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by Patrick Cockburn “Take a charitable view,” was the advice of Sir Wilmot Lewis, the veteran correspondent of The Times in Washington in the last...

Discussion with Eszter Nagy (Union European Federalists) and Otmar Lahodynsky (AEJ) about the difficult situation of media freedom in Hungary on World Press Freedom...

by Faisal Alipasha in Kabul At least 50 killed after suicide bomber targets last Friday prayers of the month Eyewitnesses describe 'dead bodies everywhere'...

by Mark Porter, Edinburgh April 27 2022 Warning comes as Moldovan president blames ‘pro-war forces’ for explosions in separatist-controlled region Two explosions destroyed two radio...

Medien unter Beschuss – im Krieg und Frieden Ein Seminar von Medienexperten am Arlberg widmete sich den neuen Bedrohungen der Medienfreiheit – vor allem durch...

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 22, 2022 Putin's "technical" operation in Ukraine has entered the territory of Dante's Inferno, or of a huge psychiatric clinic. The Russian...

 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...