Page 149 - Current Time News Today

Photo: TASS Due to the boycott of the leading countries, the Ice Hockey World Championship in Belarus will be canceled by itself. On January 11, Lukashenka met with the President of the International Ice Hockey Federation Rene Fasel, who flew to Minsk on purpose to discuss the prospects of the World Championship. Competitions should be held in Belarus and Latvia. However, the Belarusian community, the opposition, the Latvian side, as well as a number of other participants in the championship h...

Ihar Losik, a prominent Belarusian blogger and consultant to RFE/RL who has been imprisoned in Belarus since June 2020, refuses to end his monthlong hunger strike although his wife says his health is deteriorating.

Roskomnadzor opens 8 administrative cases in relation to Radio Liberty projects MOSCOW. Jan 12 (Interfax) - Russian telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has drawn up eight of 18 administrative offence reports with regard to four websites that are projects of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty corporation for not displaying markings denoting them as media outlets designated as foreign agents in Russia, and these will be forwarded to courts within the next three days. "The first eight report...

Russian Watchdog Takes First Step Toward Punishing RFE/RL Under Foreign Agents Law January 12, 2021 16:02 GMT Updated January 12, 2021 20:14 GMT Share share Print MOSCOW -- Russias telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has drawn up its first eight administrative protocols -- all against Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty -- for violating the countrys controversial foreign agents law. Roskomnadzor said in a statement on its website on January 12 that the offenses are "for noncompliance by the me...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:15 UTC © RFE/RL Editors and section chiefs at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have sent a letter to Congress claiming their agency head is threatening their journalistic autonomy and stellar reputation, both of which are dubious concepts at best. The actions of Michael Pack, head of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), are "intended to revoke RFE/RLs financial autonomy" and "embed" his appointees within the services board of directors for two years, in an "unprecedent...

Hugs, Health, And Perseverance: Doctors Share Hopes For 2021 width No media source currently available 0:00 0:02:47 0:00 Current Time reporters asked doctors and medics who have been battling COVID-19 in different countries to share their advice and wishes for others in the new year. They hoped for an end to the pandemic -- and for patience and strength to face new challenges. Current Time is the Russian-language network led by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA. Share

Lukashenkos long rule over Belarus looks set to survive 2020. What about 2021? 7 Protests against Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus / AP With opposition leader forced to flee to Lithuania, what does the future for Belarus hold? Radio Free Europe reports. Ever since he came to power in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has used controlled elections and other levers at his disposal to prolong his own power and to restrain or eliminate rivals -- in some cases literally, according to those who believe he wa...

Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya had attracted larger and larger crowds as the election neared, however, making the official result -- 10 percent for Tsikhanouskaya, 80 percent for the incumbent -- an absurd lie in the eyes of many Belarusians. So they took to the streets. Many were already dismayed by the governments handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, with hospitals ill-equipped to handle the onslaught from a pandemic Lukashenka dismissed as a "mass psychosis." Hundreds of thousands of people have pro...

Moscow Police Briefly Detain Navalny Foundation Lawyer Who Tried To Meet FSB Agent December 22, 2020 10:56 GMT share Print Moscow police briefly detained Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalnys Anti-Corruption Foundation, after she tried to meet an agent who appears to have implicated the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the poisoning of the 44-year-old Kremlin critic. Navalny wrote on Twitter that Sobol was detained late on December 21 when she arrived at the...

RFE/RL Strengthens Editorial Support, Welcomes News Executives Ilves, Sukhotski, Boehler December 22, 2020 Share share Print WASHINGTON - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is pleased to announce that Andres Ilves will be returning to the U.S. international media organization as the Regional Director overseeing and providing support to RFE/RL’s language services for Iran, Afghanistan, and northwest Pakistan, effective February 1, 2021. As he returns, Ilves brings an intimate understandi...