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RFE/RL Contributor Prokopyeva Found Guilty In Russian ‘Show Trial’

In a closely watched case, a Russian court today found Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Russian Service contributor Svetlana Prokopyeva guilty of “justifying terrorism,” marking a frightening escalation in the state’s attack…

‘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.

RFE/RL’s President Jamie Fly at All-staff Meeting at Prague RFE/RL headquarters.

New USAGM Chief Dismisses RFE/RL President Jamie Fly

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President and CEO Jamie Fly was relieved of his duties on June 17 by the new chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Michael…

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Barbara: The Original Voice Of RFE

Barbara represents everything Radio Free Europe has represented for the past seventy years.

2013-2014 Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellow Ivan Beliaev.

Havel Fellow Brings Havel Legacy To Russian Audiences

This spring, Ivan Beliaev, a 2014 Havel Fellowship alumnus, published Vaclav Havel: Life in History, a biography of the playwright, dissident, and first president of post-Communist Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel.

Czech Republic/U.S. -- (l-r) David Jackson, VOA Director; Kestutis Girnius, RFE/RL Lithuanian Service Director (June 2005).

Former RFE/RL Lithuanian Service Director Kestutis Girnius Reflects on RFE/RL Reporting in 1989

In an interview with RFE/RL, former RFE/RL Lithuanian Service Director Kestutis Girnius, who was director from 1989 to 2002, reflected on RFE/RL’s role in covering the dramatic changes that swept…

Ferdinand Peroutka: Mr. Czechoslovakia

Ferdinand Peroutka: Mr. Czechoslovakia

On May 1, 1951, respected Czech journalist and first RFE Czechoslovak Service Director Ferdinand Peroutka began the first official transmission from Radio Free Europe (RFE) headquarters in Munich, saying, “This…

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…

North Caucasus Service’s Online Library Preserves Chechnya’s Literary Heritage

In early 2015, as a step toward preserving Chechnya’s literary heritage, the North Caucasus service launched an online library available for free to users with both text and audio versions of classics…

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