Even the mildest story about cats won’t escape the censors in Turkey right now. For months, we’ve been covering President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ever-expanding crackdown on Turkish journalists and publishers, instigated in response to the attempted coup last summer. The… Read more »

For some reason, the Russian activist and blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky’s arrest and detention in October for filming himself playing Pokémon Go in a church in Yekaterinburg didn’t seem to attract quite the same… Read more »