Expert analysis from RFE/RL on Boston bombings and Chechnya enhanced by Radio Liberty in Exile
BBG Watch Commentary Last year, U.S. government bureaucrats in Washington wanted to eliminate Radio Free Europe / Radio…
Bureaucrats proposed cutting US broadcasts to North Caucasus, home of Boston bombing suspects
BBG Watch Commentary. U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) still broadcasts uncensored radio programs in…
Radio Liberty in Exile covers Navalny trial with videos, photos, interviews and news reports
In February 2012, the U.S. taxpayer funded Voice of America (VOA) Russian Service broadcast what turned out to…
Obama nominates Matthew C. Armstrong to serve on Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary President Obama announced his intent to nominate Matthew C. Armstrong to serve as a member…
Resignation of Dennis Mulhaupt from BBG was sudden, strange, unexplained
BBG Watch Commentary Sources tell BBG Watch that the resignation on Tuesday of Dennis Mulhaupt from the Broadcasting…
Dennis Mulhaupt leaves BBG, no quorum if Michael Lynton continues to be a no show at meetings
BBG Watch Commentary A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Dennis Mulhaupt has informed the White House that…
Liberty Media Corporation should also honor fired Radio Liberty Russian journalists
BBG Watch Commentary Liberty Media Corporation, a for-profit group of American media industry investors, is giving its $50,000…
Czech newspaper wonders if BBG Watch is right about imminent reforms at RFE/RL
BBG Watch Commentary Lidove Noviny, a daily Czech newspaper, published a commentary wondering whether the new acting Radio…
Russian media report on departures of RFE/RL managers
BBG Watch Commentary The Russian investigative journalism magazine Sovershenno Sekretno is reporting on the departure of two Radio…
Two vice presidents departed Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary Dale Cohen, Vice President of Administration at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) since…
IBB invited speaker who mocked former BBG member Hillary Clinton; some BBG governors furious with IBB's Director Lobo
BBG Watch Commentary The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) has invited and later announced it will disinvite a Roman…
BBG Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton is not confirming participation in April board meeting
BBG Watch Commentary Sources told BBG Watch that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Interim Presiding Governor Michael…
Radio Liberty in Exile offers online election coverage in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Liberty in Exile journalists — those who were fired last September by Radio Free…
U.S. reduces radio news broadcasts to Iran, Afghanistan, Belarus, China and other nations without free media
BBG Watch Exclusive News and Commentary The United States is cutting or reducing radio news broadcasts to Afghanistan,…
Kazakh political prisoner is unhappy with Radio Liberty programs
BBG Watch Commentary “By the way, it turns out that Azattyq (RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service) programs have drastically declined.…
Unilateral Disarmament: How the West Has Destroyed its Broadcasting to Russia
A significant and well-researched analysis of Western broadcasting in Russia, written by British-Russian journalist, translator, writer and former…
Under Gessen, Radio Liberty ceased to be frequently cited news source in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Warning from fired Radio Liberty journalists, media experts, sociologists opposition politicians and human rights activists…
BBG executives and lawyers refuse to settle discrimination cases they know they will lose
BBG Watch Commentary The union representing the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees, AFGE Local 1812, has been…
Former president's top deputies leaving Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary In the last six months, dozens of Radio Liberty journalists in Russia were fired without…
As Russian authorities raid human rights NGOs, RFE/RL websites were out of commission, offered minimal coverage
BBG Watch Commentary Big changes may soon be announced at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), but for now…
CUSIB Marks 6-Month Anniversary of the Unjust Firing of Radio Liberty Journalists
Lyudmila Alexeeva, Photo for Radio Liberty in Exile by Yuri Timofeev. March 21, 2013 For…
Lyudmila Alexeeva: Saving Radio Liberty in Russia Should Have Been Done The Day Before Yesterday
BBG Watch Commentary Supporters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), including a preeminent Russian human rights leader Lyudmila…
Masha Gessen gets award for journalism while dozens of fired Radio Liberty journalists are still unable to work at the station
BBG Watch Commentary Masha Gessen, the controversial director of the Russian Service at the U.S. taxpayer-funded media freedom…
Growing consensus that failed Broadcasting Board of Governors executives should leave
BBG Watch Commentary “That is why we call yet again on Congress to exercise its overview functions to…
BBG union president says Voice of America and surrogate broadcasters have different missions
In a letter to The Washington Post, Tim Shamble, president of the AFGE Local 1812 union representing the…
CUSIB looks at sequestration, Radio World reports
BBG Watch Commentary Radio World reported on the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) recommendation that instead of…
When asked what Radio Liberty means to them, most fired journalists said it is their life
BBG Watch Commentary When asked what Radio Liberty means to them, most fired journalists said it is their…
Radio Liberty faces Die Hard moment, Russia's government website reports
BBG Watch Commentary Russia Beyond the Headlines English-language news website run by a leading Russian daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta,…
Fired Radio Liberty journalist writes about his Holocaust video project
BBG Watch Commentary In September 2012, the former Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) management team fired some of…
Is unexplained absence of Broadcasting Board of Governors interim chair due to alleged conflict of interest?
BBG Watch Commentary While the remaining members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) have been working hard…
RFE/RL's interim president expected to address Czech Helsinki Committee concerns with new personnel and policy decisions
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that newly-appointed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) acting president Kevin Klose…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – IBB: The Babble-Rama
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – IBB: The Babble-Rama by The Federalist Before…
Sergei Kovalyov at Radio Liberty 60th anniversary event in Moscow
The gathering in Moscow on March 1 was organized by Radio Liberty in Exile, a group of fired…
RFE/RL Acting President Kevin Klose Marks 60 Years Of Radio Liberty
On March 1, 1953, Radio Liberty (then called Radio Liberation) began broadcasting in Russian to the Soviet Union.…
60 Years of Radio Liberty (Svoboda): Coverage as Exercise in Propaganda
Commentary by Leon 60 Years of Radio Liberty (Svoboda): Coverage as Exercise in Propaganda By Leon…
What would George Orwell say about journalism at Radio Liberty?
BBG Watch Commentary “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”…
Radio Liberty is joined by Lyudmila Alexeeva to celebrate 60 years of defending free speech
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has posted videos of the Radio Liberty 60th anniversary event…
Lev Roitman calls on Kevin Klose to act on restoring rights of RFE/RL employees
Commentary by Lev Roitman Former senior commentator at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Lev Roitman, who retired from…
Ivan Tolstoy praises solidarity of Radio Liberty journalists who resigned in protest
Ivan Tolstoy, who still works at Radio Liberty in Prague, spoke at the gathering organized on March 1…
Former Russian Service director Mario Corti calls Radio Liberty in Exile only remaining agent of station's mission in Russia
At a gathering in Moscow of Russian journalists, intellectuals, artists, human rights leaders and politicians to mark the…
Message from IBB Deputy Director Trimble to Radio Liberty in Exile read at 60th anniversary in Moscow
BBG Watch Commentary At a gathering in Moscow of Russian journalists, intellectuals, artists, human rights leaders and politicians…
"Die Hard" – Radio Liberty at 60
Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper set up by former President Mikhail Gorbachev with the money from his…
Fired Radio Liberty journalist Mikhail Sokolov has no doubts station will return to its former, now abandoned mission
BBG Watch Commentary Fired Radio Liberty political journalist Mikhail Sokolov believes that the station will return to its…
BBG Governor Ashe issues statement on 60th anniversary of Radio Liberty, apologizes to fired journalists
BBG Watch Commentary In response to an invitation sent by Radio Liberty in Exile to members of the…
Supporters of fired Radio Liberty journalists, Alexeeva and Satter, to speak at anniversary event in DC
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) new acting president Kevin Klose has invited Lyudmila Alexeeva and…
RFE/RL president invites famous supporter of fired Radio Liberty journalists to anniversary event
BBG Watch Commentary Lyudmila Alexeeva’s participation in Radio Liberty anniversary events in Washington and in Moscow may lead…
60 RL: 60 Years Ago, March 1, 1953, Radio "Liberation" began broadcasting
Richard H. Cummings, former Director of Security at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), has posted a new, updated…
Only good duplication between VOA and surrogate broadcasters, Secretary Sonenshine told
BBG Watch Commentary During the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting last Friday, February 22, 2013, Under Secretary…
Video of RFE/RL acting president Kevin Klose speaking at BBG meeting
BBG Watch Commentary Newly-appointed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty acting president Kevin Klose spoke last Friday, February 22, 2013,…
BBG's Victor Ashe Welcomes Kevin Klose, Notes 60 Years of Radio Liberty
At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting in Washington, DC on February 22, 2013, BBG Governor, Ambassador…