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RFE/RL President Jeffrey Gedmin told Congress today that RFE/RL “remains on the cutting edge of the struggle for human rights, democracy, and media freedom.”

During a visit to RFE/RL’s Prague headquarters today, Romanian President Traian Basescu compared neighboring Moldova’s recent post-election protests to Romania’s 1989 anti-communist revolt.

RFE/RL’s Belarus Service, Radio Svaboda, is devoting all of today’s broadcasts and online stories to the plight of Belarusian political prisoners.

Shortly after meeting with President Obama in Moscow, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov told RFE/RL that “Russian democracy is our problem, not America’s.”

Following two weeks of large-scale protests and violent government crackdowns, Iranian authorities are trying to severely restrict the broadcasts of RFE/RL’s Persian Service.

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel tells RFE/RL that Western countries should “express solidarity for those [Iranians] who are defending human rights.”

On a day when millions of Iranians went to the polls to vote for president, cell phone users found themselves without the ability to send and receive SMS text messages.

A new report finds that five influential authoritarian states – China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and Pakistan – are actively undermining democracy within their borders and abroad.

On the 20th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown and on a day when President Obama told a crowd in Egypt that he “is seeking a new beginning between the…