Press Freedom

"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...

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...

ES. Vienna, April 23, 2021 Hard to believe the heroics not just of Ukraine but of its newly-minted Kyiv Independent and its young staff, their...

 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...

(es) Vienna, April 17, 2022 updated 18/04 The Russian media, now subject to exile and bankruptcy, and/or up to 15 years in prison for calling...

by Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, April 17, 2022 The irritations of the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, will be familiar to political stars of the past,...

...or anyway the whole of Twitter. But why stop there? by Edward Steen, Vienna, Good Friday, 2022 There is something uncanny about Elon Musk, 50, for...

by Edward Steen, S-G. Vienna, April 13, 2022 One of the most significant Russian opposition leaders was yesterday jailed for - nominally -  15 days...

"Deep gloom has descended on this country" Interview, Vienna, March 31, 2022 Freelance journalist Christopher Resch works for Reporters Without Borders, which a few days ago...

On 17 March 2022, the Council of Europe adopted a Recommendation on promoting a favourable environment for quality journalism in the digital age (CM/Rec(2022)4). The CoE called...