Ukraine diaries – yes, it’s scary.
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by Edward Steen, Sec-Gen. Vienna March 29, 2022
The re-financing and transformation of the UK journalists' house magazine Press Gazette has seen some extraordinary contributions,...
Death of Madeleine Albright 1937 – 2022. RIP
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(es) Vienna, March 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUpvXl7IoOY&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour
Journalists being singled out for torture
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Russia's war crimes will now include torture of journalists - files being prepared
Kidnapped by Russian troops on 5 March, Nikita (his name is changed...
Lawyers intimidating journalists to protect oligarchs say MPS
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by John Hyde of the Law Society Gazette
Oligarchs trying to protect reputations instruct London lawyers because they are intimidatingly expensive, MPs told
Journalists who have...
RIP Erhard Busek – man dubbed “too decent for politics”
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(es) Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, March 15, 2022
The death of former Austrian Vice-Chancellor and OeVP leader Erhard Busek on the eve of his 81st...
Russia’s folly will drive change in the EU
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It's time for a more nuanced approach by France and Germany
by Alain Catzeflis,
Whipsnade, England,16 March 2022
The idea of Europe, like the idea of peace,...
Russia’s Channel 1 – sensational interruption of main tv news
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by Edward Steen, Vienna, March 15, 2022
If the Ukraine horror story is also being fought in the media, and pseudo-media, this action was something...
Putin’s War: Day 19
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♦ A senior employee of Russia’s state Channel One television has interrupted the channel’s main news programme with an extraordinary protest against Vladimir Putin’s...
Poet’s thoughts on a plane to Brussels
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by Alojz Peterle, Ljubljana, March 1, 2022
Row 18, sitting alone. Because of Covid? The war? Was no-one travelling? Pretty alone anyway, en route to...
Putin’s War, Day 13 NEWS IN BRIEF 08/03/22
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Putin's War day 13
by Edward Steen. Vienna, March 8, 2022
♦ KHM 11 this afternoon - Biden suspends oil imports from Russia
♦ ABC News...