Lithuania has banned access to the website Sputnik
Lithuanian Commission on radio and television has ordered providers to block within the country the website of the news Agency Sputnik Lithuania.
Lithuanian Commission on radio and television has ordered providers to block within the country the website of the news Agency Sputnik Lithuania.
As stressed in the press service of the regulator, July 3, the Lithuanian radio and television (LRT) informed about what the organization without the approval posted on its Internet representation of the publication portal LRT.
"LRT appealed to the administrator of the web site and hosting provider with a request to remove illegally published content protected by copyright, but it continued illegally to publish the admin of this web site continued to indirectly encourage users to use illegally published materials ", - quotes Agency the letter of the press service of the regulator.
Clarifies that at the time of treatment 1464 published article.
The decision will take effect, if it is approved by the Vilnius regional administrative court.
first to block a website called people's deputies from the party "Union of Fatherland - Christian Democrats of Lithuania" Laurynas Kasciunas and Audronius ažubalis. The eighteenth of June, they told that the Agency "distort reality" and among them the history of the so-called " Lithuanian partisans ".
at the end of may the chief editor of Sputnik Lithuania Marat Qassem tied on arrival in Vilnius airport with the caption " a Danger to state security ". He closed the entrance for 5 years and in the same day expelled from the country.
the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation stated with clear signs of a coordinated line of the Baltic States by obstructing the work of the Russian media. These cases "clearly demonstrate, which in practice are demagogic statements about the commitment of Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn to the principles of democracy and freedom of speech," the Ministry said.
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