Russia

Vienna, December 14, 2023 The intrepid Russian website Meduza website today includes  Reporters Sans Frontières' annual report: in 2023 Russia was world’s fifth-largest jailer of...

At last a successful slap-down of a SLAPP, in France. Less good news for colleagues in Russia, including another spell in a Russian prison...

es AEJ meeting in Albania: Focus on Western Balkans, Kosovo and Ukraine (Austrian Press Agency report). See also UK Section's European press echo. Crisis scenarios...

Safety of Journalists Weekly 19 - 25 September 2023 Alerts Member states Denmark: Private Address and call for attacks Against President of Danish Union of Journalists Published on...

by Elena Kostyuchenko of Meduza, Russia My reporting on the invasion of Ukraine led to an assassination order being issued – and then came the...

by Edward Steen, Vienna, September 8, 2023 The sneakier side of the Internet became clear long ago, when Polish priests began suing each other for...

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... ...

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...

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...

When the US government offered to help Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky evacuate as Russia was attacking Kyiv, Zelensky responded: "The fight is here. I...