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Embattled journalist Yulia Latynina flees Russia following attacks

Leading Russian journalist Yulia Latynina has left Russia with her family following a series of attacks on her in recent months.

Once again, Uzbekistan fires head of state TV

30 August 2017
Legendary Serbian B92 TV and radio soon to be a thing of the past

30 August 2017
Romania fears propaganda from Russian-owned Moldovan channel

17 August 2017
Reporters Without Borders slams Azerbaijan for independent media harassment

15 August 2017
Uzbekistan declares war on commercial media

10 August 2017
Russia halts deportation of Uzbek journalist Ali Feruz

9 August 2017
Most young Russians get their news from state-run TV, study shows

28 July 2017
Journalists in Azerbaijan gifted free flats for press day

25 July 2017
Turkmenistan looks to lure viewers with self-sustaining national TV

18 July 2017
Is Croatia’s ruling party supporting corruption at the country’s national broadcaster?

13 July 2017
BBC to re-open Uzbekistan office

6 July 2017
Inauguration day attacks bode badly for journalists in Serbia

2 June 2017
Azerbaijani court blocks Radio Free Europe website

15 May 2017
Russian censors remove Putin from Fargo episodes

15 May 2017
Censorship fears grow as Serbian government considers axing news platform N1

5 May 2017
Russians are losing faith in TV news

4 May 2017
Could Bosnia soon be the only European country without state TV?

27 April 2017
Azerbaijani activists and journalists under online attack, says Amnesty International

10 March 2017
TV channel scandal sparks censorship fears in Georgia

3 March 2017
Uzbek journalist freed after 18 years in prison

22 February 2017
Croatian media await funding decision with bated breath

1 February 2017
Journalist departures spark concern in Albania

13 January 2017
Ukraine bans independent Russian channel TV Rain

12 January 2017
Czech government tackles fake news with specialist unit

4 January 2017
Polish protests against press restrictions continue

19 December 2016
Albania considers clamp down on online media

16 December 2016
Balkan countries still failing on freedom of expression, warns EU Commission

15 November 2016
UK bank freezes Russian broadcaster RT’s accounts

17 October 2016
Kosovo TV blast “an attack on free speech”, according to president

23 August 2016
Serbian political parties stage rival exhibitions

12 August 2016
Russian Sputnik news agency moves UK headquarters to Edinburgh

12 August 2016
Serbian ruling party protests against attacks with “media lies” exhibition

19 July 2016
NBC executive denied entry into Russia

14 July 2016
Pro-Kremlin group calls for investigation into independent TV Rain

6 July 2016
RBC editor who quit in protest set to become chief editor of TV Rain

30 June 2016
Vice faces censorship from media watchdog in Russia

8 June 2016
Azerbaijan court frees investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova

26 May 2016
Websites blocked and reporters detained across Kazakhstan

23 May 2016
Former RBC editor claims political pressure behind staff dismissals

20 May 2016
News websites blocked in Tajikistan

12 May 2016
Warsaw bans Russian journalist from entering Schengen zone until 2020

6 May 2016
TV news still main source of information for Poles, study shows

6 May 2016
Croatian journalists stage protest against culture ministry

3 May 2016
Montenegro’s media adopts revised code of ethics

25 April 2016
Diplomats’ meeting sparks public interest in media freedom in Croatia

20 April 2016
Serbian opposition parties claim unfair media coverage

6 April 2016
Journalists reject call by Putin for income disclosure

5 April 2016
Latvia shuts down Sputnik news site

30 March 2016
UN expert to evaluate freedom of expression in Tajikistan

4 March 2016
Tajik President condemns national TV and radio

2 March 2016
Russia’s TV Rain pays fine over Leningrad siege poll

25 February 2016
Head of Kazakh Union of Journalists arrested for corruption

25 February 2016
No accreditation for Kremlin-funded Rossiya Segodnya in Tajikistan

8 February 2016
Tajik media protest against censorship law

2 February 2016
Serbian journalists in fresh protests against “sexist” minister

12 January 2016
Controversial Polish media bill signed into law

8 January 2016
EU threatens legal action over Polish media law

4 January 2016
Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Russian authorities to allow TV Rain to work unhindered

8 December 2015
Protests in Georgia over government threat to independent television company

23 October 2015
Hundreds of bloggers register with Russian media watchdog

5 August 2015
Russian pop stars protest against plans for patriotic artist incubator

29 July 2015
Tajikistan officials told to give state media priority

23 July 2015
Serbian state-owned media outlets on sale

3 July 2015
Sanoma closes deal to sell stake in Vedomosti ahead of law limiting foreign media shareholding

23 April 2015
“Anti-state” media titles listed in report slamming allocation of state funds to independent media

9 April 2015
State of independents

The websites redefining media in the new east

26 March 2015
Speaking in tongues

Foreign-language news outlets and their role in the ‘media war‘

6 February 2015
Meduza

Can a Riga-based news outlet offer hope to Russia's independent media?

20 October 2014
Opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta given official warning over “extremism”

13 October 2014
State duma considers bill to limit foreign shares in Russian media

17 September 2014
Sacked Lenta editor Timchenko to head new independent media project

1 September 2014
Russian businessman opens fund to support independent media

21 August 2014
Fears for journalistic freedoms as editor of news website Lenta replaced

12 March 2014