Tag: Belarus

EASTERN EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST FUND

14.03.2022 A group of over 25 media support organizations is launching the Eastern European Independent Journalist Fund to pay for stories produced by Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian journalists who are reporting the truth on the war despite the enormous risks.

SOM DIKTÁTOR A JE PRE MŇA ŤAŽKÉ CHÁPAŤ DEMOKRACIU

12.03.2022 Článok vyšiel v Denníku N a vznikol v rámci projektu SlovakAid Fellowship Programme for Change Leaders.

MEDIA REGULATION DURING ELECTIONS & REFERENDUM IN BELARUS

27.02.2022 The aim of the policy paper prepared by MEMO 98's senior analyst Veronica Laputska was to analyze the Belarusian legislation and practices regulating the media during elections and referenda ahead of the 27 February 2022 Constitutional referendum.

WE STRONGLY CONDEMN CONTINUOUS BRUTALITY AGAINST FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN BELARUS

24.05.2021 MEMO 98 supports the statement by of major Slovak media on the kidnapping of Raman Protasevich by Lukashenka's regime

OUT OF TOUCH

13.08.2020 Belarusians no longer prepared to play along with Lukashenka’s flawed election By not inviting international election observers, Lukashenka made an early statement that he would try to hold onto power no matter what. But he might have miscalculated...

VYHLÁSENIE SKUPINY OBČANOV SR K UDALOSTIAM V BIELORUSKU

10.08.2020 Proti volebnej fraške a policajnej brutalite! Za slobodu Bieloruska!

ELECTION MONITORS: LUKASHENKA USED EVERY TRICK IN HIS OUTDATED PLAYBOOK TO SURVIVE

10.08.2020 The presidential election in Belarus fell well short of international standards for transparent, free and fair elections, and saw a clear attempt by the authorities to manipulate the outcome, according to independent election monitoring organisations.

LUKASHENKA'S PROPAGANDA MODEL BREAKS IN FACE OF SOCIAL MEDIA MOVEMENT

10.08.2020 Source: Radio Liberty INTRODUCTION Between 29 April – 19 May (first monitoring period) and 3 – 23 June 2020 (second monitoring period), MEMO 98, a Slovak non-profit specialist media-monitoring organization, in cooperation with the Eurasian...

AN ANALOG CAMPAIGN IN A DIGITAL AGE: LUKASHENKA FALTERS IN THE FACE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

03.08.2020 President Lukashenko has tried to play down the upcoming election as an unnecessary distraction from business as usual, but an active social media movement has shown the public is no longer prepared to go along with an alternate reality, according to a new...

HOW TO MAINTAIN INTEGRITY OF ELECTIONS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

01.05.2020 As the world faces its worse pandemic in over a century, there is little doubt where the virus originated and how it spread to the rest of the world. Nevertheless, it has become the subject of a massive propaganda and disinformation campaign,...