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Navalny film: interview with Bellingcat man in exile

by Edward Steen, Vienna, March 8, 2023 Julia Jofffe, originally from Russia, goes from strength to strength with her new magazine Puck in getting underneath...

Strawberries with chocolate for a heroine

By Edward Steen, Secretary-General in Bratislava, March 8, 2023 We sit waiting for her in what must be one of the brightest, most modern shopping...

UK government ‘let lawyers bypass sanctions’ to help Putin ally sue journalist

Documents seen by Open Democracy show UK firm got approval to engage with Wagner group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin Rishi Sunak's Treasury allowed Russian oligarch Yevgeny...

Russia’s gruesome war on Ukraine one year on

by Edward Steen, Vienna, February 23, 2024 This morning  the Russian embassy in London found its street-view painted for half a kilometer in the Ukrainian...

Biden in Kyiv promises support for “as long as needed”

U.S. president makes surprise visit to Ukraine ahead of first anniversary of war War anniversary seen as motivation for Russian offensive Zelenskiy says...

EU official calls for a “Radio Free Russia”

Senior official Vĕra Jourová in bid to help independent Russian media distribute content in their home country and evade heavy censorship European Commission vice-president in charge...

Scraping the barrel: Europe’s armouries

Sustaining Ukraine's army through a long, bloody conflict is a growing problem There is a sense of urgency in Nato. Jens Stoltenberg, the strait-laced Norwegian...

Revealed: how UK government helped Putin ally sue British journalist

UK Treasury, then under now PM Rishi Sunak’s control, let Yevgeny Prigozhin circumvent sanctions to target Eliot Higgins, a British journalist investigating him. The UK...

Petition to Austrian Parliament – in original German

Wien, am 25 Jänner, 2023 Appell: Keine Zustimmung für das Gesetz zur Einstellung der „Wiener Zeitung“ als Tageszeitung und zur demokratiepolitisch fragwürdigen Medienausbildung Die „Wiener Zeitung“...

Austrian Parliament petitioned to save Wiener Zeitung

PETITION TO ALL AUSTRIAN MPs OVER FUTURE OF WIENER ZEITUNG es Vienna, January 25, 2023. In common with other European governments, Austria is progressively suffocating...

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