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Amid Belarus Internet Shutdown, RFE/RL Is Seen and Heard

As last Sunday’s presidential election in Belarus continues to fuel protests and unnerve its leadership, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists continue to defy unrelenting government pressure.

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Ahead of Presidential Poll, Belarus Targets RFE/RL and Independent Press

Ahead of the August 9 presidential election, authorities in Belarus are detaining and physically attacking hundreds of activists and journalists, including five from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).

Former political prisoner and anti-communist activist Miroslav Kopt describes the clandestine effort in the 1950s to build a radio in a Czech labor camp.

Miroslav Kopt And The Secret Radio That Political Prisoners Built

Czechoslovak citizen Miroslav Kopt was arrested in 1954 and brutally interrogated by communist authorities before being sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason.

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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…

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