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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a United States government-funded broadcasting organization that provides news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East "where the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed". RFE/RL is a 501 corporation that receives U.S. government funding and is supervised by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an agency overseeing all U.S. federal government international broadcasting services. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has hosted 16 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1989 Forum. The year with the most events was 2003 with three events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2001 with an average of 2,037 views per video. Most appearances with Leonard Marks (2), Jeffrey Gedmin (2), Amin Tarzi (2). Most common tags: Afghanistan, Russian Federation, Soviet Union.

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