Annual reports (updated) ahead of 22/11/2021 GA
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The translation service DeepL is excellent in case you do not yet know it. DeepL will translate a fairly long piece of text into...
Polish-Belarusian crisis – are the bad guys winning?
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Vienna, November 20, 2021 (updated 21/11/2021)
by Edward Steen
President Lukashenko's weaponisation of refugees desperate to reach the EU via Belarus' border with Poland is an...
Death of Swiss-Irish AEJ colleague Martin Alioth
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Dublin, Vienna. November 19, 2021
Eileen Dunne, our colleague in the Irish Section, writes:
"It is with great sadness that I write from Dublin to tell...
Facebook in the firing line at last….
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...but still busy messing with people's heads
Vienna/ Berlin. November 18, 2021
By Edward Steen and Tibor Macak
The new rock-star of whistleblowing, Frances Haugen, has now...
Kremlin ramps up fear of another Ukraine invasion
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Washington, November 17, 2021
by Askold Krushelnycky
Russia’s recent mass troop movements around Ukraine have raised fears that Moscow could be poised to invade Ukraine again...
Belarus weaponising human misery
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by Askold Krushelnycky in Washington
Belarusian dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, has been luring thousands of refugees from the Middle East since the summer with promises that...
Ukraine’s top prosecutor “pressured” Kyiv Post says sacked editor
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Brian Bonner, ex-chief editor of the Kyiv Post, has told The Ukrainian Weekly that after the his paper ran a critical story about Prosecutor General...
Far from silent – Kyiv Post reforms
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Despite being fired en masse last week by a new(ish) oligarch boss from Odessa the staff of the Kyiv Post have regrouped and are...
Battlers against fake news win top journalism prize
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Vienna, November 12, 2021
by Edward Steen
The Kaiser Maximilian Award for a project called "Fake News
The Austrian non-profit project "(#EuropagegenCovid19 / #EUmythbusters) has been awarded...
UK press shows it still has some guts
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London/ Vienna. November 11, 2021
by Edward Steen
The UK is by any standards in a parlous state since the election and re-election of the chancer...