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  Dr. Paul Goble, Member of FreeMediaOnline.org Advisory Board, Speaks of the Destruction of U.S. International Broadcasting and Criticizes the Broadcasting Board of Governors at a Congressional Hearing hear Dr. Goble's Statement
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Moscow rights group protests Radio Liberty's giving airtime to extremists more in Paul Goble's Window on Eurasia
The World Still Neeeds the Voice of America by
Helle Dale, The Heritage Foundation more
Voice of America employees call for dissolving the Broadcasting Board of Governors over "blunders" in Russia and Georgia more
IFJ Demands Independent Inquiry Over Russian Web Site Owner Shot Dead by Police more
OSCE media freedom representative protests against killing during police custody of web publisher in Russia's Ingushetia region more
Senate panel seeks to reinstate Voice of America cuts more from ProPublica.org
Kremlin's 'Agents of Influence' Said Tilting Internet Forums against the West more in Paul Goble's Window on Eurasia
China cyber-cops are watching more from AFP...FREE video
Politkovskaya's birthday marked in Russia more from Russia Today...
 Poland's continuing prosecution of journalists violates international standards, says OSCE media freedom watchdog more from OSCE...
Black Muslim bakery in Oakland, California raided in connection with murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey 7 arrested in connection with slaying of Oakland Post editor more from San Francisco Chronicle... | Reporters Without Borders press release...
The Committee to Protect Journalists voiced concern at the grim record of impunity in journalist murders and violent attacks against reporters—the main threat to press freedom in Russia and other former Soviet states such as Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Turkmenistan more from CPJ...
 OSCE media freedom representative asks Russian authorities to review extremism laws restricting free reporting more from OSCE...
 Putin signs restrictive amendments on ‘extremism’ CPJ press release... Russia No. 3 on the Committee to Protect Journalists' Top 10 Backsliders on Press Freedom read more...
  Gorbachev says Russia reversing democratic freedoms, US acting unilaterally more from VOA..
 Foreign Affairs disputes Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's reasons for withdrawing article Foreign Affairs statement...
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 Polish priest rejects criticism after alleged anti-Semitic comments to students of journalism more story from IHT Europe... | ADL calls on Polish leader to directly condemn priest's anti-Semitic remarks ADL press release...
In Russia, legislation on ‘extremism’ poses new press freedom threat more from the Committee to Protect Journalists...
 IPI concerned about Russian authorities' behaviour in EMF Manana Aslamazyan case more from IPI... | more from Internews...
 FY 2008 International broadcast funding at a critical crossroads more from the Public Diplomacy Council...
 President Bush attends dedication of victims of communism memorial more from the White House press office... | VOA story... | White House photos...
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 Dr. Paul Goble, member of FreeMediaOnline.org International Advisory Board, to moderate a panel on the victims and crimes of communism from 1917 to the present more from the Heritage Foundation...
Mrs. Bush Condemns the assassination of woman-journalist Zakia Zaki, Director of Peace Radio in Afghanistan more from the White House press office...
 President Bush says that reforms in Russia have been derailed, with troubling implications for democratic development, but promises to continue building a relationship with Moscow. text of President Bush's speech at Conference on Democracy and Security...
 Open Letter by 25 Russian human rights advocates asking G7 leaders not to repeat mistakes from the past in dealing with anti-democratic developments in the Russian Federation more from IHF...
Soft power unplugged Frank Gaffney writes about the Bush Administration/BBG proposal: "Reduce by a third RFE/RL's Russian-language broadcasts to Russia from 24- to 18- hours a day, and take VOA's Russian-language radio off the air altogether. This would come at a time when the authoritarian Vladimir Putin is making a comprehensive effort to deny his people access to truthful information about their country and the world." more of Frank Gaffney's column in RenewAmerica.us...
World journalists condemn ‘intolerable impunity’ and vow to show global solidarity in fight to defend Russian journalists more story from IFJ...
New Database on Deaths and Disappearances of Journalists in Russia, 1993 to Present link...
 Call for international support for journalists and human rights activists in Russia
The Russian authorities continue to violate free speech even as US secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins a three-day visit to Moscow and European Union representatives prepare to attend a summit in the Russian city of Samara on 17-18 May, Reporters Without Borders said today. more story...
U.S. lawmakers urge Bush to reconsider Voice of America broadcasting cuts VOA report by Dan Robinson...
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Russian President Putin to investigate journalist Ivan Safronov’s death as murder CPJ protest letter...
 Secretary Rice cites importance of free press to democracy Rice discusses world events at Edward R. Murrow journalism forum. U.S. State Dept. Wash. File story...
(Госдепартамент USA) Госсекретарь Райс отметила важность свободной прессы для демократии
Комментарии о событиях в мире на журналистском форуме памяти Эдварда Марроу more story... | 
Center for Strategic and International Studies: Andrew Kuchins, Dead Journalists in Putin’s Russia: La Plus C’est Change, La Plus C’est la Meme Chose? read the commentary...
 U.S. Helsinki Commission Chairman Rep. Hastings decries rise of authoritarianism in Russia under Putin, criticizes Bush Administration's decision to stop VOA Russian radio broadcasts Rep. Alcee L. Hastings' remarks...
 "Women's voices must be heard", concludes ARTICLE 19 in publication celebrating women's journalism more story...
 Secretary Rice inaugurates International Women of Courage Award State Department ceremony honors 10 courageous women from eight countries. U.S. State Dept. Wash. File story...
 Former Voice of America directors protest program cuts Eleven former directors of the Voice of America have issued a joint statement calling on Congress to reverse a Bush administration plan to substantially reduce VOA’s English broadcasts and those in 15 other languages. VOA directors' statement...
 Hasta La Vista, Free Speech Hugo Chávez consolidates his hold on Venezuela's media Blanquita Cullum's article in The Weekly Standard...
 EURASIANET.ORG article lists arguments against proposed U.S. broadcasting cuts to media-at-risk countries, includes comments by FreeMediaOnline.org founder Ted Lipien more story...
 VIEW COMMENTS AND SIGNATURES ON PETITION TO SAVE VOA UZBEK BROADCASTS "Appeasement is always very costly..." LINK...
 Human rights NGOs support petition drive to save Voice of America broadcasts to Uzbekistan link... | read FreeMediaOnline.org article...
Uzbekistan ranks worst in region's generally disturbing free expression environment, says Adil Soz more from IFEX... | link to Adil Soz...
Заявление Международного Фонда защиты свободы слова «Адил соз» и Центра экстремальной журналистики Союза журналистов России об уголовном преследовании журналистов в Республике Узбекистан more...
 Threat to VOA Uzbek Service Institute for War and Peace Reporting...
Silence of America Cutting the VOA's presence in Mr. Putin's neighborhood The Washington Post editorial...
 Council of Europe to set up watchdog on free expression, demands action on murders of journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Hrant Dink Council of Europe resolution... | Council of Europe report...
U.S., world community focus on strengthening Internet freedom State Department event, press freedom report cite online restriction. U.S. State Dept. Wash. File story...
 Independent media portal in Uzbekistan posts comments critical of BBG decision to shut down Voice of America Uzbek radio programs link to ARBUZ...
Independent portal in Kazakhstan posts comments critical of U.S. broadcasting cuts to media-at-risk countries; RFE/RL management reluctantly accepts BBG decisions on program cuts KUB Kazakhstan story... | RFE/RL press release...
US budget plan would cut most VOA English radio programs VOA report..
 U.S. plans to reduce its overseas broadcasts in English and 18 other languages more story...
 From violence in Iraq to impunity in Russia, the Committee to Protect Journalists recounts a dangerous year in Attacks on the Press link to CPJ report...
 President Putin pledges to protect journalists in wake of outcry over journalist Politkovskaya's murder The Committee to Protect Journalists press release...
 Content of U.S. radio programs to Iran called a "losing strategy" by former international broadcasting official testimony of S. Enders Wimbush before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Jan. 31, 2007 Word file... | PDF...
Radio Farda doubles main evening newscast to Iran RFE/RL press release...
 Jeffrey Gedmin named president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty RFE/RL press release...
 Reporters Without Borders issues its 2007 annual press freedom survey “The report lists the worst violations in repressive countries, including major culprits North Korea, Eritrea, Cuba and Turkmenistan, but also looks at democracies, where progress needs to be made too,” the organisation says. RSF press release... | link to full report...
Military intelligence in Poland accused of recruting more than a hundred journalists as agents in the early 1990s Polish Radio report...
Turkey: Kurdish broadcast rights slow to be implemented VOA report by Amberin Zaman...
U.N. adopts resolution condemning Holocaust denial VOA report...
Killing of Turkish editor termed assault on free expression United States, world community condemn murder of journalist Hrant Dink U.S. State Dept. Wash. File story...
 Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, chronicler of the developing world and the Soviet Union, dead at 74 Polish Radio story... | link to NPR's Fresh Air 1988 interview with Kapuscinski...
 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) calls for investigations into the unresolved murders of journalists; Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ukraine and other countries cited for insufficient protection of freedom of expression PACE press release... | Recommendation 1783... | Resolution 1535... | Russia Today story...
 Freedom House releases Freedom in the World 2007 report: Year marked by global "freedom stagnation," setbacks for democracy in Asia, continued assaults on freedom of expression and murders of journalists Freedom House press release... | Freedom House report...
Worst of the Worst: Cuba, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Libya, Sudan, Tibet (under Chinese jurisdiction), Chechnya | charts and graphs...
U.S. State Department expects overwhelming support for U.N. resolution condemning Holocaust denial U.S. State Dept. Wash. File story...
 The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that Chechnya police may be behind Politkovskaya murder citing Russian officials; the Russian Foreign Ministry disputed CPJ report CPJ press release... | Russian Foreign Ministry statement...
 Amnesty International condemns rising tide of persecution against independent journalism Amnesty International press release... | Azerbaijan:
the contracting space for freedom of expression | AZERBAIJAN: APPEAL CASES Climate of impunity fosters new assaults on opposition journalists in Azerbaijan
Police urged to probe deeper after 17-year-old arrested for editor’s murder Reporters Without Borders press release...
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Reporters Without Borders voices concern about Russian prosecutor's comments as he annouces 10 arrests in Politkovskaya's murder 
Amnesty International adding its voice to two global trade union federations in support of the International Day of Action for Mansour Osanlu and Mahmoud Salehi on 9 August 2007
Hard-Pressed Moscow Opposition Leaders Ask U.S. Not to Cut Russian-Language Broadcasts 
Senator Brownback Introduced Legislation That Would Abolish the Broadcasting Board of Governors 
Voice of America Director's Position Seen As Too Weak to Defend VOA Russian Radio more in 
Wrong Time to Give Up Voice of America Broadcasts to India 
It's Politics As Usual in Dealing with Mr. Putin for Senator Biden and His Top Aide 
Model Interactive Website Touted As Replacement for Voice of America Radio to Russia Attracts No Comments from Users 
Henry Loomis, Voice of America Director Who Resisted White House Censorship at VOA, Dies at 89 
Holocaust conference in Iran: Aljazeera offers more balance than National Public Radio (NPR) reporter, objective coverage from most other international media 
Russia threatens international journalists with libel suits over Litvinenko's case 
International and U.S. media gloss over Iranian President's anti-Israeli comments 
Russia Today is on air on SKY and in North America, U.S. broadcasters in Russia face growing government restrictions 
Iranian radio revives Papal-Jewish conspiracy theories 
North Korea and Cuba use similar propaganda language against the U.S. 
Radio Liberty Russian managers put a positive spin on Putin's comments about the murder of a pro-democracy journalist 
