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Timothy Garton Ash, reviewing several books on 1989 for the New York Review of Books, wrote that “An erroneous report on Radio Free Europe (RFE) that a student called Martin…

This story was originally published in the August/September 1991 issue of “Shortwaves,” an RFE/RL internal publication. What follows is an eyewitness account of the failed attempt by Soviet hardliners in…

A note from RFE/RL Russian Service director Andrey Shary to audiences in Russia.

Within two months of Radio Free Europe’s (RFE) first transmission in July 1950 via the 7,500kw mobile shortwave transmitter affectionately known as “Barbara,” the executives that established RFE were already…

May 1, 2021 marked the 70th anniversary of Radio Free Europe’s (RFE) first medium wave broadcast, from Munich, Germany to Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovak citizen Miroslav Kopt was arrested in 1954 and brutally interrogated by communist authorities before being sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason.

“Listen, listen! This is Radio Azatlyk,” said Myrat Tachmyrat, announcing Radio Liberty’s first Turkmen language broadcast on March 1, 1953.

Barbara represents everything Radio Free Europe has represented for the past seventy years.

This spring, Ivan Beliaev, a 2014 Havel Fellowship alumnus, published Vaclav Havel: Life in History, a biography of the playwright, dissident, and first president of post-Communist Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel.

In an interview with RFE/RL, former RFE/RL Lithuanian Service Director Kestutis Girnius, who was director from 1989 to 2002, reflected on RFE/RL’s role in covering the dramatic changes that swept…