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The Czech government pledged to intervene and support Radio Europe/Radio Freedom after the administration of US President Donald Trump cut off the broadcaster, which was facing the propaganda of authoritarian regimes such as Russia and Iran.

The Prague -based media outlet depends on American federal grants and was initially prepared to communicate outside the iron curtain during the Cold War. Funding cuts were part of Trump’s effort to reduce external aid, and to close Voice of America, a federal broadcaster was launched during World War II.

“We will do everything we can to give them the opportunity to continue this very important role,” Czech Prime Minister Peter Villa told the Financial Times, adding that he listened to the Free Europe Radio in his youth.

Viela called for “a coalition of countries for a European solution.” He said he felt “very proud” to host the RFE/RL and hopes to stay in Prague, where he was based since 1995.

the Czech The government has recruited seven other countries to the European Union to help find new funds for RFE/RL, and until Foreign Minister Jean -Leipvski proposed a European acquisition: “If we see value in it, it is logical to consider ways to secure its future, including the possibility of purchasing it.”

The media group says that its 1700 employees still have a weekly audience of 47 million, through 23 countries and 27 languages.

Elon Musk, who leads Trump’s efforts to reduce public administration, called for the closure of RFE/RL, and rejected it as “crazy people leaving talking to themselves during a billion billion dollar flames of US taxpayers’ money.”

The broadcaster hopes that he can reduce the aid discounts in the court. On Tuesday, a lawsuit against the US Agency for Global Information was filed for violating the US constitution by ending grants, which covered its annual budget of $ 142 million. “We believe that the law is next to us and that the celebration of our death by tyrants all over the world is premature,” said CEO Stephen Kabous.

Pavel Potorin, director of the RFE/RL Russian Language-TV channel, said that Trump was “shock” left Russian officials “appeared champagne”. He said he was still hoping that the American conference will return to the matter. Historically, “some of the strongest supporters came from the Republican side, so I hope they will talk.”

Potorin has a painful personal experience of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the media after the arrest of his wife when she visited her family in Russia in 2023. Caramashiva, who works in RFE/RL, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison due to leadership crimes that included the spread of wrong information about the Russian forces in Ukreen.

It was released as part of Russia, the United States Plated prisoner In August last year after she kept what her husband called “canceling his humanity, sleeping and eating 3 feet from a hole on the ground as a toilet.”

“The” fan “support from Prague and some other European governments showed that it” understood the importance “of the broadcaster’s work. She said: “The war in Ukraine is not a far fact, but it occurs on its borders.”

Potorin said that funding problems can put the right to remain in the European Union for many employees who have accommodations associated with their work. Half 160 Russian TV employees.

He said: “Our journalists are interested in their countries, and they do not see themselves as representatives of America.”