upon Lithuanian expats to help their country in the information warfare.

The Russian state's control of Russian media is well known and thus, it is not surprising that the Russian media had often been used as Moscow’s tool abroad. The prevalence of the Russian language and the sizeable Russian minorities in Estonia and Latvia facilitate receptiveness to Russian language ...

Russia has consistently applied its own interpretation of history and dose of propaganda vis-à-vis the Baltic states. In the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the main source of tension in the propaganda sphere was the interpretation of Soviet history, in particular Soviet occupation of the Baltic states...

TV rebroadcaster Viasat plans to halt the broadcasting of Russian TV channels if the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania decides to ban rebroadcasting of such channels, the company's CEO for the Baltic countries and Finland said on Monday.

Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine is well-oiled. That’s more or less what our media concludes from the ubiquitous lies diffusing from the Russian TV channels. When you work in communications, the operation of this machine seems even more menacing because it’s not only the final result that you see...

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has once again submitted her amendments to the Law on Public Information, saying the aim of the bill is to ensure national security and protect the society from hostile propaganda and disinformation.

In early December, the Lithuanian Cable Television Association (LKTA) signed an agreement with Ukrainian television channel Ukraine Today.

There are many misconceptions about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is being negotiated between the United States and the European Union, says Charles Ries, vice president of the Rand Corporation.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has recently called Russia a terrorist state. She is not alone in saying so.

So-called trolls, who work to create an impression that many in the society are in Russia’s favour, work in Latvia’s information space, as noted by the Latvian Security Police.