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| Editor-in-chief of Russia’s Sputnik Lithuania news agency detained at Vilnius airport | |
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| The editor-in-chief of the Lithuanian branch of Russia’s Sputnik news agency was detained on arrival to the Vilnius airport and labeled “a threat to the national security” of Lithuania. | The editor-in-chief of the Lithuanian branch of Russia’s Sputnik news agency was detained on arrival to the Vilnius airport and labeled “a threat to the national security” of Lithuania. |
| Marat Kasem himself told RIA-Novosti of his detention. The journalist said he was banned from entering Lithuania for the next five years. | Marat Kasem himself told RIA-Novosti of his detention. The journalist said he was banned from entering Lithuania for the next five years. |
| The editor-in-chief of Sputnik Lithuania arrived in the country on a business trip on Tuesday. | The editor-in-chief of Sputnik Lithuania arrived in the country on a business trip on Tuesday. |
| It’s not the first time that Russian journalists have faced persecution in the Baltic States. Last summer, Sputnik Latvia’s editor-in-chief, Valentin Rozentsov, was detained at Riga airport. He was held by police for 12 hours and interrogated before being released. | |
| Sputnik earlier said that pressure on its journalists has become a common occurrence in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia where local authorities are concerned about the popularity of the agency and the alternative view it provides. | |
| In neighboring Ukraine, the head of RIA-Novosti Ukraine, Kirill Vyshinsky, has been in custody for more than a year after being accused of treason while working as a journalist. | |
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