East Europe

RFE/RL’s Belarus Service, Radio Svaboda, is devoting all of today’s broadcasts and online stories to the plight of Belarusian political prisoners.

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.”

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.

After weeks of fierce debate, the EU has decided to include Belarus in an outreach plan for ex-Soviet states. But a leader of Belarus’ pro-democracy movement told RFE/RL that Europe…

Two days before Belarusians head to the polls for parliamentary elections, an EU official told a crowd at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Washington, D.C. office that “these elections will…

One month after being released from prison, prominent Belarusian opposition leader Alyaksandr Kazulin gave an interview to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Belarusian Service from RFE/RL’s Washington, D.C. studios.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has launched a new half-hour television program aimed at Belarusians who have come to rely on RFE/RL for uncensored news and information about their country.

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…

Romanian President Trajan Basescu today presented awards to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and the BBC in recognition of their decades of broadcasts to Romania, which are scheduled to end…

After nearly 60 years of providing uncensored news and information to the people of Romania, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Romanian-language service will cease broadcasting to Romania on August 1, 2008.