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OSCE Criticises Russian Media Isolation and "Climate of Fear"
Since 2012, the Russian government has been suppressing freedom of expression step by step. With a new law that will only allow information from official Russian channels, a new low has been reached to which the OSCE would like to draw attention once again.
More and more often, demonstrators fighting for freedom of expression are arrested and silenced. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons: Evgeniy Isaev from Moscow, Russia, CC BY 2.0
Teresa Ribeiro, the OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media, recently renewed her criticism of the Russian leadership for massively restricting the country's media freedom. She accuses the government of violating the human right to freedom of expression and that of the media.
The commissioner's statement follows a 21 September statement by the Russian media…
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