The IPI global network today condemns a recent lawsuit by Ukrainian politician Andriy Portnov targeting leading Ukrainian media who referred to him as “pro-Russian”. The lawsuit is the latest in a series of complaints that Portnov filed against media. This week, a court in Kyiv ruled in favour of Portnov in this most recent lawsuit, […]

From a forensic look at a catastrophic shipwreck to the exposure of global disinformation networks and a search for unmarked migrant graves across Europe, remarkable examples of collaborative journalism shone at the IJ4EU Impact Awards 2024 on Thursday. Three international teams of journalists received equal recognition at the annual prize of IPI’s Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) […]

Armenia’s 2018 revolution marked a critical juncture for its path to democracy.  In April 2018, peaceful protests across Armenia, known as the Velvet Revolution, culminated in the resignation of the then Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan. Sargsyan’s long-standing semi- authoritarian rule came to an end, and Armenians elected Nikol Pashinyan, a protest leader, opposition MP, and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns Israel’s closure of Al Jazeera’s bureau in Ramallah and repeated its call on the Israeli authorities to allow media to report freely in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. At 3 a.m. on the morning of September 22, Israeli soldiers raided Al Jazeera’s Ramallah bureau during a live broadcast, […]