EP President first visitor to Kiev from EU institutions
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by Edward Steen, Vienna March 3, 2022
In Kiev as the first leader from the EU institutions, EP President Roberta Metsola promised Ukrainian parliamentarians support...
Mass graves in Ukraine provoke global outrage
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(ES) Vienna, March 3, 2022
Ukraine's foreign minister today accused Russian forces of carrying out a "massacre" in the town of Bucha, near Kiev, while...
Portrait of the wanted gasman Dmitry Firtash
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(es) Vienna, April 3, 2022
This is a London Guardian "Long Read" portrait of the runaway Ukrainian gas billionaire Dmitry Firtash (right) and his cosy...
Putin’s troops on run leaving ruins and war crimes
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by Edward Steen, Vienna, April 3, 22.
The Ukrainian government says it has retaken over 30 towns and villages near Kyiv from Russian forces. Putin's...
Fukuyama on Putin’s existential war for a vision no-one wants
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es Vienna, April 2, 2022
Star UK television interviewer Krishnan Guru-Murthy, now reporting on the war in Ukraine, interviews the "end of history" man Francis...
Putin double-crosses 20,000 trying to leave ruined city
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by Edward Steen, Vienna, April 2, 2022
After weeks of street fighting, all that remains of much of Mariupol are burnt-out ruins. Under intense international...
Khodorkovksy – Putin a thug with only two options left
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"Realizes there can be no military solution"
es. Vienna, April 1, 2022
A month since Putin launched its invasion of Ukraine, Putin has come to understand...
Testimony of colleague from Mariupol – live-stream on 21st century’s Guernica
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ES Vienna, March 31, 2022
The Council of Europe's live stream of the testimony of the extraordinary Anna Murlykina editor-in-chief at CitySites Network, about the agonies...
SLAPPS – stepped-up campaign against abusive legislation
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from William Horsley, AEJ Special Representative for Media Freedom, London, 31/03/2
Last year, many organisations signed a statement calling on the Council of Europe (CoE) to issue...
Has all this suffering been about gas and oil-shale?
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by Edward Steen S-G. Vienna, March 30, 2022
While the world and its markets see a glimmer of light after yesterday's talks in Turkey, there...