On June 25, Radio Sawa launched its Mauritania stream bringing objective and relevant news and information, along with a compelling mix of popular Arabic, African and Western music, to the people of Mauritania.  Read More

The Broadcasting Board of Governors met on June 20 at the Office of Cuba Broadcasting to examine opportunities for the Mart�s and their impact as Cuba experiments with incremental change while remaining the most isolated country in the Western hemisphere. Read More

The Voice of America has signed a new agreement with the leading digital call-to-listen platform, AudioNow, to provide VOA programming inside the United States. The new agreement expands an on-going relationship between VOA and AudioNow, which already distributes programming from VOA in 34 languages by phone. Read More

With a violent insurgency creating instability in Iraq, accurate and reliable news is more important than ever. The networks of the BBG are bringing important news and information programming to the region. Read More

The 2014 NBA Finals between three-time champions Miami Heat against the four-time champions San Antonio Spurs was one of the most popular rematches in recent NBA history, and Radio Mart� brought all the action live to audiences in Cuba. Read More

In his second interview with Voice of America in four months, Haitian President Michel Martelly told VOA Creole on June 27 that he supports the gradual departure of the UN Stabilization Mission in his country, which has been stationed in Haiti since 2004. Read More

In a Martinoticias exclusive, Karen Caballero spoke with jailed Cuban writer and independent blogger Angel Santiesteban-Prats, who has been incarcerated in Cuba for 15 months. The interview was conducted on a mobile phone that had been smuggled into the prison where Santiesteban-Prats has been incarcerated since February 2013. Read More

Representative Marcy Kaptur, who chairs the U.S. Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, spoke with the Ukrainian Services of RFE/RL and Voice of America during a trip with Vice President Biden to Kyiv to attend the June 7 inauguration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Azerbaijani Service, Radio Azadliq, conducted separate interviews with U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Ben Cardin and Representative Chris Smith, in Baku this week as members of the U.S. delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), speaking with them about human rights, U.S.-Azerbaijan relations and stability in the region. Read More

Congressman David Price (D-NC) sat down with the Voice of America's Urdu Service on June 12 to discuss a range of topics including Edward Snowden, the NSA surveillance program, and the Iran nuclear negotiations. Price, who has chaired the House Democracy Partnership, told Caf� DC host Faiz Rehman, that there is more work to be done helping emerging democracies around the world. Read More

With the new Radio Sawa mobile app launched on June 30, fans have instant access to streams of breaking news, music, original programing and hourly news updates.
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At the June 3 BBG Research Series, the agency released new survey results which indicated Ukrainians' political attitudes diverge by region despite the majority of the country turning to only a handful of top TV outlets for news. Read More


Please join us on July 29 for a research briefing on news consumption habits and attitudes in Turkey, along with, for the first time, an in-depth look at the distinctive media consumption habits among Turkey's Kurdish population.  Read more and register

Myroslava Gongadze of the Voice of America Ukrainian Service and Nenad Pejic, Editor in Chief and interim manager of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, spoke at a June 2 panel entitled "Responding to Russian Propaganda."  Read More

Radio Sawa and Radio Free Asia Win at the New York Festivals

On June 23 two networks from the BBG were honored for their excellence by the New York Festivals. Radio Sawa won gold for its coverage of the July 2013 clashes between Egyptian President Morsi's supporters and opponents in Egypt's public squares. Radio Free Asia won a bronze medal its expos� on Chinese "birth tourism," "Born in the USA: Instant Citizenship in Saipan."

Alhurra correspondent Bashar Fahmi was reporting from Aleppo, Syria, when a firefight broke out, and he went missing. There has been no word from Fahmi since his disappearance approximately 22 months ago. Read More