Mykola Semena was accused by the Russian authorities of issuing public calls to violate Russia’s territorial integrity. In April 2016, the Russian FSB searched his house, and in May of this year, he was formally charged with publishing...
Ukrainians living in the Russian-occupied Donbas and those living in the rest of Ukraine exist in “two parallel realities” because the media in the Russian-controlled areas increasingly resembles those in North Korea while the media in...
The town has undergone change, with the main difference being that people have become more open with each other. Viktoria has also changed. After the fighting, many volunteers came to her town. Communication with them led the girl to...
Journalists must abide by the laws of Ukraine and enter occupied Donbas and Crimea only through Ukrainian checkpoints. “We will offend the international news corporations; they will have a poor opinion of us,” is one of the...
In a bid to stop online harassment, twitter adopted new policies in the last days of 2015. One of the new changes includes prohibition of “hateful conduct.” While the purpose of the new rules was to “protect the freedom...
Russian occupation officials have sent a letter to Crimean and Sevastopol media outlets directing that they are not to mention the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People because no such organization has received official registration. It thus...
Andriy Medvedko, also known under his alias “Manson”, is a 26-year-old far-right activist who has recently been named as the main suspect in the murder of Oles Buzina, a Ukrainian publicist who was known for his explicit pro-Russian...
Russian viewers of television news and current affairs are being told that their country has been targeted by the United States in a ‘western plot’ to bring their country to its knees, according to a monitoring report. These relentless...
“At the stroke of midnight” today, Denis Krosheyev, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Europe and Central Asia, says, “all but one Crimean Tatar language media outlets, which have come under a sustained assault since the...
On March the 13th several Russian FSB agents in Crimea have searched a home of the parents of a Ukrainian journalist Anna Andryevska, who is now living in Kyiv, being forced to move there from her home in Crimea since the beginning of...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
