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U.S. challenges Kremlin with new Russian TV channel

President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Thomas Kent is pictured during an interview with AFP on February 20, 2017 at the headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague. Nearly three decades after it helped topple communist totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe, the US state-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is challenging Moscow again, this time with a new 24-hour TV news channel in Russian.

 
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on March 01, 2017, on page 6.

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