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  1. Serbia wants to join the EU. Can it do so while journalists are forced into exile?

    Serbia wants to move forward with its EU accession, even as journalists are being threatened, surveilled and forced…
    #Europe #EU #accession #AleksandarVucic #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #journalism #Mediafreedom #RSF #RuleofLawReport #Serbia #Surveillance
    europesays.com/europe/131424/

  2. @inex ❌ In Russia, the classifieds platform Avito has blocked a woman’s account after she used it for messaging during internet outages.

    The service explained that the listing titled “Strict cat for friends” violated its rules because it did not offer a real product or service. The woman created it solely as a chat workaround, since Avito is included in the “whitelisted” resources accessible during shutdowns.

    ℹ️ Residents of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region have been reporting for the third consecutive day a lack of mobile internet and problems accessing websites and banking services, according to “Current Time.” The “whitelists” have been tested since summer 2025, but even they remain unstable.

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    #Russia #Avito #InternetShutdown #Censorship #DigitalRights #FreedomOfSpeech #Runet #Whitelist #TechNews #StPetersburg #LeningradRegion #InternetAccess #CyberPolicy #OnlineFreedom #MediaFreedom

  3. Media freedom in the spotlight as the Kuciak murder case reopens.

    Europe presents itself as a defender of the free press, yet some high-profile murders of EU journalists have yet to be resolved.

    Will a new trial into the death of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak change that?

    mediafaro.org/article/20260126

    #Slovakia #JanKuciak #Journalism #MediaFreedom #PressFreedom #Europe #ReportersWithoutBorders #Media #MartinaKusnirova

  4. The #UnitedStates was added to the CIVICUS Monitor #Watchlist due to concerns about declining #CivilLiberties, particularly under the #Trump Administration. #CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society groups, cited actions such as: cuts to #ForeignAid; crackdowns on #diversity initiatives; attempts to restrict #MediaFreedom or the #FreePress; and threats to #dissent. The #WhiteHouse has rejected this assessment, asserting that President Trump is leading the most transparent administration in history.

    #HumanRights #Watchlist #DEI

    time.com/7266334/us-h

  5. The #UnitedStates was added to the CIVICUS Monitor #Watchlist due to concerns about declining #CivilLiberties, particularly under the #Trump Administration. #CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society groups, cited actions such as: cuts to #ForeignAid; crackdowns on #diversity initiatives; attempts to restrict #MediaFreedom or the #FreePress; and threats to #dissent. The #WhiteHouse has rejected this assessment, asserting that President Trump is leading the most transparent administration in history.

    #HumanRights #Watchlist #DEI

    time.com/7266334/us-human-righ