When the US government offered to help Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky evacuate as Russia was attacking Kyiv, Zelensky responded: "The fight is here. I...
by Edward Steen, Vienna, March 23, 2023
In a war it's rare to find anything like complete freedom (or truthfulness) of information from either side....
Kurier, Vienna. 20/03/2023
Wiener Zeitung: The most recent draft law primarily provides for an online medium, with 10 annual print editions. Transformation should be fully...
by Edward Steen, Vienna, March 22, 2023
In defiance of protests across Austrian society, including by the respected former federal President Heinz Fischer, the 320-year-old...
by Edward Steen, Vienna March 21, 2023
Putin’s private, sanctioned warlord, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 61, ex-jailbird, hot-dog salesman, now billionaire founder of the murderous Wagner Group, ...
Testimony to UN Security Council on Russian hate speech
By Timothy Snyder
Evidence to UN Security Council session on 14/03/23 called by Russian Federation to discuss...
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party have spent years turning Hungary’s media environment into their playground — not through outright repression,...
This essay from the London Review of Books gets to the heart of 'lawfare' - the use of wealth against democracy
by Peter Geoghegan, editor-in-chief,...
Vienna, April 13, 2023
by Edward Steen
As predicted in these pages by Julia Ioffe, the documentary film about Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny last night (12/03)...
Vienna, March 13, 2023
by Edward Steen
As the UK Conservative government lurches from one own-goal to another, its latest self-inflicted mishap concerns Gary Linaker, one...