Sixteen years of authoritarian media policy are over in Hungary. At this pivotal moment, n-ost's kitchen talk asks: what could dismantling what Orbán built actually look like? Join us on 22 April 26 in Berlin with: Dóra Diseri & @dfeher.bsky.social
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2/2 The talk takes place inside our photography exhibition SPOTLIGHTING – Turning the Lens on Journalism. More information: n-ost.org/event/kitche...
1/2 Journalists must hold big tech accountable — while depending on big tech to reach their audiences. That's the paradox at the heart of our next kitchen talk.
Join us next Wednesday in Berlin with: Sabrina Faramarzi, Nico Schmidt, Jasmine Erkan and Alexandra Zeitlin.
We are flooded with news daily, but we rarely get to see media workers behind it. n-ost presents photos and stories of the invisible labour behind news making:
Join us this Friday (6 March 26) for the opening of our photo exhibition SPOTLIGHTING. More information: n-ost.org/projects/spo...
2/2 Andrii Dikhtiarenko described three realities in Luhansk: propaganda, life shaped by fear, and hidden war machinery. Oleh Baturyn and Vladyslav Yesypenko explained how Russia frames Ukraine as aggressor while silencing independent voices.
1/2 Four years since the full-scale invasion: How Russia limits our knowledge of occupation. Our panel at Café Kyiv brought together journalists who survived Russian captivity or lived under occupation to talk about the information blackout about Russian-occupied Ukrainian areas.
2/2 n-ost was born in 2006 from a simple idea: Germans need better information about Eastern Europe. Over time, that spark became an international media NGO. Here's to the bridges built, the skills shared, the stories told.
1/2 Between democratic hope and authoritarian resurgence. Through disinformation and war: For 20 years, n-ost has been nurturing voices that challenge power and connect societies.
Russia systematically targets journalists reporting on occupied Ukrainian territories. Local newsrooms are forced to close and propaganda outlets are put in their place. n-ost is hosting a panel at Café Kyiv on how Russia weaponizes information in its war and which sources remain trustworthy.
1/2 "Cooperation allows media outlets to pool resources and expertise: sharing costs while multiplying the impact." Srbuhi Vardanyan, @civilnet.bsky.social, participant in n-ost’s “Seizing Synergies” project, on the importance of cross-border collaboration for independent media in Eastern Europe.
2/2 Seizing Synergies establishes a shared content database accessible to all partners, strengthening their capacity to report on neighbouring countries with depth and nuance.
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1/2 Introducing "Seizing Synergies": a new cross-border journalism project by n-ost.
Independent media in Eastern Europe are more resilient when they start working in collaboration. Within the project, journalists from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine will create a collaborative desk.
2/2 Join us for a conversation on the current state of global and EU climate action, focusing on challenges and possible solutions.
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1/2 The political landscape has shifted: less focus on the climate crisis, less money for adaptation, more voices denying its urgency. So where does that leave climate action, and who picks up the work when major players step back?
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What do we really know about life under occupation? Join the discussion with:
• Raji Abdul Salam, Chief Legal Data Archivist at @trpforjustice.bsky.social
• Lenie Umerova, Crimean Tatar activist and former prisoner of war
Intensified discussions about possible peace deals between Ukraine and Russia make one question urgent: what does "peace" under Russian control actually look like? Ukraine's occupied territories answer that question. They also risk becoming instruments of political bargaining.
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Within the project “Life Under Occupation”, sixteen journalists from UA, GE FR and PL formed cross-border teams, researched for months, and produced investigations. Join us for the presentation of their work:
Intensified discussions about possible peace deals between Ukraine and Russia make one question urgent: what does "peace" under Russian control actually look like? Ukraine's occupied territories answer that question. They also risk becoming instruments of political bargaining.
We are happy to share publications from “The Climate Content Pool”: stories showing how Ukraine's environmental future is being written today, even as war reshapes the present.
All articles available on the project website: n-ost.org/projects/the...
Strengthening reporting from Eastern Europe - this is the idea behind the Research Prize for
Eastern Europe. The grant offers up to 7.000 Euro for in-depth reporting across 24 countries.
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kitchen talks meet Exile Talks for a conversation about migration narratives in German media. Join us on 12 November, 6-8pm near Jannowitzbrücke, exact address after registration. Discussion with Shammi Haque and Rebecca Roth.
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3/3 Luise Glum for her research on the ecological crisis at Lake Sevan, revealing how climate change creates an impossible dilemma for farmers, fishers, and communities whose survival depends on the Caucasus region's largest freshwater reservoir.
2/3 Karin Finkenzeller for her research on Lviv's solutions for Ukraine's war-injured veterans, documenting rehabilitation centers, prosthetics training programs, and barrier-free urban planning amid changing social attitudes.
1/3 Cross-border journalism that gives voice to underreported stories. Congratulations to the winners of the Recherchepreis Osteuropa 2025:
Resilience instead of resignation. The Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin is a space of conscious presence rather than surrender to despair. We are happy to partner with Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin, presenting contemporary Ukrainian cinema under the motto “The Time We Have Left”.
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2/2 Join us for our next kitchen talk on 15 October, 6-8pm at our NEW address: Berlin, Erkelenzdamm 59/61, Portal 1b, 4th floor. Discussion with documentary photographers Natalia Kepesz & Selene Magnolia Gatti and Gesine Born from Bilderinstitut
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1/2 When AI can generate faces that never existed and scenes that never happened, what becomes of visual truth? kitchen talks are back with a conversation that cuts to the heart of what we see and trust.
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