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RFE’s Pakistan Broadcasts Boosted To Nine Hours A Day

RFE’s programs in the Pashtun regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan are expanding from six to nine hours a day, starting today.

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RFE President Gedmin Meets Kyrgyz Leader, Visits Area Of Recent Ethnic Violence

During a three-day trip to Kyrgyzstan, RFE President Jeffrey Gedmin met President Roza Otunbaeva, parliamentary candidates, journalists, and students to discuss media freedom and the recent ethnic violence in the…

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Record Number Of Iranians Visit Radio Farda Website

More than a million people inside Iran circumvented aggressive censorship and logged on to RFE/RL’s Persian-language website in July through a proxy server.

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Outspoken Serbian Journalist Beaten, Hospitalized

A Serbian journalist and RFE/RL contributor known for his strong stance against nationalism and sports hooliganism was attacked in Belgrade.

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RFE/RL Marks 60 Years Of Fighting For Freedom

On July 4, 1950, Radio Free Europe (RFE) went on the air for the first time with a broadcast to communist Czechoslovakia from a studio in New York City’s Empire…

Last summer, RFE/RL's client software was critical in enabling Iranians to access Twitter and other sites.

RFE/RL At 60: From Balloon Drops To Web Proxies

Sixty years ago, Radio Free Europe (RFE) took to dropping balloons into Communist-occupied Eastern Europe as one of its many creative ways of dodging the censors. These days, RFE/RL’s methods of penetrating…

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Erosion of Independent Media a Key Feature of Russia’s Democratic Decline

According to a new Freedom House report unveiled at RFE/RL’s Washington, D.C. office today, independent media have declined significantly across the former Soviet Union during the past decade.

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Jeffrey Gedmin Discusses Afghanistan & Pakistan At The New America Foundation

RFE/RL President Jeffrey Gedmin discussed his recent trips to Pakistan and Afghanistan in an event titled, “Af-Pak Diary: Notes from Islamabad and Kabul.”

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To Russia With Love

The “umbrella murder” was Cold War intrigue at its most dramatic. In 1978, RFE/RL and BBC Bulgarian broadcaster Georgi Markov was surreptitiously stabbed in the leg by an umbrella’s poison pellet, courtesy…

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