by Edward Steen, Vienna, April 18, 2023
Putin's latest unendurably cynical blow to the human spirit was delivered yesterday by sentencing to 25 years the...
by Edward Steen, Vienna April 21, 2023
Despite protests from all over Europe and by Austria's leading figures, the liberal Wiener Zeitung, the world's oldest-surviving...
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...
by Edward Steen, Secretary-General, Vienna, April 18, 2023
The Wall Street Journal reports that Lynne Tracy, the newly-appointed U.S. ambassador to Russia, visited the WSJ's...
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....
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...