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The First Broadcasts of Radio Free Europe’s Czechoslovak Service
On July 4, 1950 RFE broadcast a 30-minute message to audiences in Czechoslovakia, announcing its first-time presence — anywhere — on the air.
RFE/RL Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize in 1991
In January 1991, Former Estonian Foreign Minister Lennart Meri nominated RFE/RL for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Harassment of Ukrainian Service Journalists –– Statement by RFE/RL President Jamie Fly
Statement by RFE/RL President Jamie Fly “RFE/RL strongly condemns the recent harassment of journalists and support staff working for the Ukrainian Service’s award-winning investigative program ‘Schemes: Corruption in Details.’ It…
‘Every Story That We Covered Was A Test’: James Critchlow on the Creation of Radio Liberty
RFE/RL Pressroom spoke with James Critchlow, an American Russia specialist who helped establish RL, about those heady, early days in Munich.
How Listeners Thwarted Radio Jamming In Czechoslovakia
In Czechoslovakia, outside of the Prague Spring’s brief experiment with political liberalization, authorities invested immense financial and technical resources in jamming the signal of RFE’s Czechoslovak Service and other foreign…
Cat-And-Mouse In Baku: Authorities Try To Thwart An Azerbaijani Investigative Reporter
In her storied career as Azerbaijan’s most prominent investigative reporter, Khadija Ismayilova has been harassed, stalked, banned from traveling, and had compromising videos of her circulate on the Internet.
RFE Broadcasts From Hungarian Revolution Digitized
The RFE/RL Broadcast Collection at Stanford’s Hoover Institution contains some 80,000 studio tape reels of RFE and Radio Liberty (RL) broadcasts.
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.
Rereading Mr. Czechoslovakia
Nearly four decades after the death of Ferdinand Peroutka, the founding director of Radio Free Europe’s (later RFE/RL’s) Czechoslovak Service and one of the most highly esteemed Czech journalists of…
RFE/RL’s Balkan Service Turns 20
RFE/RL’s Balkan Service has been presented with a Certificate of Recognition by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), marking 20 years since its first broadcast to war-torn Yugoslavia in January…