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Published in: oDRHow international media failed Moldova’s protesters
There’s more to Moldova's protests than “pro-European” versus “pro-Russian”.
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Published in: oDRReview: Arkady Ostrovsky’s ‘The Invention of Russia’
This new history tells a compelling, if normative, story of how Russia’s journalists and entrepreneurs threw off...
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Published in: oDRoDR speaks to MeydanTV’s Emin Milli
In Azerbaijan, the crackdown on civil society continues. We speak to the director of MeydanTV, one of the country’s...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s media: a plea for pluralism
Ukraine’s media is caught between propaganda and counter-propaganda. We need to stop this black and white thinking.
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Published in: oDRRussia's politics of paranoia
Russian society tries to keep its nerve. The Kremlin thrives on it, the papers amplify it—but nobody can quite...
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Published in: oDRMedia responsibility in the age of terror
Professor Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, and journalists Rita Chinyoka and Nadezhda Azhgikhina discuss feeding terror, hate...
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Published in: oDRThe curious case of Georgia’s Rustavi-2
A scandal in Georgia over the country's largest opposition TV station has polarised the country, raising pointed...
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Published in: oDRTruthiness in Russia
What we’re missing from the propaganda debate: how Russian state media feed off and amplify public sentiment.
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Published in: oDRThe Samara Three: what we know
Three bloggers have been arrested in Samara, Russia on suspected extortion charges. The ripples from the arrest are...
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Published in: oDRThe end of the Nazarbayev dream
Kazakhstan’s networked authoritarianism is a powerful system of media control, but it leaves little room for the...
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Published in: oDRLike me, I'm an autocrat
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov might be the Russian Federation’s second most powerful figure. With such friends in...
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Published in: oDRConfession of a Russian internet provider
A firsthand account of how the internet is monitored, regulated and blocked in the Russian Federation.
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Published in: oDRThe mountains have ears: legislating against surveillance in Georgia
The late 2000s saw illegal wiretaps and surveillance ramp up in Georgia. New laws to deal with this legacy are yet...
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Published in: oDRAll eyes on Moldova
When it comes to internal corruption, European integration or the standoff with Russia, Moldova is in the media...
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Published in: HomeSmooth censorship in Russia
Everybody understands everything, everybody knows everything, and no one says anything aloud.
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Published in: oDRWarped mirror: how Russian media covers Europe’s refugee crisis
For all of its sniping and sensation, Russian media’s coverage of refugees in Europe hit too close to home. на русском языке
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Published in: oDRBook Review: Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan's 'The Red Web'
The Russian state has redoubled its efforts to bring the internet to heel. The consequences for defiance are...
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Published in: oDRWhy ‘gay social experiments’ in eastern Europe are missing the point
In the west, recent videos of discrimination against gay couples in Moscow and Kyiv have gone viral. But they don’t...
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Published in: oDRHow Russian TV propaganda is made
Federal television in Russia has long been suspected of propaganda. Four Russian TV producers share their stories of...
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Published in: oDRHiding in plain sight: Russian ministries online
Government websites have a bad reputation for a reason. In Russia, NGOs have been trying to make them easier to...