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Alhurra, which received around $112 million in 2024 from Congress, joined other state-supported outlets, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which had their funding frozen.

When Russia banned news about the war in Ukraine, people could learn about it from VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Emails obtained by CBS notified the bosses of Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that their federal grants had been terminated.

The prisoner exchange also involved the release of another journalist: Kurmasheva, a Russian American editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, who was detained in October while visiting her elderly mother.

An editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which is funded by the US government, she was convicted of spreading false information about the Russian military.