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To Russia With Love
The “umbrella murder” was Cold War intrigue at its most dramatic. In 1978, RFE/RL and BBC Bulgarian broadcaster Georgi Markov was surreptitiously stabbed in the leg by an umbrella’s poison pellet, courtesy…
Biden to RFE/RL: US Won’t Tolerate Russian Spheres of Influence
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told RFE/RL’s audience around the world today that “America wants to hit the reset button with Russia, not the memory erase button.”
RFE/RL Launching Russian-Language Show to South Ossetia & Abkhazia
Next month, RFE/RL will launch a news program in Russian to the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The new 60-minute daily radio broadcast, called Ekho Kavkaza (Echo of…
Exclusive Nemtsov Interview After Obama Meeting
Shortly after meeting with President Obama in Moscow, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov told RFE/RL that “Russian democracy is our problem, not America’s.”
Jeffrey Gedmin Meets Lithuanian President, Discusses Russian Foreign Policy
RFE/RL President Jeffrey Gedmin was received by President Adamkus last week in Vilnius where he also participated in a panel discussion with the foreign ministers of Lithuania and Georgia.
RFE/RL Continuous Live Coverage of Russian Withdrawal
RFE/RL special correspondent Goga Aptsiauri is one of only a handful of journalists reporting from the besieged town of Gori, in central Georgia. He has been tracking events there since…
Tatarstan President Talks To RFE/RL, Emphasizes Importance of Power-Sharing, Freedom
Mintimer Shaimiev, the president of Russia’s oil-rich, Muslim-majority Republic of Tatarstan, emphasized the importance of his republic’s power-sharing treaty with Russian federal authorities in Moscow as well as the need…
Radio Farda, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Broadcast State of the Union Live to Iran, Afghanistan, Russia
Millions of listeners to Radio Farda in Iran and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Afghanistan and Russia will hear President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address tonight live,…
RFE/RL Russian Broadcasts Expand to UKV Frequency Band
Russian-language programs of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), known locally as Radio Svoboda, will be broadcast 18 hours daily on Radio 1 Center, a local UKV (“Eastern-Band FM,” 66 to…
Dine: Bagrov Conviction An Effort To ‘Silence’ Reporter
RFE/RL Russian Service correspondent Yuri Bagrov was found guilty on December 17 by a court in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, of attempting to use a false document to obtain Russian citizenship…