Report Archive

"The view of the world has been Americanised"

The renowned journalist Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, 75, became known to a wider public during the Cold War era through her sensitive reporting from Poland and Czechoslovakia for ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Service). Marion Krasek, Vienna correspondent for "Spiegel", has reported on the Balkans, where she has family roots, for over ten years. Two different generations of journalists speak about the working conditions for Eastern European reporters today and in the past.

Understanding the East

n-ost, a flourishing network of journalists with its headquarters in Berlin, wants to awaken an interest in Eastern Europe by presenting it from an unprejudiced viewpoint and dispensing with established clichés. An interview with the journalist Matthias Echterhagen, managing director of n-ost.

Ukraine: the press is free but it can be bought

Journalists in most of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) do not have an easy life. They battle against censorship, difficulties strewn in their path by the authorities, and even at times against physical threats and violence. A cliché? To some extent admittedly, as the situation in Ukraine appears to be different: in Europe's largest country there is something resembling freedom of the press.

From Prostitute to Respectable Lady

Has Russia got an image problem or a reality problem? The former Soviet dissident and controversial anti-western TV presenter Mikhail Leontjev in conversation with "Report".

Media: What should I be afraid of ?

In an interview with Eduard Steiner Jewgenija Albaz offers insights into the everyday world of a journalist in an authoritarian state, in which human rights are of little account

The man who gave second chances

In official Chechnya people who think differently are extremely rare. One last of them has died: Buvadi Dachijev.
This article from September 21, 2006 is the last that Anna Politkovskaya († October 7, 2006) published in the ­russian newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”. She was murdered on October 7 in her apartment building.

Eastern Europe in the media: clichés or facts?

Event tip: N-OST MEDIA CONFERENCE

"Tiger State or Poor House? Romania's importance in the EU" is the title of the n-ost media conference 2008, to be held in Bucharest from 1 to 5 October.

Book tip: Eastern expansion as reported in the press

This book is directed towards all those who are interested in the European Union and its presentation in the media as well as in the development of a European public realm.

Journalists tip: Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence

In conjunction with the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung the ERSTE Foundation supports the free formation of opinion in the region.

Bogomir Doringer: The Valiant Little Tailor

This year, the young Serbian fashion designer Bogomir Doringer was nominated for the Kontakt. Fashion Award by Erste Bank 2008.

Jakub Polanka: “Fashion is the poetry of the 21st century.”

Czech fashion designer Jakub Polanka is the winner of the “Kontakt Fashion Award 2008”. His fashion seems cool, but behind it there is a poetic concept.