Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty(RFE/RL)

Address: 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW Washington, DC 20036 USA
Contact Name: Jensen, Don
Phone: (202) 457-6947
Fax: (202) 457-6992
Email: jensend@rferl.org
URL: http://www.rferl.org

Founded: 1976
Staff: 593
Budget: $79,127,000

Description: Private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, funded by the U.S. Congress through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Listeners in 25 countries stretching from Belarus to Bosnia and from the Arctic Sea to the Persian Gulf, rely on RFE/RL's daily news, analysis and current affairs programming in 34 languages (none in English) to provide a coherent, objective account of events in their region and the world. Provides publications that are available at website, via email and fax subscription. Maintains pre-1995 archives that are held at Hoover Institution (Stanford University, CA) and Open Society Archives (Central European University, Budapest).

Publications: RFE/RL Afghanistan Report, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL Balkan Report, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL Baltic States Report, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL Caucasus Report, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL Central Asia Report, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL East European Perspectives, biweekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL Iran Report, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL Iraq Report, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL Media Matters, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL Newsline, daily. Newsletter. ALTERNATE FORMATS: online. * RFE/RL Organized Crime and Terrorism Watch, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine Report, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL Russian Political Weekly Newsletter. * RFE/RL South Slavic Report, weekly. Newsletter. * RFE/RL (Un)Civil Societies, weekly. Newsletter. * Also publishes indexes.

Conventions / Meetings: periodic Briefings meeting.