Central Asia
Bipartisan Group Of U.S. Lawmakers Urge Rahmon To End Pressure On RFE/RL’s Tajik Service
A group of U.S. lawmakers has sent a letter to the Tajik President urging him to help end pressure and threats to RFE/RL’s Tajik Service journalists.
RFE/RL President Describes Media Challenges During CSCE Hearing
In testimony before the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) earlier this week, RFE/RL President Jamie Fly addressed the increased pressure faced by RFE/RL journalists.
RFE/RL’s Jamie Fly Visits Kyrgyzstan
On a visit this week to Kyrgyzstan, RFE/RL President Jamie Fly met with Kyrgyz Republic President Sadyr Japarov and Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev.
Threats To RFE/RL Journalists Multiply As World Marks Press Freedom Day
Media freedom is under severe pressure throughout RFE/RL’s 23-country coverage region.
Briefly… Malali Bashir On Reporting From War Zones
We ask RFE/RL journalist Malali Bashir about the challenges faced by reporters.
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Russia: Official Pressure Rising Against RFE/RL
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists have come under severe pressure in recent weeks, as local authorities clamp down on the right of RFE/RL reporters to work legally and safely.
‘Listen, Listen! This is Radio Azatlyk.’
“Listen, listen! This is Radio Azatlyk,” said Myrat Tachmyrat, announcing Radio Liberty’s first Turkmen language broadcast on March 1, 1953.
A Leader In Courage And Innovation, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service Wins Burke Award
RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service was expelled from Uzbekistan in 2005 by then-President Islam Karimov. Only months before, Uzbek security service forces opened fire at peaceful protesters in the southeastern city of…
On World Press Freedom Day, Coronavirus Multiplies Challenges Facing Independent Media
“Today the state has a new ‘stick’ – ‘fake news’ about the coronavirus,” says journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, a contributor to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Russian Service.
Briefly…RFE/RL’s Tajik Service On Media Freedom
Acting Managing Editor of RFE/RL’s Tajik Service, Sirojiddin Tolibov, explains how the Service reports on one of the most authoritarian countries in the world.