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On 17 September 2026, the Council of Lithuania's Communications Regulatory Authority (Ryšių reguliavimo tarnyba – RRT) found that the Lithuanian Radio and Television Centre (Telecentras) had received EUR 650 889 more than the cost-based amount due for services supplied in 2025 to the public broadcaster, Lithuanian National Radio and Television (Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija – LRT). Resolution No. TN-380 states that the overpayment, excluding VAT, is returnable to LRT. RRT announced the finding on 21 September. The services cover transmission of LRT television...

On 16 September 2026, the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (Lietuvos radijo ir televizijos komisija – LRTK) adopted Decision No. KS-85 requiring providers of public electronic communications networks or services to block access to twelve websites carrying the Russian radio broadcast Sputnik. Monitoring conducted between 21 and 26 August had identified online listening routes including radiosputnik.ru, radiopotok.ru and radio-online.by. The LRTK reasoned that, although Internet service providers did not themselves broadcast the programme, they facilitated its transmission and were...

On 2 June 2026, the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) adopted Law No. XV-981 amending the Law on Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), the country's public service broadcaster. President Gitanas Nausėda signed the new law on 12 June and it entered into force the following day, with parts of it deferred until 1 January 2027 and 1 January 2028. Passed by 77 votes to one after the opposition had left the chamber, the text had been prepared by a cross-party working group convened after widespread public protests in December 2025. The law changes the way LRT is governed...

In one of its last judgments in 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found a violation of an applicant’s rights both under Article 8 (right to privacy) and Article 10 (right to freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The ECtHR found that by disclosing the identity of the applicant on the day of his arrest, by exposing him to media coverage and by publishing several (online) press releases during the pre-trial investigation, the authorities had breached the applicant’s right to reputation under Article 8 ECHR. A ban imposed on the applicant...

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has delivered a judgment concerning restrictions on literature about same-sex relationships written specifically for children. The ECtHR found that measures taken against a children’s book of fairy tales had intended to limit children’s access to information depicting same-sex relationships as essentially equivalent to different-sex relationships. According to the ECtHR, the fairy tales had not contained sexually explicit content, nor had they promoted same-sex families over others. On the contrary, the fairy tales...