Media
Moldova starts media cooperation with Middle East
February 17, 2011Moldova has started media cooperation with the Middle East. An agreement on bilateral cooperation between the MOLDPRES state news agency and the Palestinian state news agency Wafa was signed in Chisinau. MOLDPRES director-general Vlad Darie told a...
OSCE media freedom representative calls for end to crackdown on independent media in Belarus
January 06, 2011The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, called today for an end to the attacks on independent media in Belarus and urged authorities to immediately release imprisoned journalists. “I am deeply concerned by the unprecedented...
Hungary’s media laws threaten core European principles
January 06, 2011By Constanze Stelzenmüller “Europe whole and free” owes a great debt to the decision by a courageous Hungarian government to open its frontiers to Austria in the summer of 1989, allowing thousands of East German refugees to escape...
Hungarian media law further endangers media freedom
December 22, 2010Hungary's new media law violates OSCE media freedom standards and endangers editorial independence and media pluralism, Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said today. "I am concerned that Hungary's parliament has...
December 02, 2010Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms must underpin sustainable security in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian area, emphasized the heads of OSCE institutions on human rights and democratic institutions, media freedom and national minorities...
Wikileaks case highlights crisis in journalism
December 01, 2010By Paul Goble What Wikileaks is doing has little in common with journalism or activism, two leading Russian specialists on the intelligence community say, but the case does highlight the increasingly serious crisis in journalism not...
Attack on Kabardino-Balkaria hydroelectric plant exposes government’s weakness
July 27, 2010by Valery Dzutsev On July 21, a group of militants in Kabardino-Balkaria launched a bold attack on the Baksan hydroelectric plant, ransacked the facility and rendering it unusable after a series of explosions. Two policemen who were guarding the plant...
July 21, 2010The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, met on Monday with Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva to promote the establishment of a public service broadcaster and support further media reforms in Kyrgyzstan, including improving the...
OSCE media representative condemns new sentencing of Azerbaijani journalist
July 07, 2010The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, condemned an additional jail sentence of 2.5 years handed down today to Eynulla Fatullayev, one of Azerbaijan's most prominent investigative journalists. "I am deeply disappointed...
Press freedom, globally, suffered more setbacks in 2009
April 29, 2010By Richard Solash, Nikola Krastev The world's press became less free in 2009, experiencing another year of setbacks. Among the top offenders were Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Iran, and Russia. That's according to a new report by the Washington...