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Ukraine – into the third month

(es) Vienna, May 10, 2022 Russian forces conducting ‘storming operations’ on Azovstal steel plant  The shambles of Victory Day in Moscow yesterday has yet to provide...

DW suggests Putin stirring up trouble in Balkans

es Vienna, June 9, 2022 Slavic tradition and overt Russian backing (including by the Orthodox Church) have encouraged Serbia to stir up dissent and to...

EUROPE DAY

Europe is celebrating today. Until a few months ago we were celebrating the Peace that we have been celebrating for 70 years. Now the peace and...

What kind of Victory Day?

(es) Vienna, May 9, 2022  UPDATED MIDNIGHT “They made a desert,” the Roman historian Tacitus wrote of Rome’s warfare tactics, attributing the words to the...

Digital Authoritarianism at War: Controlling Russia’s Information Space

by Laura Howells and Laura A. Henry What are the implications of Russia’s crackdown on internet freedom within its borders? How does Moscow’s digital authoritarianism...

Britain’s oligarch problem

FT documentaries available on YouTube often give more coherent accounts of some business scandal or significant economic development than, for example, the celebrity obsessed...

Britain’s Napoleonic Posturing will be Exposed by Battlefield Reality

by Patrick Cockburn “Take a charitable view,” was the advice of Sir Wilmot Lewis, the veteran correspondent of The Times in Washington in the last...

Debate about press situation in Hungary on World Press Freedom Day

Discussion with Eszter Nagy (Union European Federalists) and Otmar Lahodynsky (AEJ) about the difficult situation of media freedom in Hungary on World Press Freedom...

CoE Secretary General: Media should be able to report free from attacks and intimidation, including in times of war

A new report issued by 15 media freedom organisations partners to the Council of Europe’s Platform for the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists shows that the number of alerts...

Moldova Diary: the Russians are coming

by Paula Erizanu (from the Financial Times Weekend section) ‘No one in Chisinau believed a real war might re-emerge here. That has changed’ I am...

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