Russia
Dine Calls Affiliate’s Decision to Drop Ukrainian Broadcasts ‘Political’
RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine condemned as “a political act” a decision today by the management of Ukrainian radio broadcaster “Dovira” to remove RFE/RL Ukrainian Service programming from its FM…
Dine Concerned About Possible Yklymov Extradition
RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine expressed his profound concern today about the safety and welfare of Orazmuhammet Yklymov, a freelance journalist with RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service in Moscow.
RFE/RL Committed to Reporting in Russia, Dine Says
The President of RFE/RL said today that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to revoke the 10-year-old decree that allowed the service to establish a Moscow bureau would in no way…
RFE/RL Begins North Caucasus Broadcasts
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc. launched broadcasts today to the North Caucasus in the Avar, Chechen, and Circassian languages.
RFE/RL Plans Broadcasts To North Caucasus
RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine has announced that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has begun the planning process for broadcasts in Avar, Chechen and Circassian to the peoples who speak those…
Dine Condemns Efforts to Intimidate RFE/RL
RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine today condemned efforts by people representing themselves as officials of Ukrainian intelligence services to intimidate Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in order to influence its coverage…
Dine Criticizes Court’s Upholding Of Babitsky Conviction
Thomas A. Dine, the president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, criticized the decision of an appeals court in Russia’s Daghestani republic today to uphold a guilty verdict against RFE/RL correspondent…
Dine Decries Guilty Verdict At Babitsky Trial
RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine said in Moscow today that he was “disappointed by a judge’s decision to find Andrei Babitsky guilty of the charges the Russian authorities had brought…