Tag Russia
31 Jul

“Good Russians are no less dangerous” – Journalist Iryna Avramenko about Russian opposition media.

Journalist Iryna Avramenko exposes how Russian liberal media echo imperial propaganda, and why Ukraine’s info war is also a cultural fight.

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22 Jul

“I can’t imagine conditions that will be acceptable for Ukraine” – The Bell’s Irina Malkova and Peter Mironenko on the value of truth in the face of state propaganda

In an exclusive interview, Irina Malkova and Peter Mironenko, co-founders of The Bell, speak about press freedom under Putin, the rise of state propaganda, building resilient journalism in exile, and their refusal to surrender truth.

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24 Apr

ECPMF demands the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich

The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) is dismayed by the decision of a Moscow appellate court to once again reject the appeal of imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to end his pretrial detention.

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5 Apr

Partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform call on Russia to free Evan Gershkovich immediately

Partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform, a Europe-wide system of public alerts to flag and remedy serious threats to media freedom, call on the Russian authorities to release journalist Evan Gershkovich immediately and to drop all charges against him.

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9 Dec

Putin’s Russia: How propaganda bolsters corruption

To mark International Anti-Corruption Day, we interviewed Elena Romanova, an investigative journalist who has focused on corruption cases for more than 22 years from her basis in Rostov-on-Don.

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7 Dec

Latvia: Media regulator urged not to revoke Dozhd license pending court review

The partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today express serious concern over the decision by Latvia’s National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) to revoke the broadcast license of exiled independent Russian TV station Dozhd.

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29 Sep

“There should not be such an amount of militaristic and aggressively thinking people in one country” – interview with a Russian Journalist-in-Residence

As part of our series of interviews with ECPMF Journalists-in-Residence, we spoke to one of our journalists about the media freedom landscape in Russia and the working situation as an exiled journalist.

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15 Aug

“Both journalists and filmmakers are in danger because of their expressions about reality” – Interview with journalist and filmmaker Evdokia Moskvina

As part of our series of interviews with ECPMF Journalists-in-Residence, we spoke to Evdokia Moskvina about her career as a journalist and a documentary filmmaker.

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15 Mar

Amidst war in Ukraine, EU must provide emergency visas for Russian & Belarusian journalists fleeing repression

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14 Mar

Solidarität aus Sachsen: Schutz für Journalistinnen und Journalisten aus der Ukraine, Belarus und Russland

ECPMF stockt mit Hilfe der sächsischen Landesregierung Journalists-in-Residence-Programm um 100.000 Euro auf.

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