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On International Human Rights Day, Aleh Hruzdzilovich, a correspondent for RFE/RL’s Belarusian Service (Radio Svaboda), has received the award for “Best Journalist” from a Belarusian civic organization.

In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed guarded optimism about Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s promises to take steps to eradicate corruption.

RFE/RL Radio Farda web editor Fred Petrossians won a prestigious new media award today from ThinkSocial for an internet-based project he co-founded that seeks to spread awareness of bloggers’ rights…

In 1989, Czech playwright Vaclav Havel went from jailed dissident to president of a free and independent nation.

In the face of ongoing pressure and harassment from authorities, RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service (Radio Azadliq) has won one of journalism’s most prestigious awards for its coverage of Azerbaijan’s controversial March…

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told RFE/RL’s audience around the world today that “America wants to hit the reset button with Russia, not the memory erase button.”

RFE/RL President Jeffrey Gedmin, Executive Editor John O’Sullivan, and Afghan Service journalist Freshta Jalalzai all took part in this year’s Forum 2000 conference in Prague.

Next month, RFE/RL will launch a news program in Russian to the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The new 60-minute daily radio broadcast, called Ekho Kavkaza (Echo of…

RFE/RL’s Kazakh website has won a prestigious award for excellence in online journalism.