Kremlin propaganda portals and social media accounts are actively spreading news about the alleged involvement of a charity foundation by Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska in child trafficking. They allege that children are sold to into slavery, trafficked for organs, or send to paedophiles in wea...
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Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.[1] Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies, religious organizations and the media can also produce propaganda.
Next year Russia will hold presidential elections. But there are some problems. First of all, Russia is not a democratic state. In "Freedom House" rankings it belongs to the "not free" countries category. In 2017 the country received an evaluation of only 20 points from 100. It means, that in the sh...
Lithuania's poor political culture gives food for hostile propaganda, Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and head of the parliament's Committee on Culture, said on Wednesday.
Lithuania's intelligence institutions on Monday published the traditional report of national security threats. BNS Lithuania presents the six key threats listed in the document:
The signal of the US Congress-financed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) rebroadcast via Lithuania should be amplified in an effort to resist the Russian propaganda, and the radio should be broadcast round the clock, Lithuania's Ambassador to the United States Rolandas Kriščiūnas told US sena...
Before switching on the dictophone, Gintas Jasiulionis, elder of Rukla, a town in central Lithuania that is hosting the NATO enhanced Forward Presence battalion, asks BNS journalists to produce their press cards – he explains he wants to make sure he is not targeted by the Russian propaganda.
Lithuania's Justice Ministry has banned the use of the Lithuanian name in titles of the Lietuvos Laikas and Litovskoye Vremia Lithuanian- and Russian-language broadcasts.
Lithuania needs a bigger defence budget to ensure cyber security and prepare for universal military conscription, says Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence, which has recently called on political parties to commit to increasing defence spending to 2...
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis and State Security Department chief Darius Jauniškis on Tuesday discussed the possible plans of the Swedish media concern Modern Times Group (MTG) to sell its business in the Baltic states, including the TV3 television group.
Lithuania has denied entry to representatives of a Russian foundation that is on the national blacklist, a move that Moscow has said will not go unanswered.
Seen as one of the most important Russian financed propaganda channels, the news agency Sputnik has so far been releasing their reports in more than thirty languages. The two year old Kremlin information project will be releasing “diverse opinions” in Lithuanian from now on as well, states is websit...
Lithuanian schools need media literacy as a subject states Vilnius University Communications faculty dean Professor Andrius Vaišnys.
If you type the word “hybrid” into the Google search machine, you will get a rather likely result – the term “hybrid car”. Only later Google will include such terms, as “hybrid warfare” and “hybrid threats”. In general, hybrid means a thing made by combining two or many different elements, mixed. So...
A top-ranking US diplomat in charge of sanctions says he understands the Lithuanian decision to refuse access to Russian "ropagandists," although the bans are not practiced by Washington.