Tanya Lokot

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Eastern Europe Editor · Joined 4 February 2015 · 97 posts

I am a researcher based in Dublin, Ireland. I study protest, digital media and internet freedom in Eastern Europe and beyond.

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Latest posts by Tanya Lokot

Unfreedom Monitor Report: Russia

An excerpt from Advox research on digital authoritarianism in Russia

Written by Tanya Lokot

25 August 2022

How Russia makes laws to support networked authoritarianism

Russian legislation is creating an alternative reality of the internet

Written by Tanya Lokot

15 April 2022

Court in Russia-occupied Crimea sentences freelance journalist to six years in prison

Press freedom advocates have been calling for Yesypenko’s immediate release

Written by Tanya Lokot

17 February 2022

Russia rose to second place globally in Twitter content removal requests

Russian government entities made 10,448 takedown requests

Written by Tanya Lokot

29 January 2022

Belarusian cyberactivists claim railway system hack to protest Russian troop movements

Russian troops in Belarus heighten fears of possible Ukraine invasion

Written by Tanya Lokot

25 January 2022

Google removes YouTube ads featuring interrogations of Belarusian political prisoners

Opposition activists said the video ads violated YouTube's platform policies

Written by Tanya Lokot

4 January 2022

Russian censors block website of legal aid non-profit OVD-Info

OVD-Info is a key human rights defense project in Russia

Written by Tanya Lokot

27 December 2021

Belarus authorities block access to more independent media added to extremist list

Media crackdown in Belarus now targeting foreign outlets and readers

Written by Tanya Lokot

5 November 2021

Ahead of September elections, Russia tightens grip on remaining online freedoms

"It's going to get worse, as we all know."

Written by Tanya Lokot

16 September 2021

Investigative journalism group OCCRP says it will no longer work in Russia

Multiple OCCRP partners in Russia were designated as "foreign agents"

Written by Tanya Lokot

15 September 2021

Russian court issues bigger fines to social media companies for breaching data localization rules

Social media giants have heretofore ignored Russia's data localization demands

Written by Tanya Lokot

26 August 2021

Blogger gets prison sentence for branding Kazakhstan's language policies “russophobic”

Kazakhstan's history with Russian language and ethnic Russians is complicated

Written by Tanya Lokot

23 August 2021

More independent media added to Russia's “foreign agent” roster

Dozhd and iStories join a host of other media and NGOs

Written by Tanya Lokot

20 August 2021

Belarus court labels independent media outlets Tut.by, Zerkalo.io as ‘extremist’

Tut.by had previously taken its social media archives offline

Written by Tanya Lokot

13 August 2021

Russian internet censor blocks Team Navalny websites

The state designated Navalny’s movement and campaign networks as “extremist organizations”

Written by Tanya Lokot

26 July 2021

Team 29, Russia's most prominent legal defense group, shuts down under state pressure

The organisation has long been a thorn in Kremlin's side

Written by Tanya Lokot

21 July 2021

State escalates attacks on media freedom and civil society in Belarus

Lukashenka's crackdown on media and civil society reached unprecedented scale

Written by Tanya Lokot

20 July 2021

Top Belarusian media website removes social media posts to protect employees

Belarusian Interior Ministry wants to label the news portal as "extremist."

Written by Tanya Lokot

30 June 2021

Organiser of online map protest in Russia fined for crowdsourced obscenities

Virtual rallies are a relatively new form of resistance in Russia

Written by Tanya Lokot

15 June 2021

New report highlights ongoing pressure on Ukrainian activists and rights defenders

Ukraine's civil liberties and human rights status remains precarious.

Written by Tanya Lokot

2 June 2021

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