On Tuesday 8 March, TaRC and Russian Media Lab‘s (University of Helsinki) collaborative project Online Talks on Russian Media will discuss Russian independent media and crisis.
The session focuses on the following topics: How are the Russian independent media and journalists working in times of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine? What are their roles and possibilities for reporting in the period of information war? How does e.g. the law on foreign agents and other restrictions affect their work? How does the future for independent media look?
This time, the session takes the form of a panel discussion with the following participants:
- Veera Laine, postdoctoral fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs;
- Ekaterina Abashina, lawyer, Roskomsvoboda, Russian NGO focusing on digital rights of journalists and internet users;
- Aleksander Amzin, independent media expert, works in Latvia.
This Online Talk will be organized on Zoom on Tuesday 8 March from 12:00 to 13:30 (Helsinki time, GMT+2). The discussion will be moderated by Dr Katja Lehtisaari (Tampere University) and Dr Olga Dovbysh (University of Helsinki).
If you want to participate and get emails about the next Online Talks, please leave your contact information here by noon on Monday 7 March. If you have registered for Online Talks or the RMLN email list before, no need to register again! We’ll send you the information.
NB! If you are interested in the discussion but are not familiar with independent Russian media, you can get yourself up to speed beforehand by taking a look at an interview with TaRC’s Sanna Turoma on aamulehti.fi on February 26 (in Finnish). Note though that the situation for many independent media in Russia has changed since the interview.