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Filled 25 to the Moscow representative office of Radio Liberty
August 27, 1991 - 25 years ago - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree allowing the opening of Radio Liberty in Moscow. This happened a few days after the failure of the coup attempt in the Soviet Union . Yeltsin and his associates recognized Radio Liberty as one of the main sources of reliable information about the country in the country in the days of the coup.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - a non -profit media corporation included in the US International Broadcasting System - sets its task to disseminate the values of democracy and civil society, turning to the audience of those countries in which the freedom of the press is either prohibited or limited by the authorities or has not yet become the norm of society.
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0:00 0:16:54Events dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Moscow Bureau of Radio Liberty were held in Russia in mid-July . "An example of independent professional journalism in difficult conditions of the changing world" called the activity of "Freedom", speaking in Moscow, Executive Director of the American Council of BBG GENTIONS (BBG) John Lance (BBG is the Council of Trustees of the entire foreign broadcasting of the United States, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty). The director of the Radio Corporation Free Europe/Freedom Thomas Kent emphasized that the employees of the Moscow Bureau of Freedom "sometimes in difficult conditions, always advocated a balanced, objective journalism, in the spirit of the highest international norms of professional activity and the principles of the universal declaration of human rights."
The Russian Radio Liberty Service began its work in 1953. In 1988, the Soviet leadership stopped the jamming of its radio programs. After 2000, Freedom lost all relayers in Russia and lost radio frequencies in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Currently, Radio Liberty is conducting round-the-clock broadcasting on the Internet and on medium waves, actively working on the Internet platform and on social networks, and is engaged in the production of socio-political video programs and film documentary.