History
‘RFE/RL Will Continue To Be Heard’: Carlos the Jackal and The Bombing of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, February 21, 1981
‘Four of our employees are injured, our building is damaged, but RFE/RL will continue to be heard.’
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.
RFE/RL’s Balkan Service Marks 25 Years Of Speaking With One Voice
RFE/RL’s Balkan Service this week is marking 25 years of reporting in one of the world’s most contested regions.
‘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…
RFE/RL Fears Retaliation Against Journalists In Pakistan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) expressed concern on Friday that members of Radio Mashaal are facing pressure by authorities following the closure of the Pashto-language service’s Islamabad office on ISI…
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.
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 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.