History
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…
Reporting from the Front Lines of Freedom
On World Press Freedom Day, a new report finds that the vast majority of RFE/RL’s 18 million weekly listeners live in countries where freedom of the press is under serious…
IG: RFE/RL Relocation “Exceptionally Smooth, Efficient, and Cost Effective”
Despite the challenges of relocating a news organization that broadcasts around-the-clock to 20 countries in 28 languages, a new report says RFE/RL’s move into its new Prague headquarters last year…
Vaclav Havel Remembers the Velvet Revolution 20 Years Later
In 1989, Czech playwright Vaclav Havel went from jailed dissident to president of a free and independent nation.
STATEMENT: Two Radio Farda Journalists Killed in Car Accident, Third in a Coma
RFE/RL’s Persian-language Service, Radio Farda, is mourning the tragic loss of two of its finest journalists and praying for a third who is in a coma at a Prague hospital…
RFE/RL to Host Historic Afghan Presidential Debate
On Sunday, August 16, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan, known locally as Radio Azadi, is hosting the first and only debate featuring President Hamid Karzai and his two main challengers in…
‘Day of the Political Prisoner’ in Belarus
RFE/RL’s Belarus Service, Radio Svaboda, is devoting all of today’s broadcasts and online stories to the plight of Belarusian political prisoners.
New RFE/RL Report: “Undermining Democracy-21st Century Authoritarians”
A new report finds that five influential authoritarian states – China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and Pakistan – are actively undermining democracy within their borders and abroad.
Experts Debate Modern Authoritarians
On the 20th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown and on a day when President Obama told a crowd in Egypt that he “is seeking a new beginning between the…
RFE/RL Celebrates New Headquarters
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) formally opened its new headquarters in the Czech capital today with a ceremony that included the President of Estonia, the Mayor of Prague, and distinguished…