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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....

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...

  Paris, 12/03/23 Explosion blasts awards ceremony for journalists, two dead,16 hurt, and three children The explosion took place at the Tabian Farhang centre in  the capital...

Vienna, March 11, 2023 Harrowing personal story of Russian journalist who broke ranks with Kremlin Marina Ovsyannikova challenged the Kremlin with a spectacular protest against the...