Public Media Is Not All About News
Hungary’s captured public broadcaster has gone dark. Rebuilding it should mean strengthening the information ecosystem, not recreating the old news machine. From Media Finance Monitor – Center for Sustainable Media.
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Solutions Journalism
Schools for All
Long consigned to lower-quality schools, Roma in two Czech communities are doing well in mainstream schools thanks to innovative reforms and local political support. From Okraj.
Ukraine Breaks Crucial ‘Link’ to Healing Foreign Soldiers
Red tape has dealt a serious blow to a grassroots Belarusian-Ukrainian project that has successfully rehabilitated hundreds of volunteers who fought for Ukraine.
Rewilding Amid War in the Danube Delta
Even as Russia’s war scars the landscape, conservationists in southern Ukraine are reintroducing lost species to restore Europe’s largest wetland, showing how nature recovery can persist amid conflict.
Ten Saturdays That Might Save a Profession
“The task was insane: prepare someone in a very short time so they can sit at a news desk and not drown.”
How Ukrainian Women are Turning Mourning Into Meaning
“That I was helping others saved me from falling into the abyss of grief,” says the co-founder of a support group.
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Commentary
The Captured Revolution Turns on Itself
Kyrgyzstan’s president rewrites the constitution to give himself more power, crushes his only serious rival, and continues to stifle dissent.
Opinion: A Farewell to Hungary’s Most Harmful State Institution
On paper, the Sovereignty Protection Office was set up to defend Hungarian national interests. Instead, it attacked activists and journalists who stood up for a more decent and just Hungary. From Telex.
Hungarian Thaw, Slovak Freeze: How the Post-Orban Era Could Chill Relations on the Danube
The alliance between Viktor Orban and Robert Fico long kept Slovak-Hungarian tensions buried. But with Peter Magyar’s rise in Hungary and economic trouble at home, Fico may turn to anti-Hungarian nationalism in his reelection campaign. From ECFR.
The Bangaranga Effect
A catchy song lifts Bulgarian hearts with the assurance that their trademark matters on a global stage.
Latest News
The Autocracy Trap and the Fight for Freedom
Has the modern world truly fallen into an autocracy trap with no way out? Speakers at the Lviv Media Forum (LMF) 2026 say freedom is still possible, but it won’t come without a fight. From Rubryka.
Belarus’s Highwire Act Teeters Under Russian Pressure
With Russia’s war in Ukraine shifting in Kyiv’s favor, Vladimir Putin might look to his Belarusian ally to open a new front. But there would be serious drawbacks for Minsk. From The Conversation.
‘To Compose a Sentence Was to Take a Moral Stance’
Remembering the Croatian journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, who sought to evoke the life of the single individual in a way that made empathy possible. From Eurozine.
Czech Communism: From Resilience to the Brink
The Czech Communist Party survived the transition to democracy to be an influential political force, but is now sliding towards irrelevance.
Reform UK’s Montenegrin Connection
Why are some of Britain’s most controversial far-right figures all operating out of a grubby office in a town of 11,000 people in the Balkans? From openDemocracy.
