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Media groups urge Turkish parliament to block new law

es. Vienna, October 8, 2022 Press Freedom Groups Condemn Turkey Disinformation Bill  Law designed to criminalise free flow of information Twenty two international media freedom, freedom of...

End of the road for world’s oldest daily newspaper?

es, Vienna, 08 October, 2022 Funded in 1703, the historic liberal daily Wiener Zeitung has survived censorship, obliteration of the Austrian Empire, civil war, 1914-18,...

Putin’s 70th birthday present – crushing of free press almost complete

ES Vienna, October 7, 2022 Reporters Sans Frontieres tells it like it is.

Dozens feared dead after Russian strike on civilian convoy near Zaporizhzhia

A civilian convoy of cars heading to pick up relatives trying to flee Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine has been hit by Russian forces near...

Raped for reading his own poem: life in Russia

On September 26, Russian police showed up at the home of 31-year-old Moscow poet Artem Kamardin, as we reported yesterday. After ransacking the apartment, officers...

Corrupt Russian police beat and rape poet

Russian activist and poet Artyom Kamardin has been beaten and raped by Moscow police, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported on Monday. A source told the outlet that...

War comes home to Russians as thousands flee conscription

es Vienna, September 25, 2022 Meduza, the amazing Russian publication-in-exile, reported last night on what Putin has now inflicted on his own people, as well...

Day 212: Russian journalists among those being press ganged into Putin’s army

Many Russians detained while protesting against President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilisation have been handed draft papers while in custody, the OVD-Info rights group...

CoE joins condemnation of Putin threats + Platform alerts

es Vienna, September 22, 2022 Council of Europe Secretary General rejects so-called ‘referendums’ in occupied Ukrainian territories Now without Russia on board, the Council of Europe ...

Is Orbán finally to get come-uppance for crossing EU red lines?

by Edward Steen, Secretary-General.  Vienna, September 18, 2022 European Commissioner Hahn (Budget and Administration) has for years demonstrated the rarely-admitted truth that the EU Commission...

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