Events

  Journalists’ freedom in the crosshairs by Kyriakos Pieridis, AEJ Media Freedom Representative, Nicosia 11/04/23 Nicosia's Municipal Theatre last Wednesday was packed for the play by Times...

When the US government offered to help Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky evacuate as Russia was attacking Kyiv, Zelensky responded: "The fight is here. I...

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...

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)...

News battleground becomes horribly personal Vienna, March 3, 2023 by Edward Steen, Secretary-General The Slovak National Criminal Agency has launched a criminal prosecution over death threats against...

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...

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...

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

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...

Modern Pythian Games starts the first online poetry and painting competition for the Pythian Games, and the Delhi Pythian Council is the first state...