April 24, 2020 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Othmara Glas
In a region where the flow of information has traditionally been tightly controlled by governments, there has been little critical reporting on the crisis. ...
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October 22, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Oleksandr Yaroshchuk
The post-Soviet space remains dangerous for journalists. Authoritarian regimes and military conflicts make life hard for reporters, free and open media are increasingly under threat. Oleksandr Yaroshchuk offers a worrying analysis...
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August 18, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by EJO
Tajikistan’s internet providers have started to block online ‘anonymizers’, which allow users to access various banned news sites and social networks, the National Association of Independent Mass Media in Tajikistan reports. The move...
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June 24, 2014 •
Press Freedom, Specialist Journalism •
by Evgeniya Boklage
This article has been updated. Details below. Alexander Sodiqov a Tajik blogger at Global Voices and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto was detained in Tajikistan on June 16, in a case that raises issues of freedom of expression...
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March 24, 2014 •
Press Freedom •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
This article has been amended. A newspaper editor in Tajikistan is locked in a legal battle with academics over her right to publish an opinion piece. Olga Tutubalina, editor of the country’s most popular newspaper, Asia-Plus wrote an...
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June 25, 2013 •
Public Relations •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
YouTube is full of wedding videos featuring fathers dancing badly, and possibly enthusiastically at their child’s wedding. But in Tajikistan, authorities banned YouTube a week after a video of the president dancing and singing...
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December 14, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
BBC was among the many Western media outlets to ridicule a Chinese newspaper for being fooled by an article on an American satirical website calling the Korean leader Kim Jong-un the sexiest man alive. Only a few days later the BBC’s own...
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