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Lithuania's parliament on Tuesday rejected the conclusions of an ad hoc investigation commission on the public broadcaster LRT after 56 lawmakers voted in favor, 56 were against and three abstained.

An attempt on Lithuania's national broadcaster LRT's independence poses threat to the freedom of speech, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.

The director general of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) has turned to the head of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), saying that the Lithuanian public broadcaster's independence is under threat.

Journalist, philologist and litterateur Liudvikas Gadeikis, 63, has been elected chairman of the Council of the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian parliament's ad hoc investigative commission scrutinizing the finances of the public broadcaster Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) has until September 24 to complete its work.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday appointed Tomas Balžekas, a journalist and the owner of a magazine publishing business, Giedrė Švedienė, a former auditor general, and Norbertas Černiauskas, a historian, as new members of the LRT Council.

Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė, the new general manager of the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT, wants to appoint her long-term colleague from delfi.lt news portal Gytis Oganauskas as her new deputy.

Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė, the new general manager of the Lithuanian national radio and television (LRT), pledges to bring more transparency to the operations of the national broadcaster.

The council of the Lithuanian national radio and television LRT on Tuesday elected Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė, former editor-in-chief of delfi.lt news portal, as CEO of the national broadcaster, the council's chairman Žygintas Pečiulis confirmed.

Among applicants for director general of the Lithuanian national radio and television (LRT) are Audrius Siaurusevičius who headed the LRT for two terms, former editor-in-chief of delfi.lt news portal Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė and political reviewer Bernardas Gailius of the conservatives.

Žygintas Pečiulis, the head of the council of the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT, told the parliamentary commission scrutinizing LRT finances whether members of the council understood numbers of the budgets they had approved.

Council of the Lithuanian national radio and television LRT decided on Tuesday that candidates for LRT top executive will be required to have a master's degree.

Audrius Siaurusevičius, the director general of Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT), says that plans by Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), to make public LRT documents made available to lawmakers prove that the politician seeks to control the p...

Audrius Siaurusevičius, the director general of Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT), says that parliamentarians have set up a commission parliamentary scrutiny of the public broadcaster with the aim of leaking information to the media.

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Eighty Lithuanian parliamentarians asked additional questions to the council of the national broadcaster LRT, asking for more information about employee salaries, contracts with producer companies and lease of property.