The President proposes to reduce the number of broadcasts in the Russian language up to 10%
The head of Lithuania Dalia grybauskait? proposes to make to the public information act amendments, According to which Over 90 % are relayed in Lithuania television programs must be in the official languages of the European Union to reduce the number of Russian-language programs from 30 to 10%, informs on the last working day of the week, the press service of the head of the Baltic Republic.
appropriate corrections Manager has prepared and submitted to the Sejm. According to Grybauskaite, such events are necessary to protect the state and society from the distributed misinformation " in connection with " the increased number of information attacks and hostile propaganda ". She also said that a similar procedure operates in Germany, France, Slovenia and Malta. Now up to 30% of all relayed programmes in Lithuania is the products of Russian TV channels.
" According to the project it is proposed that for propaganda for war and incitement, appeals to encroach upon the sovereignty and independence of the Republic of Lithuania Lithuanian Commission on radio and television was only able not only to discuss the question of the suspension of a license for transmission or retransmission, but also assign monetary fines, according to the report of the press service.
" Today no one Vsplanet doubt that information security is part of national security. Hostile propaganda and incitement to war and intolerance, misinformation from causing danger to the security and democracy of our country. We must take action and actively integrate into the information space of the European Union ", - the press service of the President of Lithuania.
first of Lithuanian Commission on television and radio in court twice suspended the broadcasting of the First Baltic channel ", rebroadcasting programs of the Russian " First channel ", and for a period of 3 months was suspended relay channels " RTR-Planeta " and " NTV Mir ". The reason for this was the transmission that was offered at odds with the official position of Lithuania look at historical events in Lithuania and the development of the situation in Ukraine.