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May 9, 2025

Tahir in MSNBC on RFE/RL, VOA funding

By Muhammad Tahir

On May 9, Muhammad Tahir, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and former RFE/RL Central and South Asia liaison in Washington, DC, was published in MSNBC on the future of RFE/RL, Voice of America, and funding for international media.

And once the watchdogs are gone, authoritarianism doesn’t creep in — it storms through the front door.

Muhammad Tahir