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Baltic News Network (BNN [1] [2] [3] ) is a Baltic news website. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] It was founded on September 1, 2010, [13] [14] providing online news portals, mainly reporting for and about the Baltic region, [15] Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. It is published by Latvia Baltic News Network. [16]

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History

BNN was founded on 1 September 2010 by Fred Zimmer [17] to counter perceived Russian disinformation, and emerged as a respected news source for the Baltic region. Based around predominantly selling stories to newspapers in the Baltic region, it has come to be recognized as an important political news source.[ citation needed ]

The Baltic News Network GmbH [14] is registered in Austria. [18] [19]

The Baltic News Network is a member of the Independent Media Association . [15]

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