The summer issue of Index magazine concentrated its efforts on the developing situation between Russia and Ukraine and consequential effects around Europe and the world. We decided to give voice to journalists, artists and dissidents who chose to...
Artists must unite in their opposition to authoritarian regimes and there should be an end to the blanket boycott of Russian culture
The news coming in from Belarus, Brazil, Hong Kong and Russia is devastating, writes our CEO Ruth Smeeth
The chair of the Belarusian Association of Journalists says reporting is harder than ever because of government crackdowns and war in neighbouring Ukraine
Russian liberal politician, economist and professor Grigory Yavlinsky has long been a thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin. As the founder of the Russian United Democratic Party (Yabloko), which was the leading opposition party in post-Soviet...
The latest annual report from the Council of Europe safety of journalists platform makes for worrying reading on media freedom
We all want to protect each other from seeing the worst of humanity but we have no right not to be offended
Kateryna Yegorushkina is a Ukrainian children’s writer and publisher from a town close to Kyiv. Here, in our second video on the state of free expression in Ukraine, Kateryna speaks of her own situation as a writer and mother. She also draws...
A desperate Ukrainian mother has written details of who to contact in the event of her death on her young daughter’s back
Despite the huge risks attached to defying Putin, a handful of Russians are still speaking up. We profile six here