#radioliberty — Public Fediverse posts

Ukrainian Unit Uses Ground Drones To Save Soldiers On The Battlefield | Ukraine Front Line Update

#RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty #RFE #RL #Ukraine #Russia #Drone (13 February 2026)

https://youtu.be/wEVotwZPAcc?si=QR9gruR0Ojx2unFv

Ukrainian Unit Uses Ground Drones To Save Soldiers On The Battlefield | Ukraine Front Line Update

#RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty #RFE #RL #Ukraine #Russia #Drone (13 February 2026)

https://youtu.be/wEVotwZPAcc?si=QR9gruR0Ojx2unFv

Saturday, January 3. 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/saturday-january-3-2026/

Saturday, January 3. 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/saturday-january-3-2026/

Meet #Ukraine ’s “Bucha Witches”: Women Defending Kyiv From #Russia Air Attacks
#RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty
#RFE / #RL

https://youtu.be/CkOsJIaE8A0?si=AZvYDOicc_wR0Rdv

Meet #Ukraine ’s “Bucha Witches”: Women Defending Kyiv From #Russia Air Attacks
#RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty
#RFE / #RL

https://youtu.be/CkOsJIaE8A0?si=AZvYDOicc_wR0Rdv

“Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Hungarian Service Ceases Operations”

https://swling.com/blog/2025/11/radio-free-europe-radio-libertys-hungarian-service-ceases-operations/

#BalzsKovcs #RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty

“Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Hungarian Service Ceases Operations”

https://swling.com/blog/2025/11/radio-free-europe-radio-libertys-hungarian-service-ceases-operations/

#BalzsKovcs #RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty

This is part of the reason Trump wanted USAID shut down.

Because some media it funded like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty were exposing the pro-Russia corruption of his friends like Viktor Orbán in Hungary.

Whatever Trumpists think ”liberty” means these days, it clearly doesn’t involve small countries fighting back against larger, nuclear armed, ones.

#usaid #radiofreeeurope #radioliberty

This is part of the reason Trump wanted USAID shut down.

Because some media it funded like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty were exposing the pro-Russia corruption of his friends like Viktor Orbán in Hungary.

Whatever Trumpists think ”liberty” means these days, it clearly doesn’t involve small countries fighting back against larger, nuclear armed, ones.

#usaid #radiofreeeurope #radioliberty

U.S. Global Media Agency to Lay Off Hundreds at VOA, RFA, and RFE/RL

https://swling.com/blog/2025/08/u-s-global-media-agency-to-lay-off-hundreds-at-voa-rfa-and-rfe-rl/

#RadioLiberty #RFA #RFE #USAGM #VOA

U.S. Global Media Agency to Lay Off Hundreds at VOA, RFA, and RFE/RL

https://swling.com/blog/2025/08/u-s-global-media-agency-to-lay-off-hundreds-at-voa-rfa-and-rfe-rl/

#RadioLiberty #RFA #RFE #USAGM #VOA

On the Media explores the power of shortwave radio and press freedom

https://swling.com/blog/2025/08/on-the-media-explores-the-power-of-shortwave-radio-and-press-freedom/

#BayFang #KatieThornton #MicahLoewinger #OnTheMedia #RadioLiberty #RFA #RFE #ShortwaveRadio #WhyShortwave

On the Media explores the power of shortwave radio and press freedom

https://swling.com/blog/2025/08/on-the-media-explores-the-power-of-shortwave-radio-and-press-freedom/

#BayFang #KatieThornton #MicahLoewinger #OnTheMedia #RadioLiberty #RFA #RFE #ShortwaveRadio #WhyShortwave

Lake, the fmr *news*caster #Trump put in charge of the dept that includes the international broadcast network, sent layoff notices last week to all but around 200 reporters & support staff at #VoiceOfAmerica & the parent agency she leads. She has also withheld #funding from other #news orgs that are separate nonprofits but receive federal dollars, such as #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty & #RadioFreeAsia.

#law #democracy #FreePress #SoftPower #journalism #independence #censorship #dictatorship

Lake, the fmr *news*caster #Trump put in charge of the dept that includes the international broadcast network, sent layoff notices last week to all but around 200 reporters & support staff at #VoiceOfAmerica & the parent agency she leads. She has also withheld #funding from other #news orgs that are separate nonprofits but receive federal dollars, such as #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty & #RadioFreeAsia.

#law #democracy #FreePress #SoftPower #journalism #independence #censorship #dictatorship

Sunday, June 1, 2025

UK identifies Russia as an ‘immediate and pressing’ threat in new defense review — Ukraine’s enduring cyber defense: Assessing resilience and impact of shifting international support — European leaders shift focus to defending Ukraine without US support — Pompeo urges Trump not to legitimize Russia’s land grabs in Ukraine … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/sunday-june-1-2025/

https://youtu.be/l3eSLvRKTsQ
⛔️🇺🇸NPR sues Trump over executive order to cut funding to public media (AP VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #NPR #PBS #VoA #RFE #RadioLiberty #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

https://youtu.be/l3eSLvRKTsQ
⛔️🇺🇸NPR sues Trump over executive order to cut funding to public media (AP VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #NPR #PBS #VoA #RFE #RadioLiberty #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

#EU will provide emergency funds to help keep #RadioFreeEurope afloat after US cuts

May 20, 2025

"The European Union agreed Tuesday to provide emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet, accusing it of promoting a news agenda with a liberal bias.

"Radio Free Europe / #RadioLiberty started broadcasting during the #ColdWar. Its programs are aired in 27 languages in 23 countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. Its lawyers have been fighting the administration in court.

"EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc’s foreign ministers had agreed to a 5.5-million-euro ($6.2 million) contract to 'support the vital work of Radio Free Europe.' The 'short-term emergency funding' is a 'safety net' for #IndependentJournalism, she said.

"Kallas said the EU would not be able to fill the organization’s funding gap around the world, but that it can help the broadcaster to 'work and function in those countries that are in our neighborhood and that are very much dependent on news coming from outside.' "

https://apnews.com/article/europe-radio-free-trump-funds-9e6283df860222e825c81ff0c1c0ef9b

#DOGECuts #BadDOGE #USPol #WorldPol #ResistAuthoritarianism #ResistFascism #Journalism #SilencingJournalism

#EU will provide emergency funds to help keep #RadioFreeEurope afloat after US cuts

May 20, 2025

"The European Union agreed Tuesday to provide emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet, accusing it of promoting a news agenda with a liberal bias.

"Radio Free Europe / #RadioLiberty started broadcasting during the #ColdWar. Its programs are aired in 27 languages in 23 countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. Its lawyers have been fighting the administration in court.

"EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc’s foreign ministers had agreed to a 5.5-million-euro ($6.2 million) contract to 'support the vital work of Radio Free Europe.' The 'short-term emergency funding' is a 'safety net' for #IndependentJournalism, she said.

"Kallas said the EU would not be able to fill the organization’s funding gap around the world, but that it can help the broadcaster to 'work and function in those countries that are in our neighborhood and that are very much dependent on news coming from outside.' "

https://apnews.com/article/europe-radio-free-trump-funds-9e6283df860222e825c81ff0c1c0ef9b

#DOGECuts #BadDOGE #USPol #WorldPol #ResistAuthoritarianism #ResistFascism #Journalism #SilencingJournalism

A Sampling of Coverage: Federal Judge Orders USAGM Staff Reinstated

https://swling.com/blog/2025/04/a-sampling-of-coverage-federal-judge-orders-usagm-staff-reinstated/

#OfficeOfCubanBroadcasting #RadioFreeAsia #RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty #USAGM #VOACuts #VoiceOfAmerica

A Sampling of Coverage: Federal Judge Orders USAGM Staff Reinstated

https://swling.com/blog/2025/04/a-sampling-of-coverage-federal-judge-orders-usagm-staff-reinstated/

#OfficeOfCubanBroadcasting #RadioFreeAsia #RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty #USAGM #VOACuts #VoiceOfAmerica

#Trump is demanding to attach conditions to congressionally approved grants for #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty before releasing the money, despite a court order blocking it from terminating the funds. Acc/to court filings, Trump wants to be able to unilaterally pause funds for the federally funded broadcaster & shut down parts of its programming, among other moves that lawyers for #RFE say are forbidden by #Congress to ensure journalistic integrity.

#law #FreePress
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524.28.1.pdf

#Trump is demanding to attach conditions to congressionally approved grants for #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty before releasing the money, despite a court order blocking it from terminating the funds. Acc/to court filings, Trump wants to be able to unilaterally pause funds for the federally funded broadcaster & shut down parts of its programming, among other moves that lawyers for #RFE say are forbidden by #Congress to ensure journalistic integrity.

#law #FreePress
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524/gov.uscourts.dcd.278524.28.1.pdf

Donald Trump’s attempts to defund US Russian-language #counterpropaganda efforts in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Belarus, Central Asia and Russia through #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty failed, so what they did is they actually terminated contracts with satellite companies who transmit those signals.

If you were trying to help Russia win, this would be it. #Propaganda is by far their strongest suite. In fact perhaps the only thing they are best in the world at. #NAFO

https://www.rferl.org/a/usagm-satellite-broadcasts-radio-free-europe-russian-language-current-time/33373678.html

Donald Trump’s attempts to defund US Russian-language #counterpropaganda efforts in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Belarus, Central Asia and Russia through #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty failed, so what they did is they actually terminated contracts with satellite companies who transmit those signals.

If you were trying to help Russia win, this would be it. #Propaganda is by far their strongest suite. In fact perhaps the only thing they are best in the world at. #NAFO

https://www.rferl.org/a/usagm-satellite-broadcasts-radio-free-europe-russian-language-current-time/33373678.html

Radio Free Europe says Washington shut off its Russian broadcast despite restraining order.

Washington has switched off a satellite transmitting the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty into Russia.

Although the station won a temporary restraining order against US President Donald Trump's funding freeze, it is still waiting to receive the $77 million it needs to keep running until October.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250403-radio-free-europe-says-washington-shut-off-its-russian-broadcast-despite-restraining-order?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty #Czechia #Russia #Radio #Media #Trump

Radio Free Europe says Washington shut off its Russian broadcast despite restraining order.

Washington has switched off a satellite transmitting the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty into Russia.

Although the station won a temporary restraining order against US President Donald Trump's funding freeze, it is still waiting to receive the $77 million it needs to keep running until October.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250403-radio-free-europe-says-washington-shut-off-its-russian-broadcast-despite-restraining-order?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty #Czechia #Russia #Radio #Media #Trump

Judge Sides with VOA Journalists in Legal Challenge

https://swling.com/blog/2025/03/judge-sides-with-voa-journalists-in-legal-challenge/

#OfficeOfCubanBroadcasting #RadioLiberty #RFA #RFE #USAGM #VoiceOfAmercia

Judge Sides with VOA Journalists in Legal Challenge

https://swling.com/blog/2025/03/judge-sides-with-voa-journalists-in-legal-challenge/

#OfficeOfCubanBroadcasting #RadioLiberty #RFA #RFE #USAGM #VoiceOfAmercia

Federal Judge Temporarily Preserves RFE/RL Funding

https://swling.com/blog/2025/03/federal-judge-temporarily-preserves-rfe-rl-funding/

#RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty #RFE

Federal Judge Temporarily Preserves RFE/RL Funding

https://swling.com/blog/2025/03/federal-judge-temporarily-preserves-rfe-rl-funding/

#RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty #RFE

https://theconversation.com/how-us-foreign-aid-cuts-are-threatening-independent-media-in-former-soviet-states-251763. Add this to Trump's closure of #voiceofamerica, #radiofreeeurope, #radioliberty & #radiofreeasia, & voices of #freedom in the #media globally are greatly diminished.

"And now one of them has vanished. Now people without the intelligence to distinguish Radio Liberty from a radio receiver have accepted an equation from the hands of executioners and tyrants. This equation is much stronger than an electric current: 2+2=5."

- Stanislav Aseyev

https://snyder.substack.com/p/225

🧵 3/3 end

#USpol #media #journalism #RadioLiberty

"And now one of them has vanished. Now people without the intelligence to distinguish Radio Liberty from a radio receiver have accepted an equation from the hands of executioners and tyrants. This equation is much stronger than an electric current: 2+2=5."

- Stanislav Aseyev

https://snyder.substack.com/p/225

🧵 3/3 end

#USpol #media #journalism #RadioLiberty

"By that time I’d managed to write fifty-some articles for Radio Liberty, which exposed the totalitarian world of torture in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The masked people who tortured me told me Radio Liberty was still a branch of the CIA, and therefore an unequivocal enemy of Russia.

Like I said, everything was simple: two worlds – freedom and tyranny – and a chair with wires between them like a border between these worlds."

🧵 2/3

https://snyder.substack.com/p/225

#USpol #RadioLiberty

"By that time I’d managed to write fifty-some articles for Radio Liberty, which exposed the totalitarian world of torture in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The masked people who tortured me told me Radio Liberty was still a branch of the CIA, and therefore an unequivocal enemy of Russia.

Like I said, everything was simple: two worlds – freedom and tyranny – and a chair with wires between them like a border between these worlds."

🧵 2/3

https://snyder.substack.com/p/225

#USpol #RadioLiberty

"The electric current that ran through my body on April 11, 2017, for articles I’d written for Radio Liberty, forces my muscles to contract. Victims’ psyches 'contract' in the same way, enabling them to endure torture: the organism musters everything it has.

Sitting in that chair at the 'Ministry of State Security' in Russian occupied Donetsk, I knew why I was there."

🧵 1/3

https://snyder.substack.com/p/225

#USpol #media #journalism #RadioLiberty

"The electric current that ran through my body on April 11, 2017, for articles I’d written for Radio Liberty, forces my muscles to contract. Victims’ psyches 'contract' in the same way, enabling them to endure torture: the organism musters everything it has.

Sitting in that chair at the 'Ministry of State Security' in Russian occupied Donetsk, I knew why I was there."

🧵 1/3

https://snyder.substack.com/p/225

#USpol #media #journalism #RadioLiberty

"The electric current that ran through my body on April 11, 2017, for articles I’d written for Radio Liberty, forces my muscles to contract. Victims’ psyches 'contract' in the same way, enabling them to endure torture: the organism musters everything it has." 1/6 #USpol #journalism #RadioLiberty

2+2=5

"In violation of the law and the Constitution, the Trump administration purports to have closed Radio Free/Radio Liberty, a medium which is the source of much of what we known about Russia and the post-communist world.

If America destroys one of its own symbols, and Russia applauds it from every federal channel - then maybe 2 + 2 really does equal 5?" - Timothy Snyder

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/225

#USPOL
#RadioFree
#RadioLiberty
#Russia

#RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty sued the #Trump admin on Tues to try to block it from terminating all federal funds for the US-backed broadcaster.

In a federal lawsuit, the network argues that the #USAGM has violated the #Constitution & federal laws by withholding money #Congress expressly allocated for the broadcaster. USAGM disburses funds to US-backed international networks, including RFE/RL, that serve foreign lands w/o a free or robust press.

#FourthEstate #law
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5332379/rfe-rl-sues-trump-usagm-kari-lake

USAGM Shutdowns: A Roundup of Reports and Reactions

https://swling.com/blog/2025/03/usagm-shutdowns-a-roundup-of-reports-and-reactions/

#EdwardRMurrowTransmittingStation #InternationalBroadcasting #RadioLiberty #RadioMarti #RFA #RFE #USAGM #VoiceOfAmerica

Testimony by Ukrainian journalist who was tortured by Russia, in part for writing for Radio Liberty.

Now set to be defunded by Trump along with Radio Free Europe and Voice Of America.

https://bsky.app/profile/stanislavaseyev.bsky.social/post/3lkjhsfkszs2f

#Ukraine #Journalism #Media #RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty #VOA

After Trump moved to pull the plug on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Czech foreign minister hopes the EU can keep the broadcaster ‘at least partially’ on air.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-minister-urges-eu-response-in-wake-of-trump-cuts-to-radio-free-europe/

#rferl #radioliberty #voa #radiofreeeurope

Genuine question looking for thoughtful answers: is this important or not? How influential is #VOA / #RFE / #RL in today's social media world? Does it have a big impact in getting around censorship still or not? #VoiceOfAmerica #RadioFreeEurope #RadioLiberty https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/03/16/7503096/

What's being missed in this #RadioLiberty/VOA closure by the #Trump admin is they will not just close, but will now be turned into privately owned #fascist #propaganda rags for the #Musk/Trump team.

Hard to understand how folks still don't see how all this works steps ahead.