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...
UK government ‘let lawyers bypass sanctions’ to help Putin ally sue journalist
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Documents seen by Open Democracy show UK firm got approval to engage with Wagner group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin
Rishi Sunak's Treasury allowed Russian oligarch Yevgeny...
Lahodynsky article on Ukraine and the China question
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Guest article in Die Presse, Vienna 24/02/24
No peace treaty should be imposed on Ukraine on Moscow's or Beijing's terms
By Otmar Lahodynsky
China's peace plan announced...
Otmar Lahodynsky – Gastartikel für Die Presse, 24-02-2024
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Kein Frieden um jeden Preis, Gastkommentar, die Presse , Freitag 24/02/24
Der Ukraine darf kein Friedensvertrag zu den Bedingungen Moskaus oder Pekings aufgezwungen werden.
Von Otmar Lahodynsky
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Biden in Kyiv promises support for “as long as needed”
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U.S. president makes surprise visit to Ukraine ahead of first anniversary of war
War anniversary seen as motivation for Russian offensive
Zelenskiy says...