The latest high-level soldier to be locked up in Russia is Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the Army General Staff and head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces. Accused of taking large-scale bribes, he was placed in preventive detention for two months. A few hours later the news arrived that a senior official of the Ministry of Defense, Vladimir Verteletsky, had also been arrested. According to the Russian Investigative Committee, he was accused of abuse of authority in carrying out a state defense order. Five senior Russian defense officials have been handcuffed in less than a month but it is not yet clear how far the purge of the Russian army will go. Meanwhile, a report by Meduza tells how Russia is using a secret fleet of ships to transport oil all over the world, and thus avoid sanctions, and what the West is doing to stop it: we talk about it with Alberto Zanconato, ANSA correspondent from Fly. | The European Association for Journalism Training (EJTA) organizes research at European level on important topics in journalism training. This year, Ejta teaching members gathered in Porto, Portugal, two weeks ago for the teachers’ general states in anticipation of the European elections. On this occasion, the members brought to maximum implementation the Factcheck.eu project which aims to carry out in-depth fact checking of all the declarations and electoral programs of European politicians, with forms of investigation on national and transnational open sources: we speak with Laura Silvia Battaglia, journalist, documentary maker, expert in conflict zones and voice of Radio3 Mondo. | Communicating Africa not only in relation to crises, conflicts and poverty and considering it to all intents and purposes one of the social, cultural and economic contexts to take into consideration in our time: these are the objectives hoped for by the “Mediated Africa” report, the dossier that AMREF has been publishing for five years precisely to understand how the continent is described by the Italian media. In this fifth edition, in addition to the quantitative analysis, African youth and female activism, an extremely lively reality, has been mapped in television programs and on social networks with respect to some relevant issues such as the environment, health, art and the culture. From the data collected, it emerges that African activists are talked about very little in the Italian media: of the total interviewees on prime time TV news (50,573), there is just one African activist for every 919 people: we talked about it with Roberta Rughetti, deputy director of Amref Health Africa. At the microphones, Anna Maria Giordano.
24 May 2024
