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.
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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.
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.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Director, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. How the intentions to limit broadcasting of some Russian TV channels in Lithuania corresponds with Freedom of Speech, we asked Vilpišausk...
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.
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...
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...
The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday gave its initial backing to President Dalia Grybauskaitė's proposed amendments on fighting hostile propaganda.
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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.
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.
The Lithuania Tribune/ DELFI TV spoke to Edward Lucas, Senior Editor of the Economist. We asked Edward Lucas on how are we behind the Russian propaganda.
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.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to, Aivar Jaeski, Chief of Public Affairs and StratCom Adviser of the Estonian Armed Forces Colonel, who gave a presentation at a conference Civil Defence in a Hybrid War, organised by Lithuania's National Riflemen Union, in Vilnius. We asked if Colonel agre...
The focus of the people of Lithuania and their readiness to deter aggression is the most efficient deterrence, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in her opening speech at an international conference on civil defence.
For almost a year now Russian propaganda in the US was lingering in the fringes of society. Now the Kremlin’s RT hits the main streets of Washington, DC, and New York City with an ad campaign of a different kind. It seems that Russian propaganda, the often-ignored part of the war conflict, has hit r...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Professor Vytautas Landsbergis, the first ldeader of post-Soviet Lithuania. How should we fight against the propaganda war, long term and short term? How to convince our closest allies that we are not enemies of the free press but that we must fight propaganda here and...
