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Twenty years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered. We explore the ways in which authoritarian regimes silence journalists in our time. Welcome to Anna Politkovskaya Forum 2026.Join us for a conversation with Anna’s granddaughter, Anna Politkovskaya, and a full day discussion with leading experts from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Norway, and more.
Program:
09:00 Opening speech
Berit Lindeman, Secretary General, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
09:15 – 09:45 Anna Politkovskaya’s Legacy
A conversation with Anna Politkovskaya (granddaughter).
Moderator: Aage Borchgrevink, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
09:45 – 10:30 From Glasnost to “Forbidden Times”
A conversation with:
John Kvadsheim (Amedia)
Bernhard Mohr (Cappelen Damm)
Knut Olav Åmås (Fritt Ord)
Per Kristian Aale (Aftenposten) TBC
Moderator: Berit Lindeman, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:00 The Cost of Free Speech
A conversation with:
Ekaterina Andreyeva (Belarus)
TBC (Russia)
Slava Abramov (Kazakhstan)
Gülsin Harman (Türkiye)
Moderator TBC
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 13:15 Digital Repression and Trans-National Repression
A conversation with Arzu Geybulla (Access Now)
Moderator: Ivar Dale, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
13:15 – 14:15 Big Tech, Big Amplifiers: Disinformation and Propaganda
A conversation with Norwegian politicians TBC
Moderator: Dag Andreas Fedøy, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
14:15 – 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 – 15:45 Bridging the Gap between Documentation and Accountability:
A conversation with:
Lyubov Smachylo, Media Initiative for Human Rights, Ukraine
Activist from Belarus
Nino Tlashadze, Trust Fund for Victims at the ICC, Georgia
Moderator: Lene Wetteland, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
15:45 – 16:30 Journalism in Wartime
A conversation with Ukrainian journalists TBC
Moderator: Arve Hansen, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
16:30 Closing remarks
16:45 End
Inna Sangadzhieva, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
Evening program:
Film screening – “Die for Putin” – On the recruitment of contract soldiers from Central Asia to Russia’s war in Ukraine
Introduction by director Lukpan Akhmedyarov (Kazakhstan)
This years Anna Politkovskaya Forum is arranged in cooperation with PEN Norway.
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Event venue
Sentralen, Øvre Slottsgate 3,Oslo, Norway
Tickets
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