Information war

It is hard to find anyone in Lithuania who does not believe that Russia's propaganda campaigns in the Baltic EU member state have been growing in intensity.

Although the real gunshots are echoing from Ukraine, which is thousands of kilometres away from Lithuania, the echoes of warfare in our country's cyberspace are heard loud and clear and, unfortunately, are likely to get even more so. So says Kaunas University of Technology Professor Algimantas Venčk...

With a massive propaganda machine at its disposal, the Kremlin has already started an information war in Lithuania, claims an officer of the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says political scientists should be the vanguard in the context of recent events in Ukraine and amidst the information war.

Just as the purpose of terror is to terrorize, the purpose of provocation is to provoke – and if the targets of a provocation understand what the one engaging in it wants to provoke, they will be in a much better position not only to prepare for it but to avoid falling into the trap the provocateur ...

Media experts say the new Russian-language public broadcasting television channel, approved by the Estonian government last week, must win over viewers with quality programming about everyday life in Estonia.

Lithuania's integrated telecommunication, IT and TV services provider Teo LT said on Thursday that it will offer clients Dozhd (Rain), an independent Russian TV channel, as part of its digital TV package. The broadcast will be available in Lithuania in October.

An interview with Hans Luik, an Estonian media tycoon and the main shareholder of DELFI, a major online news portal in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

How to counter intensifying Russian propaganda campaigns that have been targeting Lithuania lately? This was the topic of the discussion on LRT political debate programme "The Right to Know" on Monday night.

The State Security Department (VSD) issued a statement urging people to be vigilant and not give in to the propaganda campaign waged by Russia in relation to Ukraine.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė suggests a provision that at least 90 percent of the television programmes rebroadcast in Lithuania should be in the official languages of the European Union, adding that fines should be imposed for instigation of war and infringement upon independence.

Bulgaria is in information war with Russia, says Bulgaria's Defence Ministry report “Outlook 2020: Bulgaria and NATO in European defence”, published on the ministry website.

This year, during the month of July, the Central and Eastern European Coalition (CEEC), met with California U.S. congressman Adam Schiff and the U.S. Governor of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Matthew Armstrong, to exchange thoughts on Russian inspired and supported armed conflicts and t...

Well-known Lithuanian non governmental organizations have refused to provide comments to the First Baltic Channel (PBK), a Russian-language TV station, stating that it does not comply with the media transparency criteria and is considered a threat to Lithuania's state interests.

The heralds of information wars are disconcerted, identify ever more battlefields, call on proper mobilisation. The latest example is the response of Aleksandras Matonis to a report aired on the Russian TV, in which members of the expedition Mission Russia have been referred to as tourists following...

The Russian Federation uses extensive propaganda, outright lies, and — most importantly — disinformation as part of the hybrid warfare it is waging against Ukraine and the West. Disinformation combines truth, what people want to be true, and cleverly disguised outright falsehoods.