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About a third of people living in Lithuania prefer to get news from the Russian mass media, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. These results were shown by a survey conducted by the Market Research Center.
According to the study, 50% of the republic's residents turn to the national media. The other half prefers exclusively foreign ones. Slightly less than 30% of Lithuanians are happy to read Russian news websites.
Most often, news is monitored via the Internet, television and radio are not far behind. Print media are least read.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that numerous violations of the rights of journalists in the Baltic republics were raising concern. In particular, the Lithuanian deputies called for blocking access to the Sputnik-Lithuania website, the editor-in-chief of the agency, Marat Kasem, was expelled from the country with a five-years-old ban. The Latvian authorities are blocking the broadcast of Russian channels. At the end of 2020, the special services detained seven employees of the Sputnik-Latvia and Baltnews websites.
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