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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.

RFE/RL’s Persian-language Service, Radio Farda, is mourning the tragic loss of two of its finest journalists and praying for a third who is in a coma at a Prague hospital…

RFE/RL’s Afghan Service taps into a rich tradition of tolerance and pluralism.