RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL RADIO STARTS BROADCASTING IN CIS LANGUAGES

ITAR-TASS
April 3 2008
Russia

The Voice of Russia radio company, which broadcasts worldwide in 37
languages, has started broadcasts in the languages of CIS states,
ITAR-TASS reported on 3 April, quoting the company’s representative
Yekaterina Yagunova.

According to her, there will be half-hour daily programmes in native
languages broadcast to Yerevan (Armenia) on the 106 FM frequency,
Chisinau (Moldova) on 103.2 FM, Tashkent (Uzbekistan) on 100.5 FM
and Osh (Kyrgyzstan) on 102 FM.

The daily news and analytical programmes will be broadcast in
Armenia, Moldova and Uzbekistan at 2000 local time and at 2300 in
Kyrgyzstan. The broadcasts were made possible thanks to Voice of
Russia’s partner broadcasters in these countries, Yagunova said.

ITAR-TASS also quoted Voice of Russia chairman, Armen Oganesyan, who
said that the company expects to widen the scope of its broadcasts
in the languages of other CIS countries, as well the Baltic states.