Russia

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...

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, ...

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...

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party have spent years turning Hungary’s media environment into their playground — not through outright repression,...

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,...

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)...

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...