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This call is being circulated by Swedish bloggers, and in Swedish Social Media, today. Please join in , repost or sign the petition...

For Global Voices Online : "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." This chronically misused Kipling phra...

What makes it all so hard to understand? That is the question that arises with authoritarian regimes and comprehension of basic political dy...

For Global Voices Online : "Orthodoxy or death!" are the war cries sounded in recent weeks as forces of religious reaction have e...

" Shut up! Parliament is not for debate! " Make no mistake: These are the words of authoritarian statehood, words of utter arroga...

On Friday, July 10, the two Azeri bloggers and youth activists, Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, were put in two months' pre-trial jail cu...

When the BBC goes off the air, civilisation is at an end. At least, so seems to have been the British view during the Cold War, as submarine...

Today, public readings of texts by Anna Politkovskaya will be held in 20 countries and 80 places worldwide. With half a year passed since th...

Will the Kremlin's grip on Russian freedom of speech tighten further? This fear has grown stronger in recent days, as president Putin th...

Anna Politkovskaya is dead. Murdered by the same cruelty and brutality that she herself dedicated her life to fight. For a moment the world ...