Who are the Russian spies captured in the Baltic countries over the few past years, how are they recruited and in which other ways is Russia pursuing its agenda in Europe? These were some of the questions that a five-country team of investigative journalists led by the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism (Re:Baltica) sought to […]

After eight years of legal manoeuvring and many small steps toward building a centralized propaganda machine, Hungary’s government has put all its cards on the table and created a media behemoth of unheard size. And, to pave the way, the government has exempted its creation from almost all legal scrutiny and competition rules. There had […]

The gradual decay of media freedom in Hungary and other Eastern European countries is, by now, a very well-documented story. But the foreign press tends to focus on the most visible and easy-to-explain stories: the passage of a new law, the closure of a newspaper or the acquisition of large media companies by government-friendly businessmen. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined three other international press freedom groups in an open letter urging European Union officials to stand in support of media freedom in Hungary after an ally of President Viktor Orbán purchased the country’s last domestically owned independent television broadcaster. The takeover of Hír TV, announced on August 1, […]