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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...

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...

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...

by Edward Steen, Vienna, March 8, 2023 Julia Jofffe, originally from Russia, goes from strength to strength with her new magazine Puck in getting underneath...

By Edward Steen, Secretary-General in Bratislava, March 8, 2023 We sit waiting for her in what must be one of the brightest, most modern shopping...

News battleground becomes horribly personal Vienna, March 3, 2023 by Edward Steen, Secretary-General The Slovak National Criminal Agency has launched a criminal prosecution over death threats against...

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...

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...

Vienna, February 24, 2023 Coverage of the continuing war in Ukraine, as it enters its second year, has become complicated by rumours of possible Chinese...

by Edward Steen, Vienna, February 23, 2024 This morning  the Russian embassy in London found its street-view painted for half a kilometer in the Ukrainian...