The Coverage of annexation of Crimea in local Russian-language weeklies in Lithuania: information, disinformation, propaganda?
ENThe Revolution of Dignity in Kiev and Russia’s reaction to it (annexation of Crimea, support of separatists in the Donbas region) changed geopolitical situation in Eastern Europe. The events of 2013-14 marked critical changes in the post-Soviet area. Russia shows that it is ready to fight for the zone of influence not only literally, but also really. The 2014 events in Ukraine became a geopolitical signal. The territories of the former Soviet republics are the most important area for the Russian Federation, as Moscow still tends to feel like a master in the post-Soviet space. However, today’s Lithuania and the Russian Federation belong to different geopolitical areas. Moscow lives in its neoimperial illusions. Lithuania got its place in the European Union and the NATO, which empowered its position as a part of the Western World [p. 72].
