The fourth day of the war of Israel and Iran. The IDF inflicts strikes on various purposes in Iran, including those related to the Iranian nuclear program. As a result of the Iranian missile strike on Israel, 8 people were killed tonight, hundreds were injured. The missiles hit residential quarters. The IDF announced strikes on missile systems and military facilities in Tehran.

As a conflict in the Middle East is reflected in oil prices and the world economy, who is interested in pulling the conflict, and whoever can act as an intermediary - we speak with political scientist Amir Chakhaki and orientalist Ruslan Suleimanov.

Collage: confrontation Israel Iran How long will Israel's clash with Iran last? The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the end of a wave of attacks on Iranian weapons production facilities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted that the IDF strike killed the head of the intelligence organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and his deputy.

How the First World War led to revolution. Memoirs of witnesses of October. Replay of the broadcast from November 6, 2022

US President Donald Trump arrived in Canada The summit of the Group of Seven (G7), the world's leading industrialized democracies, opens today in Canada.

Radio Liberty News: final release

Fire in the building of the Iranian state television company IRIB in Tehran, June 16, 2025 Israel struck the headquarters of the Iranian state television company IRIB in Tehran, after which broadcasting was interrupted. A live video of the attack was published on social networks. BREAKING: The moment of the attack on IRIB (Iran State Broadcaster) pic.twitter.com/CVU26HHFub — Faytuks Network (@FaytuksNetwork) June 16, 2025 Iranian Radio and Television building on fire following Israeli strikes.

To the 50th anniversary of Radio Liberty. From the archives: the drama of refuseniks, about the sale of Sergei Diaghilev’s library, Mikhail Shemyakin comes to New York. Poet Ivan Elagin is at the microphone. The fate of Natalia Gorbanevskaya. Nobel Peace Prize to Andrei Sakharov. "Walking with Pushkin" by Abram Tertz. Letter from Voinovich to Andropov.

The EU Council has extended the sanctions imposed against Russia for the annexation of Crimea for another year. The restrictions were introduced in June 2014 and include a ban on imports into the EU of products produced in annexed Crimea; a ban on infrastructure or financial investments and the provision of tourism services in Crimea.

One impressionable and unconditionally honest liberal thinker expressed sincere bewilderment on social networks: when will finally, under the pressure of indisputable facts, even the most stubborn stubborn people from the sect of Donald Trump supporters realize that they were on the wrong side of the historical barricade, electing for president and continuing to support this pathetic, insignificant person, this self-important boor?

Why does the Russian Orthodox Church support a war designed to restore the empire? What are the prospects for the Russian Orthodox Church in the post-Soviet space? Vitaly Portnikov’s guests are Father Georgy Kovalenko, priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and President of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Scholars Lyudmila Filipovich.

Abroad is a concept both physical, administrative, and philosophical, metaphorical. There is a concept of internal emigration. The heroes of the podcast are people who have changed their daily lives due to their political, religious or moral principles. They, too, are building the history of the 21st century.

Russia on Monday handed over to Ukraine the bodies of another 1,245 dead Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen. This was reported by the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. As the headquarters said in a statement, on June 16, the final stage of the return of the bodies took place within the framework of the agreements reached between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2. In total, the Ukrainian side received the bodies of 6,057 people.