Given how easy it is to get news from a wide variety of news sources from around the world, I am not sure how necessary Voice of America is these days. But I do think that Radio Free Europe (another U.S. funded news source that came out of the cold war) is one of the best places to find news about the non-European former soviet republics that is published in English. Central Asia and the Caucuses are not well covered in other English language media.
