Skip to content

Lithuania

June 3rd - June 9th, 2024 | Week 40 | Month 10

Lithuania Weekly: European Parliament Election

Lithuanian media with a pro-Kremlin bias focused heavily on domestic issues this week.

by Urtė Andriukaitytė

Main narratives:

  • General anti-government sentiments;
  • Doubts about the transparency of democratic elections;
  • Discrediting the elections in general;
  • The incompetence of the current government.

Overview:

Lithuanian media with a pro-Kremlin bias focused heavily on domestic issues this week. During the analysed period, the European Parliament elections took place, and they took up most of the media coverage. Considering these elections, a few things were the main highlights: the poor turnout, explained by The Chairperson of The Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Lithuania (CEC), that election fatigue got in the way (two rounds of the Presidential elections in the past month); the victory of conservatives party, that is always heavily criticised by the Kremlin-aligned actos; and Petras Gražulis, a controversial Lithuanian politician, former Member of the Seimas, winning a seat at the European Parliament. Finally, elections were concluded with general doubts about their transparency while questioning their results, discrediting elections generally, claiming that they have no effect and “everything is decided prior”, and finalised with anti-government sentiments, criticising those who are in charge and already targeting those who are planning to be shortly.

Weekly Reports
Riga

Latvia Weekly: How Kremlin Channels Paint Latvia as Collapsing

March 24th - March 30th, 2025

Tallinn Orthodox Churxh

Estonia Weekly: Allegations of Discrimination Against Russians

March 24th - March 30th, 2025

Seimas

Lithuania Weekly: Potential Emergence of the Fifth Column

March 17th - March 23rd, 2025

Latvia

Latvia Weekly: Kremlin-Aligned Channels Amplify Anti-Russian Narratives

March 17th - March 23rd, 2025

NATO

Estonia Weekly: Speculations on National Defence Issues

March 17th - March 23rd, 2025

Military

Latvia Weekly: Kremlin-Backed Disinformation Portrays Latvia as Aggressor

March 10th - March 16th, 2025

Tallinn

Estonia Weekly: Concerns about Domestic and Foreign Instability

March 10th - March 16th, 2025

Remigijus Žemaitaitis

Lithuania Weekly: Žemaitaitis' Scandal Downplayed by Pro-Kremlin Media

March 3rd - March 9th, 2025

putin

Lithuania Weekly: Kremlin-Aligned Media Exploits Trump-Zelensky Tensions

February 24th - March 2nd, 2025

Latvia Weekly: Pro-Kremlin Disinformation Paints the Baltics as NATO Pawns

March 3rd - March 9th, 2025

Don't miss a story.

We publish stories that change laws, lives, minds and the world. Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigations delivered to your inbox.