Resumen de Lithuania: : Retransmission of programmes of Russian-language Channels �RTR Planeta� and �NTV Mir Lithuania� suspended in Lithuania
On 2 April 2014, the Lietuvos radijo ir televizijos komisija (Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania - RTCL) temporarily suspended the retransmission of part of programmes of the Russian-language channel �RTR Planeta�. The basis for the suspension was the violation of Article 19 of the Law on the Provision of Information of the Republic of Lithuania during the programme �Vesti nedeli� (Weekly News), which was broadcast by the �RTR Planeta� in the beginning of March 2014. The programme concerned recent events in Ukraine. After consulting with the Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics, the RTCL found that during the programme in question, biased and tendentious information was disseminated, which was justifying violence against civilians, instigating hatred between Russians and Ukrainians and against USA and its allies, justifying military intervention in the sovereign state and annexation of part of its territory. Publication of such information is prohibited by the Law on the Provision of Information, Article 19 paragraphs 1(3) and 2.
