Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

When Russia banned news about the war in Ukraine, people could learn about it from VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Emails obtained by CBS notified the bosses of Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that their federal grants had been terminated.

The prisoner exchange also involved the release of another journalist: Kurmasheva, a Russian American editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, who was detained in October while visiting her elderly mother.

An editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which is funded by the US government, she was convicted of spreading false information about the Russian military.

The country “seems to be grasping at anything that hurts Al Jazeera,” said Thomas Kent, former president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and an international consultant on media ethics.