Russia
Experts Tell RFE/RL Ukrainian Service: President Kuchma Seen as Lame Duck
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who has ruled his country with an iron fist for more than ten years, is no longer a premier player in Ukrainian politics, according to politicians…
RFE/RL Off FM in Kyiv, Cities across Ukraine
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Ukrainian programs were taken off the air today in Kyiv and cities across Ukraine, as the Ukrainian FM Radio Dovira network carried out its threat to…
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…