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2011

Havel’s Last Letter To Belarusian Jailed Activists

Tags:Vaclav Havel, Radio Svaboda


25-Year Old Kyrgyz Broadcaster Wins Regional Awards

RFE/RL Kyrgyz Service broadcaster Janarbek Akaev receives an award in Bishkek for "Best TV Presenter" in Kyrgyzstan before a crowd of 3000. (Photo courtesy of "Super-Info")

Tags:Kyrgyz Service


Uzbekistan's Rights Record: 'Atrocious On Every Level'

Steve Swerdlow of Human Rights Watch discusses the findings of a new report on torture in Uzbekistan with RFE/RL journalists in Prague.

Tags:torture, human rights, Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch, Islam Karimov


A Guerrilla Newsman In Exile

Journalists from Rouzegar, a reformist Tehran daily, sat in their editorial offices in September after receiving word of a two-month ban on their reporting.

Tags:Iran, Radio Farda, Iran opposition, iran government


Partly Free Ukraine

Tags:Ukrainian Service, Radio Svoboda (Ukranian Service), Churikova


From Shoeshiner To Student: Radio Mashaal Report Paves Way For An Unlikely Education

Palwasha, who once spent her days shining shoes in the busy streets of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, now attends school thanks to the patronage of former Taliban officials.


Iran Authorities Threaten Radio Farda Listeners Via SMS

The government in Tehran is doing its best to stamp out free thinking through text messages.


In Belarus, A New Kind Of Samizdat

Tags:Lukashenka, belarus, Belarus Service, Liberty Library


RFE/RL Colleagues Celebrate 2011 Stories Of The Year

RFE/RL News Director Jay Tolson congratulates Khadija Ismayilova of RFE/RL's Azeri Service on her award for one of the five best stories of 2011. Ismayilova's story on public corruption in Azerbaijan led to changes in government policy.


RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service Enters The Record Books

It's official!


RFE/RL President Korn On Soft Power And The War Of Ideas

RFE/RL President Steven W. Korn


Kazakh Prisoner Files Reports With Smart Phone

Behind bars: RFE/RL's Kazakh Service has featured blog reports on prisoner abuse directly from a Kazakh prison inmate.


Akbar Ayazi Remembers A Different Afghanistan


RFE/RL Teams Up With Forum 2000

Gregory Feifer, a senior RFE/RL correspondent, discusses Russia's ability to adapt to the global economy at this year's Forum 2000 conference in Prague, which ran from October 9-12.


Azatutyun Succeeds As Internet Pioneer In Armenia

Tags:youtube, Armenian Service


Keeping Free Culture Alive In Belarus

Lavon Volski, a musician whose work appears weekly on RFE/RL's Radio Svaboda, plays for a crowd of devotees at a 2010 concert in Minsk.


Service Snapshot: Alisher Sidikov

RFE/RL journalist Alisher Sidikov talks with NATO officials in Strasbourg in 2009.


Persian Letters Stirs Up Blogosphere, Is Finalist For Online Journalism Awards


Satire Hit '250+' Awarded In Azerbaijan


Video RFE's Chalupa Co-Anchors Webchat On Media Freedom

RFE's Irena Chalupa (left) co-anchoring media freedom webchat with Dr. Tomicah Tillemann.

Tags:Ukraine, Balkans, media freedom, Irena Chalupa, webchat, citizen activism


RFE Social Media Analyst Shares Digital Literacy Expertise

Camilla Hawthorne at TechCamp Moldova

Tags:lithuania, moldova, rfe, social media, digital activism, TechCamp, Camilla Hawthorne


Khattak Discusses Pakistani Taliban For 'CTC Sentinel'

The Pakistani Taliban: sitting together...for now.


RFE's Teachable Moment


Radio Azatutyun Website Honored With Yerevan Press Club Award

Yerevan Press Club Annual Award winners, 18 July, 2011

Tags:Armenia, rfe, Azatutyun, yerevan press club


Paul B. Henze, An Appreciation

Paul B. Henze passed away on May 19, 2011.


RFE/RL Finds A Kindred Spirit In The Lone Star State

Student interns from Radio Free Liberty Hill. Photo Courtesy Shelly Wilkison/Radio Free Liberty Hill.


'Foreign Policy' Taps Caryl As Contributor For 'Tsunami'

The cover of FP's "Tsunami: Japan’s Post-Fukushima Future" E-book

Tags:japan, Caryl, tsunami


RFE In The Twitterverse

It's where it's at.


In Azerbaijan, BBG Governor Ashe Awards RFE Literary Prize, Discusses Local Media Environment

BBG Governor Victor Ashe (r) presenting the 2011 Oxu Zali award to Azerbaijani author Musa Efendi.

Tags:bbg, Azerbaijan, rfe, media freedom, Victor Ashe


Marking 60 Years Since The First RFE Broadcasts To Czechoslovakia

Just after the Velvet Revolution, Czechoslovaks gather in Wenceslas Square in Prague to support Vaclav Havel as president of the newly independent nation.

Tags:Czechoslovakia, rfe, 60th anniversary


'Radio Azadliq Saved My Life' Says Released Azerbaijani Journalist

Journalist Eynulla Fatullayev at home, Baku, May 26, 2011


Two Days With RFE: Charles University and Point Park University

Charles University students meet with staff at RFE headquarters

Tags:RFE/RL HQ


Radio Europa Libera: The Legacy Of RFE's Romanian Broadcasts

Moldovan Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca, 22Mar2011

Tags:history, Moldovan Service


Service Snapshot: Vusala Alibayli

Vusala Alibayli poses for a mugshot.

Tags:People Profiles, Service Sketches, Azerbaijani Service


Havel Congratulates RFE On Anniversary Of First Czechoslovak Broadcasts

Vaclav Havel Signature

Tags:history


Radio Farda Surpasses 100,000 Fans On Facebook

Radio Farda Facebook Page Screen Grab

Tags:Radio Farda


RFE Hosts UNDEF Media Training

Training the Trainers

Tags:RFE/RL HQ


Azeri Correspondent Honored In Photography Competition

Azerbaijan -- "Helplessness" by Abbas Atilay, Baku, undated

Tags:Kudos, Azerbaijani Service


'250 Seconds+': The Lighter Side Of News In Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan -- Logo, Radio Azadliq


RFE Armenian Service Reporters Receive 'Freedom Of Speech' Awards

Tags:Kudos, Armenian Service


From Our Archives: Personalities, Pundits and Politicos

U.S. -- Radio Liberty Editor Francis Ronalds interviews Martin Luther King in 1966.

Tags:history


RFE/RL's Polish Broadcast Archives Now Available To Stream

Radio Wolnosci Conference - Poland

Tags:history, Cold War Chronicles


Service Snapshot: Harry Tamrazian

RFE Armenian Service Director Harry Tamrazian

Tags:People Profiles, Service Sketches, Armenian Service


RFE Remembers Elizabeth Taylor

U.S. -- Elizabeth Taylor takes a break for an interview with Radio Free Europe in 1962 on the set of the epic film Cleopatra.

Tags:history


Banned In Iran: Radio Farda To Live Stream Nowruz Music Festival From Dubai

Germany -- Ebrahim Hamedi, well known by the name Ebi is a famous Iranian singer, undated

Tags:Radio Farda


RFE's Oana Serafim At 'One World Film Festival'

Czech Republic -- The poster for the One World 2011 (Jeden svet) film festival

Tags:events, RFE/RL Hearts The Arts, Moldovan Service


Charter 77's Unlikely Signatory

Jefim Fistein

Tags:Service Sketches, Cold War Chronicles, Russian Service


Iran's Fars News Endorses 'Liberty & Listeners'?!

Zarif Nazar, Host of "Liberty and Listeners"

Tags:OH SNAP!, Radio Azadi, Radio Farda


Service Snapshot: Farshid Manafi

Pas Farda's Farshid Manafi at the helm.

Tags:People Profiles, Service Sketches, Radio Farda


RFE Correspondent Curates Book On Occupation Of Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia -- Czech youngsters hold a Czechoslovak flag stand atop an overturned truck as other Prague residents surround Soviet tanks in Prague, 21Aug1968

Tags:Reading List


RFE Historian On The Development Of Independent Media After The Cold War

U.S. -- Cold War Broadcasting Ross Johnson book cover, undated

Tags:Reading List, Cold War Chronicles


Service Snapshot: Nabil Ahmed And Iraq's 'Economic Report'

Radio Free Iraq's Nabil Ahmed

Tags:People Profiles, Service Sketches, Radio Free Iraq


RFE Launches Caucasus Television Program

On the set of ''Free Talk''

Tags:Service Sketches, Videos!, Georgian Service, Azerbaijani Service, Russian Service, North Caucasus Service


Denial of Service Attack On Radio Farda's Answering Machines

Radio Farda logo

Tags:Radio Farda


RFE Senior Correspondent Participates in NDI Event

RFE/RL -- Golnaz Esfandiari

Tags:events, Radio Farda


Radio Azadi's SMS Service Hits 100,000 Subscribers

Radio Azadi's SMS feed in Afghanistan (09May2011)

Tags:Service Sketches, Radio Azadi


11:30am EST: Radio Farda To Stream Live Concert by Mohammad-Reza Shajarian

Lebanon -- Persian traditional singer’s Mohammadreza Shajarian concert in Lebanon in Beiteddine Palace, Chouf, 06Aug2010

Tags:events, Radio Farda


EVENT: The New Media Revolution And U.S. Global Engagement

BBG Chairman Isaacson and other BBG governors at RFE headquarters in Prague, 13Oct2010

Tags:events, Think Tank


New Book Debunks Myths About RFE/RL's Early Years

U.S.-- Johnson, Ross, a Senior Advisor to the RFE/RL President; Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, 25May2006.

Tags:history, events, Cold War Chronicles, Think Tank


Azeri Service Correspondent Wins Photography Award

Detained Baku Protester

Tags:Kudos, Azerbaijani Service


"Liberty & Listeners" Gets It Done In Afghanistan

Zarif Nazar, Host of "Liberty and Listeners"

Tags:Service Sketches, Radio Azadi


Belarusian Graffiti In The 'Age of Rage'

Belarus - political graffiti, Minsk, 27Jan2011

Tags:Dictators Will Be Dictators, Belarus Service


RFE's Siddique Talks Taliban At Atlantic Council

Afghanistan -- Taliban militants stand, after voluntarily handing over their weapons and joining the government, in Sangin district of Helmand Province, 01Jan2011

Tags:events


RFE's December Story Of The Month Winners

Belarus -- policeman Aliaxandar Klaskouski


RFE Launches "Central Asian Crossroads"

Central Asia -- map, undated

Tags:Service Sketches, Turkmen Service, Tajik Service, Kazakh Service, Uzbek Service


RFE's Lukashuk Discusses The Role Of Social Media In Belarus

RFE Belarus Service Director Alexander Lukashuk

Tags:belarus, Belarus Service, Alexander Lukashuk


"Long Live Radio Mashaal!"

Pakistan -- Mashaal Logo, 29Nov2010

Tags:Service Sketches, Radio Mashaal


A Day At RFE: One Happy Visitor

Students from University of New York in Prague during a trainig session in RFE's computer laboratory

Tags:visits, Day With RFE


RFE's Radio Azadi Honored By Afghan Senate

The Afghan Senate presents Radio Azadi with an award for journalistic excellence.

Tags:Kudos, Radio Azadi


Service Snapshots: Maliha Amirzada

Maliha Amirzada - Radio Mashaal

Tags:People Profiles, Service Sketches, Radio Mashaal

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