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Reaching New Audiences
At the same time, RFE/RL launched several new broadcast services in the past quarter century. Responding to the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, RFE/RL began broadcasting in Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian to the Yugoslav successor states in early 1994, in Albanian to Kosovo in 1999 and in Macedonian and Albanian to Macedonia in 2001.
Reflecting American attention to the greater Middle East, RFE/RL began broadcasting in Arabic to Iraq and in Persian to Iran in 1998; after 2002 the broadcasts to Iran continued as Radio Farda. [In 2015, RFE/RL’s Iraq broadcasts were merged with MBN’s Radio Sawa.]
In 2002, RFE/RL resumed broadcasts in Dari and Pashto to Afghanistan that had begun in the 1980s during the Soviet occupation. Also in 2002, Radio Liberty reinstated broadcasts in Avar, Chechen and Circassian to the North Caucasus (three of the North Caucasus broadcast languages during the 1950s and 1960s); while Avar and Circassian broadcasts were discontinued in 2016, programs continue to be produced in Chechen.
In January 2010, RFE/RL began broadcasting in the local Pashto dialects to northwestern Pakistan and the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in an effort to provide an alternative to Islamic extremist radio stations. Radio Mashaal covers local and international news with in-depth reports on terrorism, politics, women's issues, and health care, and gives listeners a chance to be heard through roundtable discussions tribal leaders and local policymakers in addition to regular call-in programs.
Following Russia's unrecognized annexation of Crimea in 2014, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reached out to audiences on the occupied peninsula with special programming in Crimean Tatar, Russian, and Ukrainian, and created targeted content for the war-torn Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. RFE/RL further expanded on these local news efforts between 2016 and 2019 by creating websites serving the needs of audiences in the North Caucasus, Middle Volga, Siberian, and Northwestern regions of Russia.
In October 2014, RFE/RL also launched, in cooperation with Voice of America, a Russian-language digital news network for the global Russian audience under the "Current Time" brand -- which has expanded from its debut as a 30-minute daily news show into a 24/7 satellite and online television channel with distribution in 26 countries, including 12 beyond the RFE/RL region. In all cases, RFE/RL is using the latest digital and social media content distribution strategies to meet and engage with our audiences at times, and on platforms, of their choice.
In January 2019, RFE/RL returned to Romania and Bulgaria, amid growing concern about a reversal in democratic gains and attacks on the rule of law and the judiciary in the two countries. For similar reasons, RFE/RL resumed content production in Hungary in September 2020.
Governments throughout RFE/RL's coverage area regularly demonstrate their concern about the credibility, reach, and impact of RFE/RL's professional journalism. RFE/RL is not allowed to operate a local bureau in Azerbaijan, Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. RFE/RL journalists are regularly harassed and detained while doing their jobs, and experience accreditation denials and other forms of official sanctions throughout the region. The Iranian government has sent SMS messages to citizens accessing Radio Farda online content, informing them that it is illegal to do so. In December 2017, the Russian Ministry of Justice declared RFE/RL and eight of its Russian-language reporting projects to be "foreign mass media performing the functions of a foreign agent;" in November 2019, it added the Northern.Realities project to their list.
Radio Farda est une station de radio diffusant en persan vers l'Iran. Basée à Prague, elle est financée par le Broadcasting Board of Governors. Elle diffuse surtout de la musique, mais aussi des informations et des programmes culturels et politiques. Wikipédia
Radio Farda is the Persian language broadcaster at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, providing 24/7 radio programs for Iran on multiple platforms, including satellite, shortwave signal transmissions that fully cover Iran. In addition, Farda has a morning one-hour television show on satellite, “Breakfast with News”.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, an independent news company which receives a grant from the U.S. Congress through the United States Agency for Global Media. RFE/RL is required by U.S. law to provide factual, objective and professional journalism to its audiences. U.S. government officials, including the USAGM Chief Executive Officer, are prohibited from interfering in the reporting of news by RFE/RL. Our mission is to promote democratic values and institutions and to provide what many people in our audience cannot get locally: uncensored news, responsible discussion, and open debate. We serve 23 countries in 25 languages.
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