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					Arseny Bobrovsky talks about his weird and wonderful @KermlinRussia parody Twitter account
				
Arseny Bobrovksy of the parody account Kermlin Russia, talks to Helen Haft about self-censorship in Russia.

					Russia: ‘The Church has an enemy in every home.’ It’s television.
				
Helen Haft explains how the Orthodox Church has eroded freedom of the media and lobbied for the 2013 law against offending religious feelings.

					Should I go to that conference in Hungary?
				
Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orbán’s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze

					The erosion of European journalism
				
Caroline Lees describes the work of the European Journalism Observatory, and what it is has observed.

					Dunja Mijatović: What are the biggest threats to free speech in Europe?
				
Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Freedom of the Media Representative, in conversation with Timothy Garton Ash

					Free speech in Putin’s Russia: views from the inside
				
Five Russian journalists and academics sit down with Free Speech Debate to discuss their experiences.

					Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich: How does the ‘Red Man’ understand free speech?
				
Nobel Prize Laureate Svetlana Alexievich talks to Free Speech Debate about her career, which has chronicled the lives of ordinary people after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

					The Russian Orthodox Church and freedom of expression: 2016 update
				
Olga Shvarova explores how the Russian Orthodox Church’s interpretation of traditional moral values and spiritual security affects freedom of expression in Russia.

					Russia tightens control of the internet
				
Yury Sorochkin describes the implications of the Russian government’s decision to ban Rutracker.org, the country’s most popular torrent tracker.

					Russia’s law on offending religious feelings
				
Helen Haft examines the case of a blogger prosecuted after an online argument and its implications for Russian free speech.

					‘We need more hell’: Russian free speech and the market of attention
				
Maksim Orlov explores how free speech is not enough for effective communication.

					Evgeny Morozov on the dark side of internet freedom
				
Evgeny Morozov highlights the dangers that can emerge when governments and corporations harness the internet to serve their own objectives.

					Fortress besieged: Russia’s nationalisation of the internet
				
Maksim Orlov analyses the Russian government’s attempts to substitute Russian for western internet services.

					The strange success of RT on YouTube
				
Monica Richter and Free Speech Debate colleagues examine RT’s coverage of the US protests in Ferguson and Baltimore – in four languages.

					Peter Pomerantsev: How important is television to free speech in Russia?
				
Peter Pomerantsev speaks to Declan Johnston about free speech in Russia and the role of Russian television. 

					How Russia’s media pluralism was eroded under Vladimir Putin
				
Maryam Omidi describes a mapping of the Russian media landscape in 2014.

					Profanity, purity and politics — the battle for the Russian language
				
A law banning swear words in the arts in Russia has come into effect in July 2014. Maryam Omidi discusses the implications. 

					The world through the eyes of Russian state television
				
Robert Coalson looks at how Russian television depicts everything from the crisis in Ukraine to the war in Syria.

					Is it a crime to offend bread?
				
For one taxi company in the Russian town of Kostroma, the answer turned out to be yes. Sergey Fadeev explains.

					Vladimi Pozner: Why Russia does not have a concept of free speech
				
Famous Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner says he thinks Russia really has no concept of free speech. Oh, but there’s one place where you do have complete freedom of expression.

					Should Russian speakers be obliged to learn Estonian?
				
FSD’s Olga Shvarova criticises the language-based discrimination ethnic Russians face in Estonia.

					The Kremlin’s grip tightens on Russia’s answer to Facebook
				
Russian social network VK launched six years ago and has since attracted 122 million users. But as Olga Shvarova explains, political and copyright crackdowns are limiting the free flow of information and ideas its users once enjoyed. 

					Russia’s convergence of church and state
				
Olga Shvarova argues that Russian officials used the Orthodox Church as a political pawn to reinforce their own power during the Pussy Riot trial.

					Pussy Riot, Putin’s Russia and the Orthodox Church
				
Was punk band Pussy Riot’s anti-Putin performance in a Moscow church ‘religious hatred hooliganism’ or an artistic form of political dissent? Olga Shvarova considers the case.

					Pussy Riots Kirchenprotest – ein Akt politischen Widerstandes
				
War der Anti-Putin-Auftritt der Punkband Pussy Riot in einer Moskauer Kathedrale „Vandalismus aus religiösem Hass” oder ein politischer Protest? Olga Shvarova erläutert den Fall.

					Online language bubbles: the last frontier?
				
Scott A Hale explores the effect of language in seeking and imparting information on the broader web.

					The case of the Russian ‘spy’
				
Igor Sutyagin, the Russian nuclear researcher sentenced to 15 years for espionage, found himself at the centre of a spy-swap deal in 2010, writes Olga Shvarova.

					The principles should affirm the public’s right to information held by public bodies
				
Sandra Coliver, senior legal officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative, says the right to information is essential for freedom of expression.
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