In this week’s “Nightwatch” Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno uses executed Russian writer Isaak Babel as a jumping off point to explore humanity’s long, complex relationship with Paradise.
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In the Weekly Freedom of Speech Roundup Sampsonia Way presents some of the week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature. This week news from Russia, Tibet, Iran, the Americas, and Julian Assange.
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In this interview, political science professor Jonathan Harris talks about the documentary Putin’s Kiss, the pro-Kremlin Nashi movement, the limits of freedom of speech in Russia, and the future of political opposition and dissent in the country.
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A collection of responses from the media and social media users on the actions taken against journalists who covered the recent Russian presidential election. While some international media outlets covered these events, social media responses in English have been limited.
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Daniil Kislov, founder and editor-in-chief of Ferghana News, paints a bleak outlook for journalism in Uzbekistan and says the independent media in the country is in a “deep freeze.”
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the Syrian government’s refusal to allow the evacuation of French journalists Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, and British journalist Paul Conroy, from Homs, along with the bodies of slain journalists Marie Colvin and Remy Ochlik.
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Thousands of Twitter accounts apparently created in advance to blast automated messages are being used to drown out Tweets sent by bloggers and activists this week who are protesting the disputed parliamentary elections in Russia.
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