RFE/RL Receives April Funding

RFE/RL receives $12M from USAGM, its congressionally appropriated funds for the month of April, after a six-week delay and says it will continue its lawsuit

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Radio Free Europe continues its legal process to obtain full funding from Congress.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) received its April funding today, six weeks late, the Prague-based broadcaster said. But it is continuing its legal battle to recover all of the funding it received from the U.S. Congress this year that was taken away by the Trump administration. The United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) released $12 million to the station after a U.S. appeals court in Washington administratively stayed an earlier…

RFE/RL Receives April Funding

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty announced that it received its congressionally appropriated funds for April after a six-week delay. The U.S. Agency for Global Media released the $12 million owed after the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit administratively stayed an earlier decision by its divided three-judge panel that would have allowed USAGM to avoid paying RFE/RL the money it was supposed to receive in April. Now, the full group…