Cutting @rferl.org.web.brid.gy's funding is one of the Trump administration's most blatant acts of Kremlin-friendly sabotage. It's been an invaluable news and archive source in and about the formerly communist-run states of Europe and Central Asia.🧵 - ThreadSky

ruthdeyermond.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Cutting @rferl.org.web.brid.gy's funding is one of the Trump administration's most blatant acts of Kremlin-friendly sabotage. It's been an invaluable news and archive source in and about the formerly communist-run states of Europe and Central Asia.🧵

Reposted from Euromaidan Press

Trump has shut down Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, ending 80 years of independent journalism.

These media outlets fought censorship, exposed authoritarian regimes, and provided a free press where none existed.

This is a major loss for democracy and global reporting.

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andreashopf.bsky.social•7 days ago

A devastating destruction of knowledge. And we are only in the first innings.

@joerglau.bsky.social
@mathieuvonrohr.bsky.social

ruthdeyermond.bsky.social•7 days ago

As well as reporting and analysis,
@RFERL
produce photo essays and photo collections from their archives. They're a brilliant visual record of the recent(ish) past. This is one on the night Lithuania declared independence in March 1990:
https://www.rferl.org/a/photographing-the-night-lithuania-declared-independence-from-the-soviet-union/30481214.html

ruthdeyermond.bsky.social•7 days ago

From Jan 2025, on Ukraine's Orange Revolution: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-orange-revolution-20-year-anniversary-photos/33262259.html

ruthdeyermond.bsky.social•7 days ago

And from February 2025, on the 3rd anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: https://www.rferl.org/a/serhii-nuzhnenko-war-ukraine-russia-invasion-three-years-photos/33323875.html

ruthdeyermond.bsky.social•7 days ago

On the 30th anniversary of the failed 1991 coup: https://www.rferl.org/a/news-and-views-of-the-soviet-coup----as-it-came-in-/31418010.html

ruthdeyermond.bsky.social•7 days ago

Published a couple of years before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a reminder of what Putin did to Chechnya 20 years before: https://www.rferl.org/a/the-second-chechen-war-in-photos/30185257.html

ruthdeyermond.bsky.social•7 days ago

There's also this very good 2019 story by @mikeeckel.bsky.social on the 1999 apartment block bombings that paved the way for the resumption of the Chechen war and the presidency of Putin. You can see why Putin would like @rferl.org.web.brid.gy to disappear https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-russia-president-1999-chechnya-apartment-bombings/30097551.html

captainwillard.bsky.social•7 days ago

How Americans are not out in their millions protesting about this Russian agent in the WH is beyond me… what’s happened to you America?

andreashopf.bsky.social•7 days ago

Most Americans only care about the price of eggs and bacon.

all-a-mort.bsky.social•7 days ago

Every action he takes on foreign policy or related matters seems to be to the benefit of Russia and China. After a while you have to consider that the likelihood is that it isn't mere coincidence. There's a reason the Kremlin will only talk directly to Trump.

jsargentr.bsky.social•7 days ago

It is Kremlin friendly, but it's also well in line with GOP ideological arc from the 90s.

tomoljenkins.bsky.social•7 days ago

With Trump dismantling @rferl.org.web.brid.gy and other international stations it's absolutely necessary for the BBC World Service to be reinforced, not cut, as part of our defences against Russian imperialism https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/12/bbc-world-service-funding-call-counter-disinformation

ruthdeyermond.bsky.social•7 days ago

Absolutely.

tomoljenkins.bsky.social•7 days ago

(Maybe they could shaft Kuennsberg's waste of time prog instead)

sherbety.bsky.social•7 days ago

When the impossible has been eliminated whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

And it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to work out why he’s done this.

There’s literally no benefit to America, and huge benefit to Russia.

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