History
RFE Contributor Released From Prison In Transdniester
Ernest Vardanean, a journalist and occasional RFE contributor who had been imprisoned for espionage last year, was released by Transdniester authorities on May 5.
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…
Detained RFE/RL Reporters Leave Egypt: ‘We Were Not Treated Well’
Two detained RFE reporters have been released from police custody and flew out of Egypt today. They “were not treated well.”
World Leaders Speak Out for Imprisoned Belarusian Protesters
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, former U.S. President George W. Bush, U.S. Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), and dozens of international leaders have taken to RFE’s airwaves in Belarus to call…
RFE President Gedmin Awarded Honorary Doctorate By Tbilisi State University
Tbilisi State University, the oldest institution of higher education in the Caucasus, awards RFE President Jeffrey Gedmin an honorary doctorate.
RFE/RL Marks 60 Years Of Fighting For Freedom
On July 4, 1950, Radio Free Europe (RFE) went on the air for the first time with a broadcast to communist Czechoslovakia from a studio in New York City’s Empire…
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…