Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
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Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media
Russia: Media freedom curtailed under veneer of legality
Russia’s media freedom has declined under the government of Vladimir Putin. The president and his allies have used a cloak of legislative legitimacy to target
The Russia-Turkey crisis is feeding a new propaganda war between the countries
Before 24 November, Turkey was described in Russian news reports as a reliable partner in ambitious projects, a source of fruits and
“Fear peninsula”: How Russia closed down media freedom in Crimea
Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Tetiana Pechonchyk outlines the ways Russia has curtailed press freedom in Crimea
Russia: Media freedom NGO faces closure
The Russian Ministry of Justice has added Glasnost Defence Foundation (GDF) to the list of NGOs it considers foreign agents
Russia: Blasphemy law has aided the growth of religious censorship
Since the amended blasphemy law came into force in July 2013, Russian journalists have faced a growth of religious censorship
Russia’s regional media: Cowed, controlled and silenced
When the Tomsk-based station TV-2 ceased broadcasting earlier this year, Siberia lost one of its few independent stations
Russia: Attempted murder of Oleg Kashin a symbol of impunity for attacks on journalists
On 6 November 2010, prominent Russian journalist Oleg Kashin was badly beaten with a steel pipe on his doorstep and nearly killed
Russia’s targeting of NGOs ensnares journalist associations
Most of the Russian NGOs defending freedom of the press are blacklisted as “foreign agents”, while facing excessive pressure for non-compliance, writes Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Andrey Kalikh