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Russia Designates Deutsche Welle as Undesirable Organisation

The Justice Ministry of the Russian Federation officially designated the German state-owned broadcaster Deutsche Welle (hereinafter: DW) as an “undesirable organisation” on 16 December 2025. This administrative decision, reported by Deutsche Welle and Reuters, effectively bans the broadcaster’s operations within the territory of the Russian Federation and criminalises any association with the outlet for Russian...

UNESCO Conference Focuses on Uzbekistan Heritage and Media Literacy

The 43rd General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (hereinafter: UNESCO) formally opened in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on 31 October 2025. This event marks the first instance that Uzbekistan has hosted the biennial General Conference, which is the organisation’s highest decision-making body. The conference gathers representatives from over 190 member states to...

AI Assistants Misrepresent News 50% of the Time

A large-scale international study published on 22 October 2025, has revealed that leading AI assistants frequently misrepresent news content, presenting faulty responses to questions almost half the time. The research, co-ordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (hereinafter: EBU) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (hereinafter: BBC), assessed the performance of four major AI assistants, including OpenAI’s...

The USA Curse

When we open a newspaper, news broadcast or any other news-related media channel, the chance of crossing a headline at the very beginning of that respective media channel or platform that directly refers to the United States of America (hereinafter: USA) is extremely high. Intuitive explanations would certainly point to the fact that the USA...

Is Political Correctness Politically Correct?

The idea of political correctness has risen in recent years and has become part of the political discourse in many nations. It is a very young concept, as it appeared shortly after the Russian Revolution in the first quarter of the 20th century. Although the term “political correctness” originally meant to evaluate someone’s or something’s...

Problems in Political Discourse

Politics is a matter that is of interest to everyone because our lives are directly affected by it. The way politics and its outcomes are structured determines the accessibility, effectiveness and efficiency of genuine knowledge production, which is ultimately the goal of our being. Therefore, it is natural that politics is a topic of popular...