Respublika (Lithuanian newspaper)

{{Short description|Lithuanian newspaper}}

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| name = Respublika

| logo = Respublika logo.svg

| image = Respublika, April 16, 2021.png

| caption = Respublika print edition on April 16, 2021

| type = Daily newspaper

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| publisher = Respublika Publications Group

| editor =

| chiefeditor = Vitas Tomkus

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| foundation = 1989

| political = Conservatism, euroskepticism, nationalism, antiglobalism

| language = Lithuanian, Russian

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| headquarters = Vilnius, Lithuania

| circulation = 55 000 (2005)

| sister newspapers = Vakaro Žinios, Žalgiris

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| website = {{URL|http://www.respublika.lt/}}

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Respublika ({{literal translation|Republic}}) is a right-wing Lithuanian newspaper, published since September 16, 1989. Since January 7, 1991, it has published a Russian language edition (Республика).{{cite web| url=http://www.respublika.lt/lt/naujienos/lietuva/ziniasklaida/nuo_aviatoriaus_iki_redaktoriaus/ |title=Nuo aviatoriaus iki redaktoriaus |publisher=Respublika |date=2009-08-22 |accessdate=2009-10-21}}

In 1993 one of the founders, deputy editor-in-chief, and investigative journalist Vitas Lingys was shot to death in Vilnius after several death threats.{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7D61E3DF930A25753C1A965958260&sec=&pagewanted=print|title=Lithuanian reporter is slain|work=The New York Times|accessdate=2006-03-21|date=1993-10-13}} Lingys wrote about organized crime and published several revealing stories about "Vilnius Brigade" crimes. Boris Dekanidze, the head of the Vilnius Brigade in Lithuania, was found guilty of this crime{{cite web|last=Navazelskis|first=Ina|url=http://archives.cjr.org/year/95/4/lithuania.asp|title=Lithuania: a killing and a crusade|publisher=Columbia Graduate School of Journalism|accessdate=2006-03-25|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060203203422/http://archives.cjr.org/year/95/4/lithuania.asp|archivedate=2006-02-03}} and sentenced to death.{{cite web|year=|url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/refugee/document.do?id=91AA18EA6858370F802569A500714D4A|title=Amnesty International concerns in Europe May - December 1994|publisher=Amnesty International|accessdate=2006-03-25}} He became the last person to be executed in July 1995 before the death sentence was abolished.[http://www.handsoffcain.info/bancadati/schedastato.php?idcontinente=20&nome=lithuania "Lithuania"], handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-21.

According to the TNS Gallup data, Respublika publication group used to be dominating in the country's press market. Newspaper by Respublika publication group (dailies Respublika (Lithuanian and Russian), Vakaro žinios, Šiaulių kraštas and Vakarų ekspresas) were read in average by 79.2% of all newspaper readers in early 2008.{{cite web| url=http://www.balsas.lt/naujiena/189723/tns-gallup-respublikos-skaitomumas/rubrika:naujienos-verslas-reklamairziniasklaida |title="TNS Gallup": "Respublikos" skaitomumas |date=2008-04-03 |publisher=balsas.lt |accessdate=2009-02-06|language=lt}} It became a weekly newspaper, rather than daily one starting from 2014.[http://www.truelithuania.com/respublika-daily-becomes-weekly-4182“Respublika” daily becomes weekly (Accessed 2022-03-31)] According to the Lithuanian digital journalist and a former advisor to the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Skirmantas Malinauskas who worked in the newspaper for a short time in the past, Respublika.lt falls out of the top 15 of the most readable Lithuanian portals as of 2022.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzA9VJrWugM&t=2281 Putino šunys (in Lithuanian) Accessed 2022-03-31]

Circulation of the Lithuanian edition of Respublika reached 38,000 copies on Mondays–Thursdays and 55,000 copies on Fridays–Saturdays in 2005.{{cite web| url=http://www.vtv.lt/naujienos/spauda/stulbinanti-dienrascio-respublika-prenumeratos-akcija-3.html |title=Stulbinanti dienraščio Respublika prenumeratos akcija |accessdate=2009-02-06 |date=2005-10-04 |publisher=vtv.lt|language=lt}} In March 2007 26-year-old Ramunė Vaičiulytė became Respublika's first female editor-in-chief.{{cite web| url=http://www.vtv.lt/naujienos/spauda/respublikos-redaktore-tapo-ramun-vaiciulyt.html |title="Respublikos" redaktore tapo Ramunė Vaičiulytė |date=2007-03-18 |publisher=vtv.lt |accessdate=2009-02-06|language=lt}}