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Lithuania Weekly: Pushing Doubt Over Trump and Defence Spending
This week, pro-Kremlin media in Lithuania framed Trump’s inauguration as a threat to Western unity, predicting instability for Ukraine and Lithuania. Lithuanian politicians were criticized as shortsighted, while the government’s plan to allocate 5–6% of GDP to defense was mocked, with claims it would strain other sectors.
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Lithuania Weekly: Criticism towards the government and elections
Over the past week, stories considering local politicians and the general work of the government gathered the most audience engagement while specifically analysing Kremlin-affiliated media in Lithuania.
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Latvia Weekly: Concerns over EU and RailBaltic
During the examined week the common narratives concerned policies in relation to Russian citizens residing in Latvia and the European Union.
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Estonia Weekly: Selfish politicians and Russian culture
This week, posts were mostly targeted towards the government and how the Centrist Party will be blamed for the failures of other politicians.
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Latvia Weekly: Russian Language and the Green Deal
In the examined week there were two predominant narratives in relation to Russian language use in Latvia
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Estonia Weekly: Russian orthodox church
This week’s posters focused on the Russian Orthodox Church in Estonia, and how with the government calling the church and patriarch a terrorist organization, they are calling all believers terrorists.
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Latvia Weekly: EU membership and national security
In the examined week the predominant themes among the content examined included the national security conception which limits media in the Russian language, the visit by Ursula von der Leyen and the benefits of European Union membership.
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Estonia Weekly: Vote of no confidence
This week most of the posts targeted Tallinn’s politicians, especially after the vote of no confidence and voting.
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Latvia Weekly: Economic ties with Russia
In the examined week, the content, in comparison to prior weeks, was not strictly limited to domestic issues, including such topics as continuing certain economic ties with Russia, the drone attacks by Iran and migration to the European Union.
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Estonia Weekly: Politicians refusal to borrow
This week most of the posts were focused on the economic issues in Estonia, how the current government is unable to govern well.
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