Lithuania on Wednesday banned a Russian-language television channel for three months, accusing it of propaganda while covering events in Ukraine. The Baltic state's media watchdog suspended RTR Planeta for "inciting discord, warmongering, spreading biased information", spokeswoman Birute Kersiene said.
"This programme has repeatedly spread such information, therefore its broadcast was suspended for three months," Kersiene told AFP. The channel is registered in Sweden but its producers are Russia-owned media company, VGTRK, she said.
Contacted by AFP in Moscow, an RTR Planeta official said Wednesday they had "no comment" to make.