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The Murder of Georgi Markov: The Mystery Remains – Are Radio Liberty Journalists Now Safe?

Thirty-one years ago this week, on 7 September 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian émigré journalist who wrote for Radio Free Europe, BBC and Deutsche Welle, was assaulted in broad daylight on London’s Waterloo Bridge. Markov’s murder happened during the Cold …

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Independent US Bloggers Beat Voice of America and Radio Liberty in Delivering Uncensored News to Russia

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Self-Censorship About Putin at Condé Nast GQ Magazine, Limited Coverage by U.S.-Taxpayer Funded Broadcasters


The popular New York blog site Gawker is reporting that "in an act of publishing cowardice, Condé Nast has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent

Remembering Senator Edward M. Kennedy – White House Photos

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President Barack Obama meets with former President Bill Clinton, Sen. Ted Kennedy and Vice President Joe

Journalist faces jail for blogging on Russian explosion – Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, August 21, 2009--Prosecutors in Abakan, the capital of the Republic of Khakassia in southern Siberia, should drop their defamation charges against online editor Mikhail Afanasyev, the

Secretary Clinton Silent on Russia’s Campaign to Defend The Hitler-Stalin Pact

 

When Secretary Clinton issued a statement on the 20th anniversary of the protests that led to freeing the Baltic states from Soviet domination, she failed to

The Kremlin’s Efforts to Rewrite Soviet History Work in Subtle Ways

The map from the secret appendix to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact showing the new German-Soviet border. The map is signed by Joseph Stalin and German Foreign Minister Joachim von

US Public Diplomacy Failure to Reach Out to the Russians After Terrorist Attack in Ingushetia

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More Trouble at Radio Liberty

The latest news about continuing turmoil at the US taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is managed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) -- an independent

Voice of America Report Shows Confusion and Divisions Over Obama’s Policy Toward Russia

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Latest murder of journalist in Russia underlines need for government action, says OSCE media freedom representative

VIENNA, 13 August 2009 - The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, condemned today the murder of newspaper editor Abdulmalik Akhmedilov in Makhachkala, Dagestan on

Cyber attack makes anti-Russia blogger a star – The Los Angeles Times reports

'I am not happy . . . but it is good that I get famous,' Georgian Cyxymu says of the onslaught that brought down Twitter and crippled Facebook

VOA Director Testifies Before Congress About Strategy in Russia and Cyber Attack on VOA Website But Serious Mistakes Go Unreported


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An Open Letter to the Obama Administration from Central and Eastern Europe Calls For Resisting Russia’s Threatening Power

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With VOA Left Voiceless, Obama Fails to Reach Russian Public – Jonathan Liedl, The Heritage Foundation

This post by Jonathan Liedl of the Heritage Foundation on the SZONE.US Forum includes several links to FreeMediaOnline.org reports.

With VOA Left Voiceless, Obama Fails to Reach Russian

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