Although it has been 30 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the legacy of its reign – and the Kremlin’s continued influence – is still evident in former Eastern bloc countries. Nowh...
Arzu Geybulla
Arzu Geybulla is an Azerbaijani columnist and writer with a special focus on digital authoritarianism and its implications on human rights and press freedom in Azerbaijan. Arzu has written for Al Jazeera, Eurasianet, Foreign Policy Democracy Lab, CODA, Open Democracy, and Radio Free Europe, with a byline on CNN International. She is a regular contributor at IWPR, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso and Global Voices. In 2019, Arzu launched Azerbaijan Internet Watch, a platform that documents and monitors information controls in Azerbaijan.
Investigative journalists and independent publications have always been a thorn in the side of those in power. For centuries corrupt governments have used censorship and random arrests to silence trut...
Journalists from Eastern Europe are all too familiar with trying to navigate political leaders and their cronies have fostered a culture of propaganda and falsehood in a bid to silence independent med...
Investigative journalists and independent publications have always been a thorn in the side of those in power, particularly of corrupt governments. In recent years media censorship and repression of i...
Shortly after Donald Trump took office in January 2017, the term “fake news” went viral as a way to discredit and vilify media. According to a recent piece by the New York Times he tweeted the phr...
It has been nearly thirty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. But we are still seeing the legacy of its reign in former Eastern bloc countries, especially when we look at the media. Accor...
