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Russia’s best-known independent newspaper was my home for 17 years. It’s being shut down, but the spirit of its journalism will live on Novaya Gazeta – Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper – is being shut down. On 29 October, two things became known: Novaya was being evicted from its newsroom,Continue Reading

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The country’s wealthy elite is aligning itself with the far-right politics of the Motorists party to stifle dissent Oto Klempíř was for many years the frontman of JAR, a popular Czech funk-rock band. He was expelled from the band last year, not over creative differences, or even because of hisContinue Reading