November 24, 2016/ By Tass The resolution adopted by the European Parliament on combating other countries’ propaganda, including Russia, serves as evidence of the crisis of the Western system of values, Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Russian Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee, wrote on his blog. “Extreme demonization of Russia in this document has its…
June 7, 2016/ By Sputniknews According to the ombudsman, this political correctness is not always maintained in Russian media. “For many years I worked in the United States, the newspapers there do write with different emphases — some are more supportive of Republicans, some support Democrats, but they write politically correct things in relation to the authorities,” Dolgov said on the sidelines of the New Era…
March 30, 2016 / By Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty Latvian authorities shut down Russia’s pro-Kremlin news site Sputnik on March 29, calling it a “propaganda tool” and drawing an immediate rebuke from Moscow. Latvia’s local domain registry suspended Sputnik’s right to hold the news site Sputniknews.lv, which was established only a few weeks ago to…
20 November 2015 / By Radio Free Europe – Radio Liberty The OSCE’s representative on freedom of the media, Dunja Mijatovic, has deplored the decision of Russian authorities to label the nongovernmental organization Glasnost Defense Foundation (GDF) as a “foreign agent.” In a November 20 statement, Mijatovic said GDF had been “working tirelessly to protect and…
17 november 2015 / By Juan García. Huffington Post Over a quarter of a century since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the scars of Central & Eastern Europe’s post-communist legacy are still clear to see. Lacking the institutional infrastructure and regulatory oversight, the collapse of communism in the USSR created a void across the…
25 May 2015 / By EFE Bruselas. Heraldo.es La Unión Europea (UE) criticó hoy la promulgación de una ley en Rusiaque permite declarar “indeseables” a las ONG extranjeras e internacionales, al tiempo que subrayó que contradice a la mismaConstitución rusa. “La nueva ley que permite declarar “indeseables” a las ONG, promulgada por el presidente ruso…
20 May 2015 / By Charter 97 A big delegation of journalists of independent media, including the leadership of the Belarusian Journalist Association, as well as representatives of the Information Ministry of the Journalism faculty of the Belarusian State University, journalists of state-run media, are taking part in the conference preceding the Eastern Partnership Summit…
4 May 2015 / By Wilfredo Miranda Aburto “Putin controla casi todos los periódicos”. Periodistas independientes rusos denuncian amenazas a la libertad de prensa y los riesgos físicos y psicológicos de ejercer la profesión Riga (Letonia).- Más de 300 periodistas se han reunido en Letonia para discutir la situación de la libertad de prensa en el…
3 November 2014 / By Adelina Marini, Zagreb EU can and should have a bigger role in supporting media freedom and pluralism in the EU and beyond. This is how begins the report of the high level group on media pluralism and freedom, established by the former European commissioner for the digital agenda and media, Neelie…
October 16, 2014 / RIA NOVOSTI en.ria.ru Russia should make every effort to guarantee freedom of expression, support media pluralism, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher told RIA Novosti, regarding the new law, which has reduced the possible share of foreign stockholders in Russian media. MOSCOW, October 16 (RIA Novosti) – Russia should make every effort…
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