When Russian tanks rolled over the border into Ukraine on February 24, the Kyiv Independent had been operating for just over three months. After the entire editorial staff were fired by owner of the Kyiv Post in early November 2021 over concerns about the newspaper’s editorial independence, 30 former journalists and editors regrouped and within […]

Read in English Als Reaktion auf die Entscheidung der EU, die Verbreitung der russischen Staatsmedien RT und Sputnik zu verbieten, hat das International Press Institute (IPI) folgende Erklärung abgegeben: Es besteht kein Zweifel an der Notwendigkeit, der Verbreitung von Desinformation und Propaganda entgegenzutreten, insbesondere angesichts der entsetzlichen russischen Invasion der Ukraine. Es ist auch klar, […]

On February 17, the Zambian Supreme Court ruled that the liquidation process of The Post newspaper was illegal, ordering it to be restarted in the High Court under a new judge to ensure “compliance with the relevant legal provisions”. The Post was shut down by officers of the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) in 2016, just […]

The IPI global network today urges Russian regulatory and government authorities to immediately reverse the decision to remove two of the country’s last remaining independent broadcasters from the airwaves and to halt the censorship of media reporting on the reality of the war in Ukraine. On March 1, Russia’s general prosecutor’s office ordered the country’s […]