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The Trump administration’s abrupt freeze on foreign aid has plunged exiled Russian NGOs and media outlets into uncertainty, jeopardizing their funding and posing what some are describing as the greatest challenge to Russian civil society since the Kremlin enacted its “undesirable” organization law a decade ago. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a sweeping directive last Friday, pausing all foreign aid for 90 days. The move aims to give the Trump administration time to review which programs align with the president’s “America First” agenda and determine which should continue receiving U.S. funding. Organizations have been issued stop-work notices on...

I believe there are few, if any, nations in the modern world where independence means as much today as it does in Ukraine. Ukraine’s fight for independence took centuries. And when we finally got it after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, its successor, Russia, soon tried to subjugate Ukraine again. I’m Ukrainian but my first words were in Russian. In fact, all of my words were in Russian until I started school. Like many other Ukrainian families, mine used to be Ukrainian-speaking once, but was Russified over recent generations The big bang that changed it all happened in 2014....

Jennifer Griffin is awarded the 2022 "Freedom of the Media" Gold Medal for Public Service award. Awardees 2022 TLN Gold Medal for Public Service Jennifer Griffin, National Security Correspondent at the Pentagon, Fox News TLN Gold Medal for Investigative Reporting Olga Rudenko, editor-in-chief, Kyiv Independent (Ukraine) TLN Freedom of the Media Award for International Reporting Shireen Abu Akleh (posthumous), Al Jazeera Arabic, (Palestinian Territories – U.S.) TLN Freedom of the Media Award for Explanatory Reporting Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler, (Philippines) TLN Freedom of the Media Award for Commentary and Criticism Željko Ivanović and Vijesti.me, (Montenegro) TLN Freedom of the...