Battle of the airwaves - Baltics compete with Russia for hearts and minds


Russian-language Pervy Baltiysky Kanal (PBK) journalist Aleksejs Kondaurovs presents the news at a studio in Riga January 26, 2015. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

RIGA/VILNIUS (Reuters) - Responding to what they see as a wave of Kremlin propaganda over Ukraine, the governments of the three Baltic states are keeping a wary eye on pro-Moscow TV channels and stepping up their own broadcasts in Russian.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, all part of the Soviet Union until 1991, are nervous of a newly assertive Russia and fret that their large Russian-speaking minorities could be susceptible to Moscow's message.

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