A decade ago, Russian journalist Yulia Latynina thought dissidents who compared President Vladimir Putin’s rule to the Soviet times were ridiculous.
Project Exile: Russian journalist flees after car fire, faeces attack
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CATEGORY: Russia
Too dangerous to stay: Russia’s journalists are leaving the country
A country with the largest territory in the world and a turbulent modern history, Russia is home to one of the most difficult media landscapes. Independent media has been around for less than three years, and in that time censorship has been tightening its grip with new-found strength.
Illiberal democracies: Awash in media without plurality
Visitors to Eurasian countries — Turkey, Russia, Ukraine or, to a lesser extent, Azerbaijan — might be impressed by the sheer number of domestic television channels that offer news programming. But all the coverage doesn’t translate into media plurality.
The actions of the Russian Federation are jeopardising online freedoms everywhere
Index on Censorship joins 52 other international organisations to warn that the Russian Federation is pursuing policies that are significantly and rapidly encroaching online freedoms.
Censorship gone viral: The cross-fertilisation of repression
Censorship has cross-fertilised and gone viral infecting both democracies and their authoritarian counterparts.
Russia: Telegram block leads to widespread assault on freedom of expression online
53 international and Russian human rights, media and Internet freedom organisations, strongly condemn the attempts by the Russian Federation to block the Internet messaging service Telegram.
What does it take for a journalist to enter Crimea?
There’s currently no good way for journalists to travel to Crimea. Rather, it’s a balancing act where one has to choose the least bad solution
Russia: Telegram block leads to widespread assault on freedom of expression online
We strongly condemn the attempts by the Russian Federation to block the internet messaging service Telegram, which have resulted in extensive violations of freedom of expression and access to information
Media in exile: Eurasia’s last vestiges of freedom of expression
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can Dündar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyyet, one of Turkey’s most popular newspapers, was awaiting an appeal on his case in Turkey from Germany when the news of the coup d’etat in his homeland came. Scores of...
Sergey Smirnov: By banning Russian propaganda, the UK will help Putin in his campaign against press freedom
Why banning Russia Today will have consequences for press freedom in Russia.