Andreas Krieg, an expert in surrogate warfare and the growth of private military companies, has assessed the Kremlin’s efforts to re-mould the notorious Wagner Group […]
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Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin – dead and buried?
Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin is reported dead and buried.His Wagner mercenary group said he was buried on August 29. Russian authorities said genetic testing matched […]
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13 September: What future for the Wagner group?
Dr. Andreas Krieg, a political and country risk analyst and senior lecturer at King’s College London, will examine the Wagner group’s deep penetration of countries […]
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Understanding Ukraine’s “350-year war” for independence
William Horsley reports on the AEJ’s meeting on 5 June 2023 with researcher and political scientist Jaroslava Barbieri Jaroslava Barbieri is an Italo-Ukrainian political scientist […]
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AEJ joins call to release Gershkovich
The AEJ has joined partner media freedom groups to urge Russian authorities to release American journalist Evan Gershkovich immediately and to drop all charges against […]
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Russian warlord investigation forces UK to tighten sanctions
The UK government has tightened its sanctions rules against Russia in the wake of revelations by openDemocracy that the UK Treasury gave sanctioned Russian warlord […]
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AEJ UK donates to Ukrainian journalists
The AEJ UK has donated more than 1500 Euros to Ukrainian journalists in response to an appeal for members’ contributions agreed at the annual members’ […]
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War in Europe, war on journalism
This year’s annual Council of Europe report on the safety of journalists documents a record high number of attacks on journalists and a continued degradation […]
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Ukraine – one year on
Leading European media freedom organisations including the Association of European Journalists marked the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with a joint statement, reminding […]
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Media freedom and disinformation in Ukraine – March 1
The president of Ukraine’s National Union of Journalists Sergiy Tomilenko joined an online panel on March 1 about how the Ukrainian crisis is reported and […]
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Russian journalism in exile
What’s it like for journalists who have fled Russia since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022? And the many independent […]
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Russia’s disintegrating neighbourhood
Thomas de Waal, senior fellow with Carnegie Europe, brought his expertise on Russia, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to an AEJ UK lunch on November […]
Read moreReporting the war in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has turned Ukrainian journalists into war reporters. At a workshop of the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Media Freedom hosted by the […]
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RSF details Putin’s media control
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres) has released a report on 22 years of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “persecution of journalists”. As Putin celebrated his […]
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Human rights activists win Nobel Peace Prize 2022
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to three champions of human rights in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, Russian […]
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