Germany To Join ‘Fake News’ Battle In Baltics With New Russian-Language Media

Germany will help Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to set up Russian-language media outlets to counter the alleged “systematic disinformation” coming from Russian channels broadcasting in the region, according to Foreign Office spokesperson Martin Schaefer. The main goal of the initiative, according to Schaefer, is to create of Russian-language radio and TV channels, which will be “attractive to Russian speakers living in the three Baltic states,” in order to produce news “in a different way” from Russian outlets.