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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.
The new propagandists who dominated the Russian media were formed by the experience of the trauma of the 1990s and the loss of the certainties of the Soviet past. Their ideology is a fusion of Soviet and imperial Russian ideas. Its chief intellectual weakness is that it must link Russian success to ...
Mantas Martišius, a Lithuanian expert on information warfare and propaganda, said that celebrating 9 May carries a special significance for Vladimir Putin's regime.
How much space did non-conformist art and artists enjoy in a society where they were inevitably included into the Soviet state machinery? The question was raised in a recent discussion by artists, historians and art critics who research art and artistic production during the Soviet period.
Fringe online media outlets in Lithuania, often embracing ideas that match those of the state-controlled Russian media, have long been cooperating and sharing information among themselves. Experts say that now they are mobilizing behind politicians who are trying to win power.
The fight against the propaganda in democratic countries must adhere to democratic principles and governments should refrain from blocking contrarian opinions where possible, said Dunja Mijatović, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) representative for media freedom, who i...
Lithuania is a small country in comparison to Russia. So why does the Kremlin pay Lithuania a disproportionate amount of its attention? One reason is that it needs weak enemies that it can divert its people’s attention to. There was a time when Russian polls indicated that they saw Lithuania as thei...
A week after Gediminas Grina, the former chief of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) compared the country’s ethnic minority schools to “education ghettos” and called for their removal, Klaipeda’s Russian school teachers are still upset about his comments.
The State Security Department has showed to the Parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee the schemes by which money for propaganda comes from Moscow to Lithuania.
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...
Lithuania is holding a discussion on the threats of Russian propaganda during the ongoing OSCE meeting in Warsaw on Tuesday, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says.
In response to the impact of the Russian propaganda in the Baltic region, a Centre of Journalistic Excellence should be established in Latvia to focus on the quality of media, particularly, the Russian-language media, Lithuanian Culture Vice-Minister Romas Jarockis said.
The NTV Mir Lithuania, a Russian-language TV channel that had its broadcasts suspended in Lithuania, gave a biased coverage of the situation in Ukraine, the United Kingdom's communications regulator Ofcom has ruled.
Lithuania should not follow the Ukrainian example of banning Russian-language television channels and offering no alternative, says Ukrainian journalist Tetyana Pushnova, general producer of the Ukraine Today TV.
Commenting on recent reports that the rebroadcasting of one more Russian TV channel could be suspended in Lithuania, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that such bans are not the best way to fight propaganda. Instead, he says, Lithuania should create high-quality alternatives.
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday backed amendments, drafted by President Dalia Grybauskaitė, on countering hostile propaganda, after 79 lawmakers voted in favour, four were against and 27 abstained.
The Lithuanian parliament's Education and Science Committee on Wednesday gave a green light to the amendments initiated by President Dalia Grybauskaitė on countering hostile propaganda.
Lithuania is very likely to be the only European Union country to completely boycott the end of World War Two commemoration event in Moscow on 9 May. Unlike our closest neighbours - Latvia and Estonia - we will not be even sending a diplomat to the ceremony.
Lithuania's IT and telecommunications company Teo is starting a public education project entitled Consciousness Beats Propaganda in 10 cities and towns of Lithuania.
A ban on broadcasts of the Russian-language TV channel RTR Planeta took effect in Lithuania on Monday, while the ban on rebroadcasts of some of the content of Ren TV Baltic has expired.
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 prev...
