by CBBSS | Jul 23, 2021 | Regional News
Ukraine’s security services (SBU) have announced four of their six theories surrounding the murder of Belarusian investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet, who was killed in a car bombing in Kiev on Wednesday. The SBU theories include Sheremet’s work as a...
by CBBSS | Jul 21, 2021 | Regional News
In lockstep with its ally Turkey, Azerbaijan is cracking down on institutions linked to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, the man Ankara accuses of the plotting the Turkish coup attempt. Since the coup attempt, Baku has blocked a private broadcaster over plans to air...
by CBBSS | Jul 21, 2021 | Regional News
Erdogan declared a three-month sate of emergency in Turkey, which will give the Turkish president and his cabinet radically enhanced powers, the BBC reports. Erdogan and his cabinet can now bypass parliament when drafting new laws, and they can impose curfews,...
by CBBSS | Jul 20, 2021 | Regional News
Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet, 44, was killed Wednesday morning when his car exploded in the heart of Kiev, RFE/RL reports. Sheremet was driving to work at the time. He had been working as a journalist and radio host in Kiev for five years. Sheremet previously...
by CBBSS | Jul 13, 2021 | International News and Analysis
A bne IntelliNews piece states Russia used to provide a safety valve to Kremlin critics, but ahead of September’s parliamentary elections, Moscow is ratcheting up the pressure on the little independent media that remains in the country and is going so far as to...
