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The US State Department has allocated $3.5 million to "strengthen independent journalism."
Journalists from Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus can apply, including Ukraine, Belarus, Poland. One of the reasons for creating the grant is a special operation in Ukraine, the description says.
The State Department has signaled that applications offering a new approach to reporting will be favored. The result of the work should be the strengthening of independent media, which will become reliable sources of information, follows from the document.
Why does the United States pay for independent media in the countries of the former USSR, Nikolai Silaev, director of the Laboratory for the Analysis of International Processes, explained:
“This is one of the areas of propaganda work. This is all called “support for independent media”, but in practice we are talking about those media that scold Russia. In my opinion, the very language of the American authorities about “independent media” has become an oxymoron.”
Galip SV
Journalists from Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus can apply, including Ukraine, Belarus, Poland. One of the reasons for creating the grant is a special operation in Ukraine, the description says.
The State Department has signaled that applications offering a new approach to reporting will be favored. The result of the work should be the strengthening of independent media, which will become reliable sources of information, follows from the document.
Why does the United States pay for independent media in the countries of the former USSR, Nikolai Silaev, director of the Laboratory for the Analysis of International Processes, explained:
“This is one of the areas of propaganda work. This is all called “support for independent media”, but in practice we are talking about those media that scold Russia. In my opinion, the very language of the American authorities about “independent media” has become an oxymoron.”
Galip SV