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The documentary film ‘War 2020. Russia’s Information Aggression’ by Lithuanian filmmakers Martynas Starkus and Jonas Banys was shown at the Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the European Union on 14 December. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius, who attended the screening, underlined that Russia aims at undermining trust among members of the transatlantic family, shatter basic values of the Western world  - democracy and respect for human rights, and to conceal violations of international law under the guise of different opinion by using information aggression against the West.

The minister has said that to effectively resist Russia’s information aggression, the European Union, NATO and the entire international community have to act together.

During the discussion moderated by the Executive Director of the Brussels Office of the German Marshall Fund Ian O. Lesser, Linkevičius noted that the documentary film ‘War 2020 Russia’s Information Aggression’ revealed principles of propaganda against the West, methods and sources, which would help provide a more clear understanding of the actual situation and would be Lithuania’s further contribution to countering Russia’s information aggression.

“You will encounter scarcely anything new here. Things are explained in simple words,” said Starkus who co-authored the film. His colleague Jonas Banys added: “Even though the target audience is Lithuanians, the goal is to show that propaganda is disseminated not only in Lithuania, but in the whole Europe”.

The event was co-organized by the Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU and the German Marshall Fund.

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