ROME (AP) — Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI went on strike Monday to protest budget streamlining and what they said was an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media under the government of Premier Giorgia Meloni. The 24-hour RAI strike is the latest protest by Italian journalists against what they say are threats to […]
(Bloomberg) — Venezuela said it will hold presidential elections in July, setting the stage for Nicolás Maduro’s reelection as his main rival remains banned from public office. Most Read from Bloomberg Much about the nation’s crucial vote, set for July 28, remains undecided: such as whether credible opposition candidates will be allowed to participate or […]
Journalists of the Russian news outlet Proekt (Project) have estimated that more people have been convicted in Russia during Putin‘s rule than during the rule of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev in the USSR. Source: Proekt; Latvia-based Russian media outlet Meduza Details: The news outlet reported that over 116,000 people have become targets of repression […]
The Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, Serhiy Kyslytsia, responded on Twitter on Dec. 19 to a fake claim spread by the Russian delegation after he addressed the UN in Spanish. “‘Es que no estoy curada*…,’ says Lucía, the heroine of the film by the outstanding Spaniard, Pedro Almodóvar, ‘Women on the Verge of […]