Russia

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…

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.

A new report examining press freedoms throughout the world demonstrates that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcasts to some of the most closed societies on earth.

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…

Two thirds of Russian voters do not believe parliamentary elections to be held next month will be “honest” or fair, according to a poll commissioned by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today the U.S. will continue to view Russia as a strategic partner “until and unless it proves otherwise”.

Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek today called for intensified international pressure on the Russian government to uphold the rule of law and freedom of expression.

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…

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov was a guest in the Kyiv studio of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service on March 15.