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Bypassing sanctions

Source: Frycz&Wicha

EU imposed sanctions on selected goods shipped to Russia and Belarus. Few transport companies found a way to transport them anyway, despite restrictions. Border Guard maintains that our borders are shut tight, and controls are thorough. We have decided to verify that claim, and found a Polish company that agreed to transport restricted wares.

FRONTSTORY.PL

04.05.2022

Source: rsf.org/en/index

Situation in Visegrad Four countries reflects broader trends – as Reporters Without Borders (RSF) note in World Press Freedom Index 2022, whole European Union is caught between two extremes.

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05.05.2022

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A destroyed car. Source: Paweł Reszka

Notes from Ukraine written by Paweł Reszka, journalist of “Polityka” magazine, originally posted in Polish on his Facebook account.

Paweł Reszka

08.04.2022

Source: James O'Brien / OCCRP

For almost a month, as a part of a joint investigation carried out by OCCRP and journalists from several media outlets, we have been examining where and how the assets of Russian oligarchs are hidden in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

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13.04.2022

Source: Frycz i Wicha

Since the war started, the anti-vaxxer section has been playing in the Kremlin orchestra, lead by covid denialists and Confederation party members, with Grzegorz Braun at the forefront. Who is behind the anti-vaxxers’ network in Polish social media?

FRONTSTORY.PL

07.04.2022

Source: ORF, Telegram/Víťazstvo svetla, ICJK

Now, more than a month into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the barrage of disinformation about the conflict is intensifying. Pretexts for the war and pro-Kremlin narratives, however, are not being spread by only well-known faces and websites from the Slovak disinformation scene.

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04.04.2022

View on front of Parliament of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary. Source: Karelj / Wikimedia

International Press Institute released a new report assessing challenges for independent journalism in Hungary. We are publishing its key findings.

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23.03.2022

The Logo of the International Criminal Court in Hague. Source: Friemann / Shutterstock

the non-profit charity EyeWitness launched a Ukrainian version of a special app for collecting evidence of alleged Russian and Belarusian war crimes at the beginning of March. Videos and photographs taken through the app could become relevant pieces of evidence in The Hague.