Death threats to public tv moderator in Bratislava
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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
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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
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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”
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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”
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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
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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
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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...
FRONTLINE and AP – exclusive new evidence of Russian atrocities
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New documentary: FRONTLINE and The Associated Press go inside Russia’s war on Ukraine, tracing a pattern of atrocities committed by Russian troops with a focus...
Unrest among 220,000 Russian reservists drafted to fight in Ukraine
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es. Vienna, October 24, 2020
from the Kiev Independent:
More than 220,000 Russian reservists have been drafted to fight in Ukraine since Putin’s declaration of “partial...
Russia and USA – rare talks about nukes
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es. Vienna, October 22, 2022
The London Guardian today published sketchy details of a rare discussion between the Kremlin and Washington about the war in...