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...
Georgia in turmoil over media freedom
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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...
Anger grows over Afghan journalists still stranded by Home Office inaction
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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...
Navalny film: interview with Bellingcat man in exile
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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...
Strawberries with chocolate for a heroine
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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...