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Lithuania Weekly: Discussions about Country’s Security
During this reporting week, heated discussions were mainly accelerated by two cases. Firstly, a man carrying a bag
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Lithuania Weekly: Major Wars Discussed
Kremlin-aligned media outlets still operating in Lithuania continued to cover the wars in Ukraine and Occupied Palestinian Territory in a highly biased manner. Outlets kept harshly criticising Jews and accusing them of mass killings, and condemning Ukrainians for their ‘own negligence’, by all means discouraging support for them. Specific outlets, as most of the time, further spreade the anti-government sentiments.
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Lithuania Weekly: Anti-Ukraine Sentiments
During this reporting week, Kremlin-aligned media outlets focused on criticising Ukraine and everything that’s related to this country. Outlets kept on minimising Ukraine’s capacities, proposing an incoming loss in the battlefield, blaming the country’s officials and armed forces for corruption and generally discouraging support for Ukraine, basing it on the fact, that, allegedly, it’s ineffective and other countries have already made the ‘smart and reasonable decision’.
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Lithuania Weekly: Lithuanian Banks in the Target
Antanas Kandrotas, better known for his nickname Celofanas (Cellophane), convicted of scams and fraud, earlier this year announced his willingness to participate in the presidential elections. However, his decision came across many challenges, and it was not state institutions that decided to block his way to the elections, but private banks: they refused to open an election account for Cellophane, and without it no one can participate in the elections. During the reporting week, Celofanas alone posted 13 posts on his Facebook page, 10 of them were harshly criticizing the banks and actively broadcasting anti-government sentiments for his followers.
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