New Wikipedia page created: Media of Russia - Wikipedia Item

The new Wikipedia article "Media of Russia" has been created in February 2016

Russian surveillance law - Legal Resources

In a case related to alleged mobile phone surveillance, the European Court of Human Rights decided that an editor in Russia was entitled to claim to be a victim of a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Access Info Europe: Accessing companies registers #3 Tuesday 02 February 2016 - Infographic

, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Ukraine. The remaining 21 countries ask a charge that can be different from country to country: Serbia asks 0,5 Euro for the access to a single record while Russia asks

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

The report “Discourse in danger. Attacks on free expression in Putin's Russia” illustrates the increasing effort by the Russian government to shape the information space, from the Internet, to children’s literature, to any independent cultural spaces, including theater and academia

Remembrance Day for Killed Journalists in Russia - Wikipedia Item

December 15 is the Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed on the Line of Duty in the Russian Federation. 

Wikipedia tracks the dire situation of press and media freedom in Russia in several way. It includes a general article on the Media of Russia as well as a more specific one on Freedom of the Press in Russia, with a section on cases of assaults on journalists. The List of journalists killed in Russia includes the names of over 200 media professionals killed over the last 25 years in the Russian Federation. 

Among them, the Wikipedian in Residence at Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso has already provided for translations into Italian of the pages about Natalya Estemirova,  Larisa Yudina,  Andrey Stenin,  Sergei Dubov,  Kazbek Gekkiyev,  Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, Oleg Slabynko,  Stanislav Markelov, and  Gadzhi Abashilov. The page on Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev was also translated into Russian.

EU Communication Policy in Its Neighbourhood in Light of Third-Party Propaganda - Reports

How EU can face Russian rhetoric and IS propaganda? A report from the Polish Institue of International Affairs

Germany: Press Freedom does not take precedence over relations with Ukraine and Russia - Legal Resources

On 8 December 2015, the 6th Senate of the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg decided that the Federal Government is not obliged to give information to a representative of the press on a report of the German ambassador in Ukraine

2 November Action: Five wiki articles translated in Italian - Article

2 November Action: Five wiki articles translated in Italian

Media and Politics in New Democracies - Books

Media and Politics in New Democracies - Europe in a Comparative Perspective, edited by Jan Zielonka, analyses the relationship between the media and politics in new democracies in Europe and other parts of the world

Freedom on the net 2015 - Reports

Freedom on the Net – a comprehensive report on internet freedom produced annually by Freedom House - analyses the state censorship of on-line media in 65 countries around the world