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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Eddie Galdamez
On June 10, the Russian Parliament passed a law to create a messenger application “with the ability to use state services.” The precise description of the app in the legislation suggests that it was written to accommodate a messaging app called Max, developed by Russia's largest social media platform, VK.
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3 weeks ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva |Valentina Bernal Vargas |Eva Gonzalez |Eva González |Nurbek Bekmurzaev
Desde que comenzó la invasión rusa a gran escala a Ucrania en febrero de 2022, los últimos medios rusos que se oponían al Gobierno y a la invasión quedaron bloqueados, y muchos periodistas se vieron obligados a dejar el país. Desde entonces, estos medios empezaron a depender en gran medida de las redes sociales occidentales, sobre todo YouTube, y han aparecido nuevos canales de noticias y opinión que también utilizan esas plataformas.
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3 weeks ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva |Eva Gonzalez |Eva González |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Janine Mendes-Franco
En la corte distrital de Basmanny de Moscú, terminó el juicio contra el copresidente del movimiento de observación electoral Golos, Grigory Melkonyants, acusado de organizar el trabajo de una organización “indeseable”. El 14 de mayo, la jueza Evgenia Nikolaeva de la corte distrital de Basmanny lo sentenció a cinco años en una colonia de régimen general. Golos publicó su declaración final, que Global Voices tradujo y editó en aras de la claridad.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Mong Palatino |Daria Dergacheva |Laura Vidal
This report was written by Tom Grundy and published in Hong Kong Free Press on April 24, 2025. The following edited version is published as part of a content partnership agreement. A survey conducted by the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) has found that the majority of its members said their working environment had changed for the worse over the past two years. Sixty-nine members took part in the FCC’s biannual Press Freedom Survey between December 2024 and February 2025.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Balkan Diskurs |Filip Noubel |Daria Dergacheva |Jean de Dieu SOVON
The Roma are the largest minority group in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and are commonly exposed to prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion. Almir Agić, a 22-year-old Roma man from Ilijaš, near Sarajevo, fights prejudice with poetry and art, giving a voice to those who are invisible in society.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Daria Dergacheva |Balkan Diskurs |Jean de Dieu SOVON
War often reduces entire cultures and countries to one over-simplified narrative, particularly in the domain of news. Ukraine was first invaded by Russia in 2014, and then again in 2022, and that story dominates the vast majority of media coverage on Ukraine, given the extent of death and destruction, but also the resistance demonstrated by the Ukrainian people. But Ukraine is also home to its own multilingual and multiethnic literature, music, and art that cannot ignore war but is more than war.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva |Balkan Diskurs |Jean de Dieu SOVON
This article was originally published in Russian on April 17, 2025, on Novaya Vkladka, a content partner of Global Voices. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity, and is republishing it with permission from Novaya Vkladka. In early April, an unusual passenger was traveling by bus from Volgograd to Moscow — a bat. It was being transported for treatment at the Moscow Zoo.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Malka Older |Daria Dergacheva |Mong Palatino |Mohamed Mohamud
This article was originally published in Russian on March 25, 2025, on Baikal People. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity, and is republishing it with permission. People's names have been changed for safety. In the spring of 2024, US authorities began sending Russians who crossed the US–Mexico border to request political asylum into detention centers en masse.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Pamela Ephraim |Daria Dergacheva
Many developing countries receive development aid from USAID, a US government agency. The agency’s sudden freeze on funding will likely halt the progress of several African programs. Every year, the United States pledges more than USD 40 billion to humanitarian aid and international development in developing countries. In Africa, Togo is one of the countries where this aid plays a vital role in many aspects of its community development: education, health, security, and governance.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
globalvoices.org | Eastern Europe |Daria Dergacheva |Anna Romandash
The pause in foreign aid imposed by the new US administration has adversely affected numerous civil society, human rights and independent media projects in the Western Balkans. While the exact number of affected organizations is hard to estimate, they range in the hundreds.
