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RFE/RL broadcasts news programs in 28 languages to 20 countries that are struggling for a free press. Wonder what all these languages sound like? Here's your chance to find out: We asked our colleagues ...
Clinton Says Karzai's Inauguration Speech Demonstrated 'Good Faith' - Radio Free Europe / Radio Libe
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visiting Afghanistan for President Hamid Karzai's inauguration ceremony, discussed the numerous obstacles the Afghan leader faces in his second term. In a...
How We Used Facebook To Try To Free Azerbaijan's 'Donkey Bloggers' - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liber
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The following is a guest post from Ali S. Novruzov, an Azerbaijani who blogs over at "In Mutatione Fortitudo. He describes how the arrest and conviction of the "donkey bloggers" have pushed th...
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Pavel Pechacek was the director of RFE/RL’s Munich-based Czechoslovak service at the time of the Velvet Revolution. In November 1989 he was unexpectedly granted a visa for Czechoslovakia...
Iraqi Vice President Vetoes Election Law Over Expatriate Seats - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty ©
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There are new fears that Iraq may not be able to hold its January parliamentary elections on schedule after the Sunni Arab vice president vetoed part of the election law, saying he wants more seats i...
RFE/RL CNN International will air a report about RFE/RL tonight in their program running from 9:30pm CET. The report is part of a series about the Czech Republic and Slovakia 20 years after the Velvet Revolution.
Revolutions Of '89: Vaclav Havel -- Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolutionary - Radio Free Europe / Radi
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1989 was the year in which Vaclav Havel went from jailed dissident to revolutionary leader to president. Twenty years on, we profile the leading figure of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution.
RFE/RL How did the false report get out that student Martin Šmid was killed by Czechoslovak riot police during demonstrations on November 17, 1989? Ross Johnson, Director of RFE at the time, looks back.
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Timothy Garton Ash, reviewing several books on 1989 for the New York Review of Books, wrote that "An erroneous report on Radio Free Europe (RFE) that a student called Martin Šmid had bee...
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Blogger 35 degrees writes about changing social norms in Iranian society, where sexual matters are generally taboo.
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Before the autumn revolutions in Eastern Europe, there was the Moscow Spring in the Soviet Union. In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev's reform policies hit their high-water mark, as the USSR held its firs...
Swine Flu Follies: A Regional Roundup Of Reactions (And Overreactions) To Virus's Spread - Radio Fre
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As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through the Balkans and the former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to possibly political.
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Bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada have been sentenced by an Azerbaijani court to at least two years in prison on hooliganism charges that the defendants and rights groups have dismissed a...
Officer Takes On Russian Police Via YouTube, Costing Him His Job - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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With two remarkable YouTube videos that have drawn hundreds of thousands of viewers, Aleksei Dymovsky, a police major in Novorossiisk, has accused local law enforcement officials of widesprea...
Revolutions Of '89: 'At The Moment Of Crisis, Nobody Was At Home' - Radio Free Europe / Radio Libert
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As "Newsweek’s" bureau chief for Germany, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, American journalist Michael Meyer was a professional observer of the revolutionary wave that swept across Central and Easter...
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Some were peaceful and some were violent. Some were popular revolts and some were orchestrated within the Communist Party leadership. The revolutions of 1989 cast aside Europe's Cold War dictators...
