Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Five years after it was relaunched, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is shutting down its Hungarian service.
The U.S.-funded independent news service, called Szabad Europa, announced on Friday that it is immediately shutting down.
"We are deeply grateful for the trust, engagement and support our readers have shown us," the service said in a statement.
RFE/RL's Hungarian service originally ran from 1950 through 1993, but was relaunched in 2000 by an act of Congress in an effort to offer Hungarians an accurate, independent source of information.
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