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This is a list of selected media sources from the regions commonly grouped together as the former Soviet Bloc eastern europe. The list was compiled because of the potentially fragile nature of the freedom of the press in newly emergent democracies in the regions concerned. To provide more annotated links to media sources from this region, please e-mail admin@pwhce.org |
| Title/Name | Description | Stable | Languages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Eastern and Central European News | ||||
| Central Europe Review | News and articles on Eastern Europe, Central Europe and Middle Europe (ie, includes Austria and Germany). | Independent | English | |
| News from the East - The Former Soviet Socialist Republics | ||||
| Russian News | ||||
| NTV | NTV - National television station. Was only nation-wide television station independent of government until taken over by Gazprom. | Formerly Media-Most Now Gazprom (govt) | Russian | |
| Itogi | Itogi - Formerly Media-Most, taken over by Gazprom and staff sacked. Note: Some previous Itogi team members have set up "Real Itogi" (see below). | Formerly Sem Dnei (Media-Most) Now Gazprom (govt). | Russian | |
| Real Itogi | Rebel online continuation of Itogi, hosted on lentra.ru's website. | Formerly Media-Most Now Lentra. | Russian | |
| lentra.ru | Lentra - not to be confused with lenta.ru. | Lentra.ru | Russian | |
| lenta (Russian)/Allnews (English) | lenta.ru is not to be confused with lentra.ru. | Media-Most | Russian, English | |
| Media-Most | Media division of Gusinsky's company, now largely dismembered by Russian government agencies. | Most | Russian | |
| Gazeta | Gazeta | ? | Russian, English | |
| Net Media | NetMedia.ru is an independent Russian media site. | Independent | English | |
| Strana | A media site/company. Various TV station, radio station and newspaper pages are also hosted on the strana site and share its domain. | Strana (?) | Russian, English | |
| TV RTR | TV station on the Strana site. | Strana (?) | Russian, English | |
| TV "Kultura" | TV station on the Strana site. | Strana (?) | Russian, English | |
| Radio Rossii | Radio Russia (Rossii). | Strana (?) | Russian, English | |
| Mayak Radio | Radio Station on the Strana site. | Strana (?) | Russian, English | |
| St Petersberg TRC | ? | Strana (?) | Russian, English | |
| Vesti RTR | "Vesti" RTR - connected to Strana | Strana? | Russian | |
| Sreda | Russian online media journal. Site hosted by internews.ru | Independent | English? | |
| The Moscow Times | The Moscow Times newspaper online. High standard of journalistic integrity. | Independent | English | |
| Public Examination of Media Freedoms | A web project to examine/measure the level of Media freedom in different countries | Independent | English (Russian Available(?)) | |
| Sovietskaya Rossiya | Russian Soviet-Era publication still publishing online as rednews.ru | Russian | ||
| TheMoscowTimes Feature | Postmortem/Feature on the Gazprom-MediaMost affair. | Independent | English | |
| The Ukraine | ||||
| Ukraine Weekly | The Ukraine Weekly is an emigre publication originally established in 1933 to publicise the Ukrainian famine precipitated by the policies of Iosif Stalin. Its sister publication Svoboda (Freedom) was founded in 1893 but also established an english language translation in response to the famine. | Independent | English | |
| Kuraev.ru | Ukrainian emigre page. | Independent | Ukrainian | |
| Belarusia | ||||
| Belarusian Association of Journalists | The Belarusian Association of Journalists - News related to the press in Belarusia | Independent | Belarusian English | |
| Belarusian PEN Centre | The Belarusian branch of the International PEN, a writers' group. | English Belarusian Russian | ||
| Belarusian Chronicle | "News From/About Belarus". This webpage seems to have ceased publication on the 19th March 1999, and now stands as if frozen on that date. An interesting feature is the document Charter'97, based on Czechoslovakia's Charter 77. | Independent | English | |
The Baltic States (no sites) | ||||
| News from Central Europe Note: Central Europe Review is accessible in the general section. | ||||
| Poland (no sites) | ||||
| Czech Republic | ||||
| Radio Prague | Radio Prague contains live broadcasts, articles, news, audio on demand, columns, czech history, travel information and much more, in six languages: Czech English German Russian French and Spanish. | Czech English German Russian French Spanish | ||
| Jan Culik | Webpage of Czech media critic Jan Culik. | Independent | Czech and English | |
| Slovakia (no sites) Hungary (no sites) | ||||
| The Balkans/Southeast Europe | ||||
| Southeast European Times | Southeast European Times creports on regional politics and other news daily (except Saturdays), in a very wide range of languages. A wide range of resources (maps, country info, who's who, etc) is also available from the page (you may need to scroll right). | English, Shqip (Albanian), Bulgarian, Hrvatski (Croatian), Greek, Macedonian, Romanian, Srpski (Serbian - both Latin and Cyrillic), Turkish. | ||
| Slovenian News (no sites) Croatian News (no sites) Bosnian News (no sites) | ||||
| Serbian News | ||||
| Radio B92 | This radio station-cum-website became famous by continuing to broadcast independent news content under the Milosevic regime. | Independent | English and Serbian | |
| Vojvodina News | A news outlet from the Serbian province of Vojvodina. The webpage appears only in Serbo-croatian, in Latin script. | Serbo-croatian | ||
| Romanian News (no sites) | ||||
| Albanian News | ||||
| Albanian Daily News | Albanian Daily News appears in both Albanian (Shqip) and English. | Albanian (Shqip), English | ||
| Macedonian News (no sites) | ||||
| Bulgaria | ||||
| The Monitor/Zone 168 | Zona 168 (Zone 168) is part of the Monitor Press Agency. It is a daily news source appearing only in Bulgarian. | Bulgarian. | ||
| Focus News | Focus is also only in Bulgarian. PWHCE found it advertised on Zone 168 (above). | Bulgarian. | ||