How our man in Kabul (and his family) made it to Bavaria
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by Mark Porter in Cannes ♦ August 13, 2022 (UPDATES - see links)
Almost a year to the day since the Allies effectively handed Afghanistan...
Marina Ovsyannikova facing possible 15 years in gaol
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es Vienna, 10/08/22
Russian authorities have raided the home of Marina Ovsyannikova, 44, the former Channel 1 state TV producer fined for her famous on-air...
Mounting death toll of colleagues in Ukraine
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Following the start of Putin's aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, partner organisations of the CoE Safety of Journalists Platform have been documenting...
AEJ backs call to stop Erdogan’s Putin-style censorship
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https://ipi.media/international-groups-call-on-turkeys-parliament-to-reject-the-disinformation-bill-as-a-tool-of-digital-censorship/
Ukraine: the painful path that must be taken
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by Anna Yavorska
Since the Revolution of Dignity* eight years ago, my country and all its people embarked on a historic journey. Those who subsequently...
Orbán evokes ghost of Goebbels and courts EU isolation
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by Mark Porter
Cannes, July 28, 2022 (updated 01/08/22)
Viktor Orbán, 59, veteran Hungarian prime minister and Putin cheerleader, is hardly renowned for his restraint. His...
Six months on – a reporter describes how it has been
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‘It has been like hell’: life under fire in Donbas
from Guardian reporter Peter Beaumont, six months in Ukraine
“I sleep in my clothes so I...
Odessa – will grain at last relieve world hunger?
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es Vienna, July 23, 2022
Maybe not. Just after yesterday's supposedly landmark deal in Istanbul to start shipping millions of tons of grain to a...
Meduza – behind the scenes at the Kremlin
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es Vienna, July 22, 2022
Meduza, banished along with its staff to Lavia, remains one of the best sources of information on Russia. Today it...
Google banned in occupied Ukraine
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es Vienna, July 22, 2022
Russia's clampdown on independent news has been remarkably effective in creating a parallel reality/ unreality. Now the same method is...