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Discourse in danger. Attacks on free expression in Putin's Russia

The report “Discourse in danger. Attacks on free expression in Putin's Russia” illustrates...
Consolidation of broadcasting groups across Europe

The European audiovisual market is witnessing the consolidation of a few big groups dominating...
The European "migration crisis" and the media. A cross-European press content analysis

A report on the press coverage of the migration phenomenon in eight European countries, and the...
ECPMF Conference e-book: Introduction, presentations, and conclusions

A conference report collecting the materials of the conference "Promoting dialogue between...
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017

The 2017 edition of the Digital News Report by the Reuters Institute, the most comprehensive...
Hungary: State advertising in media, 2006-2016

Mérték Média Monitor analysed changes in state advertising between 2006-2016 in Hungarian...

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Ukraine: impunity persists for the murder of Pavel Sheremet

A year after journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed by a car bomb in Kiev, Ukraine has so far failed to make progress on the case. A report highlights issues with Kiev’s credibility and suggests the need for an independent probe

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Medžlis Islamske Zajednice Brčko and Others v. Bosnia and Herzegovina: condemnation for four NGOs confirmed by Strasbourg Court

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Workshop in London: Reporting on migration and refugees

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Censorship and self-censorship in Croatia

Censorship in Turkey

Censorship, soft censorship and self-censorship in Macedonia

Censorship and self-censorship in Serbia

Censorship and self-censorship in Albania

Censorship, self-censorship and soft-censorship in Montenegro

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Killing Pavel: a OCCRP documentary

On 20 July 2016 Belarusian investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet died in a car explosion in Kyiv, Ukraine. He was a critic of authoritarian presidencies in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The case is still unsolved, although the Ukraine Prosecutor's Office labelled the death a 'murder'. For over nine months, reporters from OCCRP and Slidstvo.Info conducted their own investigation, both into the murder and into the police probe – and recorded every step of the way. “Killing Pavel” is the result of these efforts