Radio Liberty firings gut Moscow office

By Kirill Filimonov

U.S.-taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE-RL) in Moscow have provided a voice of freedom to Russian listeners for years. When the station first opened its mics to Russian opposition leaders, many supposed they would be silenced sooner or later by a government not usually tolerant of independent media.
Instead, trouble came from a surprising quarter: Washington, or the RFE-RL headquarters in Prague, where American officials decided to fire practically all the journalists of Radio Liberty’s (Radio Svoboda) Moscow bureau and cancel their human rights programs.

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