Civil society and Media
The Supreme Court of Karelia has denied the appeal of the defense of local history expert Yuri Dmitriev against the prolongation of his arrest.
Authoritarian state regimes step up their oppression of independent media and the coming decade will be decisive for the future of journalism, says Reporters Without Borders.
Political activist Ruslan Shaveddinov has been transferred to a desolate post in the militarized Arctic archipelago without telephone signal.
Vyacheslav Gorodetsky says he can not accept the authorities’ growing interference in local journalism.
Pressure against domestic media is mounting and the country steps up efforts to spread fake news abroad.
Ruslan Shaveddinov used to march the streets of Moscow in protests against the Kremlin. Now, he drives missile-carrying trucks in one of Russia's remotest military bases.
The Human Rights Court in Strasbourg concludes that the Russian Military failed to investigate properly the death of Konstantin Luzyanin and grants mother Valentina €26.000 compensation.
More than ten people are charged as security agents take action against the outlawed religious community.
Independent organization Memorial must pay the state 4.1 million rubles.
New report
We are living in a time of growing pressure against free and independent media. It has come to the North, and regional journalists are increasingly feeling the chill, reads a new media monitoring report from the Barents Observer.
Siste/ mest lest
The arrest of Karelian researcher of Stalin’s repressions Yuri Dmitriev has been extended for three months
Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor says online journal 7x7-journal broke the law when it published a series of blog posts in the local Komi language, as well as two translations in English.
Not one single parliament member voted against when the State State Duma on Thursday adopted the third and final reading of the law giving authorities the right to designate any writer, photographer or video-blogger as ‘foreign agent’.
Moscow highlights the Arctic as territory of dialogue, but a recent court order might indicate that not everyone is welcomed to that dialogue.
Experts say the country lacks the technology to implement the controversial legislation.
Director of the group, Rodion Sulyandziga, says Russia’s goal with the shutdown is to keep indigenous peoples outside any international, Arctic and UN venues.
"We look with great concern at the difficult working conditions for civil society in Russia, especially the conditions for NGOs, the media and indigenous peoples," says foreign minister Ine Eriksen Søreide.
House searches and interrogations have been made in more than 30 Russian regions. In Murmansk, a sponsor of the local Navalny office spent the whole day in police custody.
Sara is actively working to revitalize the language that was on the brink of extinction.
We are countering censorship and finding a new way into Russia, says Editor Thomas Nilsen.
Press release: Moscow city court has accepted a claim by The Barents Observer to challenge Russia’s censorship and media regulation agency Roskomnadzor’s arguments to ban the newspaper.
After months of protests, locals say they won’t back down against government plans for a massive landfill in Russia's north.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on Monday that introduces fines for the unauthorized production or distribution of foreign print media.
After several years of lower ratings, Finland is again ranked near the top of the World Press Freedom Index. Finland is now in second place behind neighbouring Norway, with another neighbour, Sweden, in third. The Netherlands, which was second last year, now slides to fourth.
As lawmakers have gathered at Helsinki’s House of the Estates for government formation negotiations over the past several days, demonstrators from various groups have also assembled there.
The country’s media control authority is ready to block more websites. And take new measures that will prevent you from accessing them.
Officers in uniform broke into the Rakurs center in the north Russian city in what appears as a strike against the small local LGBT community.
Police makes series of detentions and issues major fines in bid to stagger growing protests against the building of a major garbage dump in the south of the region.
The blocking in Russia of the Norwegian newspaper is lifted to diplomatic level.
The State Duma adopts a package of new laws that enables government to crack down on news regarded as «unreliable public information.»
A several thousand kilometer long fiber optic cable is to be laid along the Russian Arctic coast as part of the Armed Forces’ building of a new closed internet.
