Forty years on from Nineteen Eighty-Four, a panel of freedom of expression experts has explored the relevance of the dystopian novel to now
Are we sleepwalking into Orwell’s nightmare?
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CATEGORY: Russia
Contents – The long reach: How authoritarian countries are silencing critics abroad
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We the screamers
The atrocity deniers are everywhere and we need to scream over them with the truth
Why we cannot afford to look away
We are at risk of disaster fatigue around the war in Ukraine as new atrocities crowd the story out of the news
Vladimir Kara-Murza: The family man who has spent two years in prison
Campaigner Bill Browder calls the jailed Putin critic “the type of person that our world needs the most”
Kara-Murza’s detention, two years on: A tale of resilience amid Russian authoritarianism
On the two-year anniversary of the journalist and activist’s detention in Putin’s Russia, we call on the UK to take action
Evan Gershkovich: We must be as loud as possible
The unlawful imprisonment in Russia of the WSJ reporter has huge implications for media freedom worldwide. We can all play a part in bringing about his release
When is a landslide not a landslide?
It’s a question which Vladimir Putin has clearly been thinking about after what would ordinarily be considered a decisive win in last week’s Russian presidential election
Iran: do you want the good or the bad news?
A great privilege of working at Index is, and always has been, the amazing people we get to encounter, such as Iranian musician Toomaj Salehi
Navalny told them not to give up – and they didn’t
People across Russia risked arrest to pay their respects to the dead opposition leader during a ‘climate of terror’. We spoke to some of those who attended memorials