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Current Time Network Launches Real News, For Real People, In Real Time

Current Time, an up-and-coming player in the Russian media market, will mark on Tuesday, Feb. 7 the formal launch of its 24/7 digital and TV stream.

RFE/RL contributor Kudayberdy Allashov plays guitar and smiles.

Turkmenistan Escalates Attacks Against RFE/RL Journalists

WASHINGTON — Turkmen authorities have arrested contributor Khudayberdy Allashov on charges of possessing chewing tobacco only days after one RFE/RL correspondent was threatened with arrest and another was physically injured in a series of…

RFE/RL Turkmen Service correspondent Soltan Achilova, showing bruises suffered during a late-October attack in Ashgabat. (RFE/RL).

Journalist Suffers Repeat Attack In Turkmenistan

WASHINGTON — RFE/RL Turkmen correspondent Soltan Achilova has been assaulted a second time, following an attack last month that rights advocates said was an attempt to silence her reporting. Achilova, 67, was in a…

RFE And The Hungarian Revolution — Original Broadcasts, Reporter’s Diary Now Online

RFE’s role during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution has been the subject of debate by researchers and Hungarian exiles.

A still from an RFE/RL video report on the death of Karimov, in which an RFE/RL journalist asks a pedestrian, "Have you heard that Karimov is hospitalized?"

Innovation Is Game Changer For RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service

The internet was teeming with reporting and speculation earlier this month over the death of Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov and the ensuing political succession. Much of that managed to reach…

Nurgazy Dreams Big… And Wins (A Webby Award)

Thanks to all your votes, our video about Nurgazy — and his arduous journey to school — won a Webby award.

Roman Kupka (l) and Ray Furlong (r) at the 2016 New York TV & Film Festival awards gala in Las Vegas, April 19, 2016.

RFE/RL’s “Desperate Honeymoon” Documentary Wins New York Festivals Awards

RFE/RL’s video documentary “Desperate Honeymoon” won Silver and Bronze medals at the New York Festivals International Television and Film Awards ceremony in Las Vegas on Tuesday, April 19.

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RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service Baku Staff Win 2015 Burke Award

The staff of the Baku bureau of RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service, known locally as Radio Azadliq, have been honored with the 2015 David Burke Distinguished Journalism Award for exceptional integrity and…

Radio Free Iraq Signs Off After 17 Years Of Service

RFE/RL’s Arabic Service to Iraq, Radio Free Iraq (RFI) will air its final broadcast on July 31.

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