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authoritarianismx Chinese influencex Cold Warx conflictx democracyx diplomacyx historyx journalismx national securityx press freedomx propagandax Russian influencex soft powerx telling America's storyx Trump administrationx VOA standardsx

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East Asia and Pacificx Eurasiax Middle Eastx South and Central Asiax

25 academic/expert testimonial videos

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Omer BartovProfessor of holocaust and genocide studies, Brown University
Edward BoganFormer senior CIA operations officer
Mel BunceProfessor of international journalism and politics, University of London
Nicholas CullProfessor of public diplomacy, University of Southern California
Robert DalyFormer director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, former U.S. diplomat
Jamie FlyCEO of Freedom House, former president of RFE/RL
Nina JankowiczAuthor, counter-disinformation expert
Edward P. JosephSenior fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute
David KaninFormer CIA senior analyst
Brian KatulisSenior fellow at the Middle East Institute
Kathy Kiely Professor at Missouri School of Journalism
Richard KraemerCo-founder of U.S.-Europe Alliance
Mark KramerDirector of the Cold War Studies program, Harvard University’s Davis Center
Michael KugelmanSouth Asia regional expert
Allan LichtmanPolitical historian and professor, American University
Eric McGlincheyAssociate professor of government and politics, George Mason University
David PhillipsDirector of the Program on Peace-building and Human Rights, Columbia University
Mark PomarFormer VOA USSR division chief
Ret. Col. Raymond PowellDirector of SeaLight, former U.S. Air Force colonel
Daniel SerwerFormer U.S. special envoy for the Bosnian Federation, senior fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Eric ShiraevResearcher at George Mason University, co-founder of CARP research lab
David SimonAssistant dean, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
Bradley SimpsonForeign policy historian and professor, University of Connecticut
Angela StentDirector of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University; former U.S. diplomat
Anastasiya ZhyrmontEastern Europe and Central Asia policy manager, Access Now

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Voice of America silenced for the first time in 83 years

Since President Donald Trump issued his March 14, 2025, executive order that effectively began dismantling the Voice of America, the federally-funded broadcaster has lost almost all of its more than 360 million weekly global audience. Before the order, VOA produced about 2,400 hours of content each week across radio, television and digital — in 49 languages. Now, a skeleton crew is producing minimal content in just six languages. The quantity and quality of the content is a shadow of what it was. Nearly all VOA journalists have either been fired or placed on administrative leave. We need your help to show that a free press matters.

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