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Media freedom advocates condemn 25 years of impunity for journalist Slavko Ćuruvija’s murder, shot in front of his home in Belgrade, and underscore the urgent need for authorities to act and protect press freedom in Serbia

Media freedom advocates reissue call to end impunity on the third anniversary of Giorgos Karaivazs murder

In Putin’s Russia, thought control survives and thrives.

The unnamed suspect told interrogators that he committed the attack because he “disliked” the governor, Russia’s Investigation Committee said.

After a heinous terrorist attack in the Moscow metropolitan area, Russian security forces arrested 11 people, seven of whom are ethnically Tajik, sparking a backlash against the Central Asian migrant population in Russia. Human rights organizations said they received thousands of alerts of threats or violence against Central Asians residing in Russia. Experts say that while radicalization mostly happens abroad, the amount of people that terrorist organizations manage to attract from labor migran...

All politics, as Karl Schmidt observed, is about the choice between friend and foe. Thomas Jefferson, however, used a category above that of a foe, hostis humani generis (enemy of the humankind), to describe terrorists, hostage-takers and all those who

It took Vladimir Putin days before he conceded that the terror attack on a concert hall in Crocus near Moscow was the work of ISIS operatives from Central Asia. Yet, he continued to fly his earlier kite about Ukraine being responsible. The claim in the sense the Russian leader intends it is too ridiculous to merit rebuttal. Nevertheless, examined from other angles it contains more than a grain of truth.

When President Vladimir Putin said "radical Islamists" had carried out the attack, he called it "just an element in a series of attempts of those who have been at war with our country since 2014," an explicit reference to Ukraine and the upheaval that year that led to the illegal annexation of Crimea.

On March 22, at approximately 19:55 Moscow time, a group of at least 4 assailants approached the Crocus City Hall

The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape out marginal existences. Along with grinding poverty, Tajikistan is rife with religious tensions. Hard-line Islamists…