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RFE/RL Expands To Bulgaria, Romania
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has announced plans to launch news services in Bulgaria and Romania in a bid to strengthen the media landscape in both countries.
RFE/RL Wins Best Short Documentary At Berlin Short Film Festival
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) film Vanishing History won Best Short Documentaryat the 2018 Berlin Short Film Festival, which took place from June 28 to July 1.
Current Time Brings Lauded Putin Film To Russian Audiences
Putin’s Witnesses, a film by Russian director Vitaly Mansky and supported by Current Time, has won the Best Documentary prize in the Czech Republic’s 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
In Run-Up To Summit, Kremlin Targets RFE/RL
The U.S. Department of State has condemned “the selective targeting” of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in response to a July 5 ruling by a Moscow court finding that the media company…
Azerbaijan Court Upholds Ban On RFE/RL Website
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) deplored the June 4 decision by the Azerbaijani Supreme Court to uphold a government ban on the company’s Azerbaijani website, calling it an attack on…
RFE/RL Turkmen Contributor Released From Prison After Serving Term
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) contributor Saparmamed Nepeskuliev has been released from a Turkmen prison after serving a sentence on narcotics charges that numerous international observers have condemned as a brutal…
RFE/RL Turkmen Contributor Released From Prison After Serving Term
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) contributor Saparmamed Nepeskuliev has been released from a Turkmen prison after serving a sentence on narcotics charges that numerous international observers have condemned as a…
Attack On RFE/RL Journalist Refutes Turkmen Assurances At UN
A statement by Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry claiming there is no persecution of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists, made two days before veteran correspondent Soltan Achilova was violently assaulted in the latest…
Attack On RFE/RL Journalist Refutes Turkmen Assurances At UN
A statement by Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry claiming there is no persecution of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists, made two days before veteran correspondent Soltan Achilova was violently assaulted in…
On World Press Freedom Day, RFE/RL Says Targeting Of Journalists Must Stop
The deliberate killing of journalists in Afghanistan on April 30, including three reporters with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), “is an unfathomable crime,” RFE/RL President Thomas Kent has said. “The…