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RFE/RL's Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellows standing around a podium on a visit to DC.

RFE/RL’s Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellows Visit Washington, D.C.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellows visited Washington, D.C. last week.

Militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) pose for photo in the northern Kunduz Province.

Central Asia in Focus: June 14, 2022

Tashkent police said on June 8 that some 250 members of extremist groups had been identified in Uzbekistan since the start of 2022.

Michael Douglas, Stefania & Kateryna Yesypenko at the 2022 PEN America Gala.

Journalists in Trouble: June 2022

RFE/RL journalists beaten and threatened in Tajikistan; Azerbaijani journalist threatened at knifepoint; Pulitzer Prize board honors Ukrainian journalists; and more.

Andrey Kuznechyk Headshot

RFE/RL Journalist Andrey Kuznechyk Sentenced to Six Years in Prison in Belarus

Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Belarus Service, was sentenced on June 8 to six years in a maximum-security prison.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Kyiv. June 6, 2022

Zelenskyy Awards RFE/RL Correspondents Order of Merit

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondents the Order of Merit Third Class.

AFGHANISTAN -- An employee of an Afghan trainline walking along a rail track in the center of the Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Dustlik (Friendship) Bridge in Hairatan in northern Balkh Province.

Central Asia in Focus: June 7, 2022

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon was in Iran at the end of May and Uzbekistan at the start of June.

RFE/RL President Jamie Fly speaks fron a podium in Central Asia

RFE/RL President Jamie Fly Visits Central Asia 

During visits to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan this week, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President & CEO Jamie Fly met with top government officials, human rights activists, and independent journalists.

Around a dozen bodies lie wrapped in bags along the ground surrounded by crowd.

Central Asia in Focus: May 31, 2022

Tajik authorities sealed off the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) and cut communications to the region when unrest broke out on May 16.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyaev.

Central Asia in Focus: May 24, 2022

The biggest crisis in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) of eastern Tajikistan since the 1992-1997 Tajik civil war erupted on May 16.

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