End of the road for world’s oldest daily newspaper?
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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
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ES Vienna, October 7, 2022
Reporters Sans Frontieres tells it like it is.
Dozens feared dead after Russian strike on civilian convoy near Zaporizhzhia
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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...
Colleagues in the news, media stuff maybe worth listening to
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Vienna, September 17, 2022
by Edward Steen, S-G
Legendary German tv journalist Fritz Pleitgen, "Mr WDR," was for decades one of the most familiar and trusted...