AEJ – THE WEEK
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by Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, April 30, 2023
There is too much news, for me and no doubt for you too, loyal readers and colleagues...
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Kara-Mursa faces Stalinist 25 years sentence
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by Edward Steen, Vienna, April 18, 2023
Putin's latest unendurably cynical blow to the human spirit was delivered yesterday by sentencing to 25 years the...
WSJ reporter feted and free press defended
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by Edward Steen, Secretary-General, Vienna, April 18, 2023
The Wall Street Journal reports that Lynne Tracy, the newly-appointed U.S. ambassador to Russia, visited the WSJ's...
Can Ukraine destroy Putin? The case for optimism.
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When the US government offered to help Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky evacuate as Russia was attacking Kyiv, Zelensky responded: "The fight is here. I...
UK govt planned to allow Wagner SLAPP against BBC
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by Edward Steen, Vienna March 21, 2023
Putin’s private, sanctioned warlord, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 61, ex-jailbird, hot-dog salesman, now billionaire founder of the murderous Wagner Group, ...
UN testimony on Russia playing the victim in Ukraine
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Testimony to UN Security Council on Russian hate speech
By Timothy Snyder
Evidence to UN Security Council session on 14/03/23 called by Russian Federation to discuss...
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,...
Navalny feature film wins Oscar in LA – infuriating Putin fans
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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)...
“My ex-colleagues have made a pact with the Devil”
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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...