The Story Continues

Kambiz Hosseini moderates a new satire program for RFE/RL's Persian Language Service, Radio Farda.  December 26, 2014. 

Georgia--Marina Vashakmadze multitasks as RFE/RL's Tbilisi bureau chief and one of the presenters of the Georgian Service's award winning women's program, Gender Stories. 

Azerbaijan--Award winning investigative reporter and RFE/RL contributor Khadija Ismayilova has been in jail since Dec. 2014​ ​in what is widely viewed as an act of retribution by Azeri authorities for exposing corruption linked to the country’s ruling family.

Sergei Dorofeev, presenter of  Current Time, RFE/RL's new TV news program for Russian speakers in countries bordering Russia. 

Uzbekistan--Though prohibited from opperating in the country officially, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service has used social media to cultivate a network of citizen journalists who assist in reporting on the ground, including on forced labor in the annual cotton harvest. 

China -- RFE/RL Kyrgyz journalist Janyl Jusupjan interviews a trader near the Kyrgyz-China border. May 16, 2011.

 

Armenia -- RFE/RL journalist at work in Yerevan, undated. RFE/RL journalists were among those beaten and detained while covering demonstrations in the capital in June 2015. 

Radio Mashaal correspondent Umar Daraz Wazir, conducting an interview in Bannu, Pakistan. October 2014

Bosnia and Herzegovina--Lejla Omeragic Catic and Enes Hrnjic at RFE/RL's Balkan Service bureau in Sarajevo on January 28, 2014.