Information wars

Russia bans International Baccalaureate over ‘Russophobia’

Russia has been increasing its isolation in technology, culture and education.

This content was published on Aug 29, 2025 Russia bans International Baccalaureate: Students lose access to global diplomas as Kremlin tightens educational isolation.

On August 13, Roskomnadzor, the state media regulator, restricted calls on WhatsApp and Telegram, calling them “main voice services used to deceive and extort money, and to involve Russian citizens in sabotage and terrorist activities”

Foreign Affairs

Behind Russia’s digital Iron Curtain: how the West and Switzerland look online

This content was published on Aug 29, 2025 We demonstrate how Russia’s digital Iron Curtain works with and without a VPN. [Spoiler: Swissinfo’s website doesn’t load in the country without one.]

Swiss position

Patrick Chappatte: ‘The path for satire has been getting narrower’

This content was published on Jun 24, 2025 Patrick Chappatte is one of the most prolific cartoonists. We talked to him about the current state of satire, media and free speech in the world.

people looking at vote information in a window

Democracy

A delicate export: how Swiss foreign policy promotes democracy

This content was published on Jun 13, 2025 Switzerland has a constitutional mandate to promote democracy around the world. What happens when that world starts looking more authoritarian?

Information wars

Habteab Yemane: high court judge in Eritrea, refugee in Switzerland

This content was published on May 19, 2025 Habteab Yemane became a lawyer because he believed in a constitutional state, but his journey led him somewhere else entirely.

Concerned about democracy, Ignazio Cassis appeals to the media

Information wars

Swiss foreign minister calls on media to defend democracy

This content was published on May 15, 2025 Swiss foreign minister Ignazio Cassis says the media has a vital role to play in the preservation of democracy.

The Swiss government wants greater access to personal data.

International Geneva

Proposed Swiss surveillance law ‘identical to Russia’

This content was published on May 14, 2025 Encrypted email service Proton threatens to leave Switzerland to escape proposed data surveillance law updates.

Information wars

International public media face uncertain future in democracies

This content was published on Apr 25, 2025 More and more Western governments are paring down their funding for international public media, even as authoritarian regimes beef theirs up.

A giant light installation of the flag of Switzerland, by Swiss artist Gerry Hofstetter, illuminates the north face of the Jungfrau mountain, next to the Eiger and Moench mountains, near the city of Thun, in 2012.

Information wars

How Switzerland and other states are navigating disinformation

This content was published on Apr 6, 2025 How can the Alpine state navigate the dangers of hybrid warfare – and what are other European countries doing?

Tibetan and Uyghur people paused for a moment of silence to honor all victims at a rally on the Place des Nations in front of the United Nations' European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 16, 2016. Now, in addition to speaking up for the Tibetans in China, they're pushing the Swiss government to take action to protect themselves from transnational repression.

Swiss diplomacy

Chinese repression of Tibetans and Uyghurs: ‘Switzerland must take action now’

This content was published on Mar 17, 2025 Are countries such as Switzerland doing enough to protect its people from transnational repression by China?

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