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Anger grows over Afghan journalists still stranded by Home Office inaction

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

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

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...

Death threats to public tv moderator in Bratislava

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...

UK government ‘let lawyers bypass sanctions’ to help Putin ally sue journalist

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...

Ukraine – the China question

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...

Biden in Kyiv promises support for “as long as needed”

U.S. president makes surprise visit to Ukraine ahead of first anniversary of war War anniversary seen as motivation for Russian offensive Zelenskiy says...

EU official calls for a “Radio Free Russia”

Senior official Vĕra Jourová in bid to help independent Russian media distribute content in their home country and evade heavy censorship European Commission vice-president in charge...

Scraping the barrel: Europe’s armouries

Sustaining Ukraine's army through a long, bloody conflict is a growing problem There is a sense of urgency in Nato. Jens Stoltenberg, the strait-laced Norwegian...

Revealed: how UK government helped Putin ally sue British journalist

UK Treasury, then under now PM Rishi Sunak’s control, let Yevgeny Prigozhin circumvent sanctions to target Eliot Higgins, a British journalist investigating him. The UK...

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