Those we must not leave behind
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The UK government has failed in its task to rescue Afghans. Here MARTIN BRIGHT, Index on Censorship's editor-at-large speaks to members of a new...
Can Ukraine destroy Putin? The case for optimism.
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When the US government offered to help Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky evacuate as Russia was attacking Kyiv, Zelensky responded: "The fight is here. I...
Kurier account Wiener Zeitung devs English
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Kurier, Vienna. 20/03/2023
Wiener Zeitung: The most recent draft law primarily provides for an online medium, with 10 annual print editions. Transformation should be fully...
UN testimony on Russia playing the victim in Ukraine
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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...
Orbán’s latest assault on Hungarian journalists
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party have spent years turning Hungary’s media environment into their playground — not through outright repression,...
Libel Tourism – the law as a whore
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This essay from the London Review of Books gets to the heart of 'lawfare' - the use of wealth against democracy
by Peter Geoghegan, editor-in-chief,...
Georgia in turmoil over media freedom
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Paris, March 10, 2023
After three days of intense street protests in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, parliamentarians have scrapped government plans which plainly echo the...
Anger grows over Afghan journalists still stranded by Home Office inaction
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Press members living under the Taliban, and living uncertain lives in Pakistan, must be given clarity say campaign groups
Hundreds of Afghan journalists remain stranded...
Prizewinning UK tv channel reprieved from selloff
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Vienna, February 28, 2023
by Edward Steen
The innovative UK tv station Channel 4 News has been saved from being broken up and sold off by...
Drones and deadly changes to the rules of warfare
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Vienna, February 27, 2023
by Edward Steen
If not about Putin's latest nuclear rumblings, and new territorial threats to the rest of the old USSR, much...