All posts in Russia

FreeMediaOnline.org Truckee, CA, USA, April 6, 2011-- An independent outside expert evaluation of the Voice of America (VOA) Russian news website content,

The Valdai Club interview with Free Media Online Director Mario Corti on the human rights situation in Russia.

TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, March 2, 2011 -- In this series of analyses for Free Media Online (FreeMediaOnline.org) -- U.S. International Broadcasting in Crisis-- Ted

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

New York, February 23, 2011--In advance of key meetings on Thursday between the European Commission and Russian Prime Minister

FreeMediaOnline.orgTruckee, CA, USA, February 21, 2011 -- As reported by PiratesWeek and Kim Andrew Elliott, a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)

Human Rights Watch (HRW) - After almost 19 years since the first exchange of fire in August 1992, the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict remains as far from political

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Luke Harding , correspondent of the British daily The Guardian who was deported from Russia on 5 February, returned to his

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

Remembering A Mentor by Mario Corti No one has told Yuriy Handler's story better than his daughter, best-selling American novelist Paullina Simons.

When I was 9 years old my

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Alexander Chernega, editor and publisher of the newspaper "Paramushir-Vesti", was ruthlessly beaten after some of his critical stories about the local governor

TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, February 08, 2011 -- One would think that the centennial of Ronald Reagan's birthday could be a perfect public diplomacy theme for

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is deeply disturbed by Russia's expulsion of Luke Harding , The Guardian 's Moscow correspondent, regarding it as

Freedom House: Freedom House today expresses deep concern about the illegal eviction of dozens of Chechen families from their homes in Grozny over the past month and

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Yekaterina Silina wrote about new Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin's initiatives and was in charge of scanning government officials' blogs.