Among a growing list of atrocities and human costs, Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine has taken an especially heavy toll on the region’s journalists and independent media. In the year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, journalists in both countries have faced a surge of attacks at the hands of Russian forces and […]

In the early morning hours of February 24, 2022, Ukraine woke to the new reality of full-scale war. For the vast majority of its people, missiles and tanks were not part of daily life, despite Russia’s previous seizure of Crimea and the ongoing war in the Donbass region. The full-scale invasion brought shockwaves across Ukraine, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) calls on Georgian MPs to scrap plans for “foreign agent” legislation that echoes similar laws in authoritarian states, such as that in neighboring Russia. While the bill’s authors have claimed that the law would be based on “principles of openness and transparency”, the measures risk being used as a weapon […]

Five years after the assassination of Já​​n Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová, Slovak judges are nearing their judgment in the retrial of the alleged mastermind of the murder of Aktuality.sk’s journalist and his fiancée.  While the hitmen and an intermediary of the February 2018 killing have already been convicted to long prison sentences, suspect Marián Kočner, […]