Baltic countries close ranks against Russia
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(ES) Vienna, May 12, 2022
As Sweden and Finland prepare to join NATO in the face of "military-technical" threats from Moscow, AEJ member Roberto Sciarrone,...
Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war
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As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world
by Simon Schama
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The biter bit – official media and TV hacked by two anti-war Russian journalists
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(es) May 10, 22, Vienna
Two anti-war hackers working for one of the main Russian news-sites, Lenta.ru, fled the country and from abroad posted online...
What kind of Victory Day?
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(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
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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...
Debate about press situation in Hungary on World Press Freedom Day
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Discussion with Eszter Nagy (Union European Federalists) and Otmar Lahodynsky (AEJ) about the difficult situation of media freedom in Hungary on World Press Freedom...
Media summit focusses on fake news and Ukraine
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Lech, Austria, 24/04/22
by Otmar Lahodynsky, Honorary AEJ President
A seminar of media experts (in German/ DE) on the Arlberg pass was dedicated to the new threats to...
The Inconvenience of truth: Howard Jacobson
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"It is a terrible thing to be in possession of a truth that people don't want to hear," writes Howard Jacobson in a BBC...
Ukraine brutality continues – Day 60
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ES. Vienna, 24/04/22
The attack of Odesa which so many had feared began yesterday evening with the bombardment of an apartment block and the deaths...
Tucker Carlson and freedom’s enemies within
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ES Vienna, April 20, 2022
The war rages on, with Russian troops now thrusting forward on a 300-mile front into the Donbas and Ukraine's industrial...