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Michael Abramowitz has served as the director of Voice of America since June 2024. During the past few weeks, the Trump administration has attempted to fire him as well as to dismiss most of the VOA staff, but the federal courts have ruled that those actions violate federal law. As those cases are pending, Director Abramowitz will join University Professor Geoffrey Cowan (who ran VOA from 1994 to 1996) and Professor Nick Cull in discussing the political and legal challenges to VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

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