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Media freedom
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Duma votes to require those preparing and distributing foreign news in Russia to have Moscow’s permission
The Duma on first reading has voted to approve amendments to the administrative code that would impose fines…
Jeansa: vehicle of oligarchs, Ukraine’s largest threat to media freedom
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other…
UK journalist who wrote about Crimean Tatar political prisoners fined, expelled from Crimea
The British journalist Madeline Roache, who wrote about human rights in the post-Soviet space, especially the political abuse…
How Estonian Public Broadcasting creates an alternative to Russian propaganda
The occupation of Crimea and the beginning of the war in Donbas made the Baltic countries reconsider their…
Over 200 journalists from 16 countries demand to release kidnapped Azerbaijani colleague
Over 200 journalists from 16 countries demand to free the Azerbaijani investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli of Meydan TV, who was…
Self-defense or a blow to democracy? Pro et contra arguments to Ukraine’s ban of Russian Internet companies
On May 15 Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko approved a decision of National Security Council (NSDC) to expand “personal…