The AEJ UK will get an updated view of Ukraine in a lunchtime meeting on November 28. Olena Sotnyk, an advisor to Ukraine’s deputy prime […]
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Putin’s war in Ukraine – and at home
Vranyo – Russian for I’m telling lies and you know I’m telling lies but I’m going to tell them anyway. That was veteran Russia watcher […]
Read moreNo end to war in Ukraine with Putin in power – Ilya Ponamariov
A promised session in the International AEJ Congress program offered fresh insight into the war in Ukraine – from David Worsfold, AEJ UK treasurer.
Read moreUnderstanding 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 […]
Read moreMedia 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 […]
Read moreRussian 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 […]
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 […]
Read moreHolding Russia accountable
International human rights lawyer Aarif Abraham argues that the only legal way to make Russia accountable for a crime of aggression in the Ukraine is […]
Read moreUkraine eastern offensive historic?
One of Britain’s pre-eminent military analysts says a rapid and surprise Ukraine advance in the northeastern Donbas region is historic. Ukraine in early September claimed […]
Read moreReflections on Mikhail Gorbachev
The death of former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev on August 30 2022 of course sparked strongly mixed reaction around the world. And perhaps unsurprisingly reopened […]
Read morePutin on stage
Vladimir Putin has been a player on the world stage for some time – now he’s on London’s theatre stage. The AEJ’s Anthony Robinson, former […]
Read moreSanctions on Russia – an assessment
International economic strategist and sanctions expert Timothy Ash assessed the impact of international sanctions on Russia’s ability to prosecute the war in Ukraine at an […]
Read moreSanctions on Russia – reflections after Timothy Ash
A commentary from Anthony Robinson, AEJ member and former FT eastern Europe and Russia correspondent 5 July 2022 Everybody got it wrong. Most Western […]
Read moreChanging attitudes?
Besides the focus on media, the AEJ’s day-long seminar on the effects of the war in Ukraine on Europe exposed some changing attitudes in Europe […]
Read moreMedia, politics and war
The bell tolling for the near death of journalism but hope too in legal victories, the use of new techologies, and support for investigative journalism […]
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