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Havel Congratulates RFE On Anniversary Of First Czechoslovak Broadcasts
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC — Thanks to President Vaclav Havel, who took the time to draft a statement congratulating RFE/RL on the 60th anniversary of its first Czechoslovak broadcasts. English translation…
RFE/RL’s Polish Broadcast Archives Now Available To Stream
WARSAW, POLAND — All the preserved RFE Polish Service broadcasts are now available for on-demand streaming at a new Polish Radio website, ‘Radios of Freedom.’ These broadcasts are a unique…
RFE Historian On The Development Of Independent Media After The Cold War
RFE’s resident historian, A. Ross Johnson, on RFE/RL’s role in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union after the Cold War.
New Book Debunks Myths About RFE/RL’s Early Years
“Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond,” the new book by RFE/RL historian A. Ross Johnson, was unveiled on January 20 at the Woodrow Wilson Center…
RFE/RL At 60: From Balloon Drops To Web Proxies
Sixty years ago, Radio Free Europe (RFE) took to dropping balloons into Communist-occupied Eastern Europe as one of its many creative ways of dodging the censors. These days, RFE/RL’s methods of penetrating…
To Russia With Love
The “umbrella murder” was Cold War intrigue at its most dramatic. In 1978, RFE/RL and BBC Bulgarian broadcaster Georgi Markov was surreptitiously stabbed in the leg by an umbrella’s poison pellet, courtesy…