Turks have grown accustomed to circumventing the government’s ban on video-sharing website YouTube. But what kind of legal precedent does the ban set – and what does it say about Turkey’s respect for freedom of the media? More
Vasily Aksyonov, who died on July 6 after a long illness, was one of the last Soviet-era writers to endure a ban by Kremlin censors and be stripped of his citizenship. The news has rocked his friends, colleagues, and admirers worldwide. "Readers had a special relationship with him," one says. More