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(l-r) Current Time sound engineer Maksim Gavrilenko, director Vladimir Mikhailovski, and documentary filmmaker Lyubov Zemtsova.

RFE/RL Devastated By Tragedy Involving Film Crew In Belarus

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is devastated by the loss of two colleagues who died last night in a car crash in Belarus.

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How Liberty Came To Russia

On August 19, 1991, a military coup was attempted in Moscow. Instead of reporting on the event, Soviet television broadcast the ballet, Swan Lake.

A group of young people participate in a sporting event or summer activity. To the right of the photo, Freddy Hirsch stands and watches two men preparing for a competition.

A Place of Heroes and Hope, RFE/RL’s Headquarters at Prague-Hagibor

RFE/RL broadcasts daily from Prague-Hagibor, a site connected for more than a century with offering help and hope to people in need.

Chernobyl: ‘A Radioactive Emergency Alarm Has Come From Denmark’

“American journalists are reporting from Moscow that a catastrophe has taken place at the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant not far from Kyiv” – these were the words with which RFE/RL’s…

A graphic displaying RFE/RL's viewership behind the Iron Curtain.

Radio Free Europe’s Audience Reach Behind the Iron Curtain

The data graphics below demonstrate Radio Free Europe’s weekly audience reach from 1963 to 1989 in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Audience reach for other foreign broadcasters is shown.

Remembering RFE/RL’s Fallen Journalists

RFE/RL journalists, often at great personal risk, work to spread knowledge and combat lies to ensure that people even in the world’s most oppressed nations have access to the truth. 

Briefly… Radio Farda’s Hannah Kaviani on Reporting on the COVID-19 Crisis in Iran

RFE/RL Radio Farda journalist Hannah Kaviani explains how reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in Iran is part of a larger challenge of countering censorship and debunking lies.

Clockwise from top left: RFE/RL contributors and journalists Stanislav Aseyev, Svetlana Prokopyeva, Mykola Semena, Hannah Kaviani, Alexandra Dynko, and Sirojiddin Tolibov.

On World Press Freedom Day, Coronavirus Multiplies Challenges Facing Independent Media

“Today the state has a new ‘stick’ – ‘fake news’ about the coronavirus,” says journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, a contributor to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Russian Service.

Briefly… Ukraine’s Mykola Semena on Media Freedom

Mykola Semena, a contributor to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, speaks about his arrest in Russian-occupied Crimea.

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