Artem Filatov is a St. Petersburg-based political journalist for the independent radio station Echo of Moscow. His work includes the coverage of major protests and rallies in St. Petersburg as well as interviews with prominent figures. Filatov also works as a freelance correspondent for Scandinavian media. IPI recently interviewed Filatov over the phone on Russia’s […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today criticised an Israeli military raid on the offices of a broadcasting station in Ramallah early Saturday over the alleged distribution of material inciting terrorism and it urged authorities to return media equipment and documents that were seized. The raid on the West Bank headquarters of Palmedia, which provides broadcast […]

Verbal abuse and veiled threats against journalists online have become so common that one imagines trolls are constantly lurking under a journalist’s desk, ready to pop up as soon as he or she presses “publish”. For the last three years, IPI has examined the psychological toll that extreme cases of online hatred take on journalists, […]

A coalition of international free expression groups and professional journalist organizations today welcomed a ruling by a court in Istanbul freeing seven of 11 journalists held nearly nine months in a criminal case targeting independent daily Cumhuriyet. But they expressed deep concerns over the case, saying it should not have been brought, and demanded the […]