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A radio listener in Afghanistan. Radio Free Afghanistan is the most popular radio station in the country.

Rural Kyrgyz women are interviewed by a correspondent from RFE/RL's Kyrgyz service.

Belarusian correspondent Maksim Kapran covers a protest as riot police march in to shut it down.

Afghan Service Director Akbar Ayazi interviews President Hamid Karzai, 2006.

A correspondent based in Helmand Province, Afghanistan interviews locals who have been displaced from their villages.

More interviews with local people in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

A Kazakh Service correspondent interviews a falconer and his falcon.

Tanks in Gori, South Ossetia. - During the August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, RFE/RL's coverage was among the most complete.

Armenian Service correspondent Ruzanna Stepanian covers a standoff between police and demonstrators in downtown Yerevan.

Letters from listeners to RFE/RL’s Belarus Service.

Famed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is interviewed by our Russian Service before her murder in 2006.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is interviewed by RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari in July 2008.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a visit to RFE/RL's headquarters in Prague, 2009.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is interviewed during his visit to RFE/RL’s Prague headquarters, 2006.

Malahat Nasibova (R) marches in a torchlight ceremony after winning the 2009 Rafto Prize for Human Rights. - Malahat Nasibova, a correspondent for RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, was awarded the prestigious Rafto Prize in 2009 for her reporting on human rights in her native province of Nakhichevan.

RFE's Akbar Ayazi moderated the first ever debate between Afghan presidential candidates, August 2009.

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel presides over the first official editorial meeting at the new headquarters, 2009.

Joe Biden sits down with RFE in Prague in 2009.

The first broadcast of Radio Mashaal, RFE/RL's Pashto-language service to the Afghan-Pakistan border region-January 2010

RFE/RL reporter interviewing Afghan tribal members in 2010.

Radio Azadi employees hold a 40-meter letter from Afghanistan to be displayed at the Library of Congress in Wash-D.C. - RFE exhibit "Voices From Afghanistan" displaying some of the thousands of hand-painted scrolls and letters received by Afghanistan's most popular radio station, RFE/RL's Radio Azad held in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. The exhibit - "Voices From Afghanistan" - offered a window into the daily lives of ordinary Afghans from various ethnic communities across all parts of the country.

RFE/RL conducting radio distribution in Shaidave Province Afghanistan on October 25, 2010 - Radio Azadi distributed 20,000 solar-powered, hand-cranked radios throughout Afghanistan. The project, which began on September 17, 2010 targeted people in rural and remote areas where high illiteracy rates make radio the primary means of receiving information.

RFE/RL's new headquarters building in Prague, opened in 2009.