News In Brief

Vienna, April 13, 2023 by Edward Steen As predicted in these pages by Julia Ioffe, the documentary film about Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny last night (12/03)...

  Paris, 12/03/23 Explosion blasts awards ceremony for journalists, two dead,16 hurt, and three children The explosion took place at the Tabian Farhang centre in  the capital...

Vienna, March 11, 2023 Harrowing personal story of Russian journalist who broke ranks with Kremlin Marina Ovsyannikova challenged the Kremlin with a spectacular protest against the...

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...

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...

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...

U.S. president makes surprise visit to Ukraine ahead of first anniversary of war War anniversary seen as motivation for Russian offensive Zelenskiy says...

Senior official Vĕra Jourová in bid to help independent Russian media distribute content in their home country and evade heavy censorship European Commission vice-president in charge...

Sustaining Ukraine's army through a long, bloody conflict is a growing problem There is a sense of urgency in Nato. Jens Stoltenberg, the strait-laced Norwegian...

UK Treasury, then under now PM Rishi Sunak’s control, let Yevgeny Prigozhin circumvent sanctions to target Eliot Higgins, a British journalist investigating him. The UK...