[HCDX] 75th anniversary of Russian radio broadcasts in foreign languages

["Mike Terry" <miketerry73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

15 October 2004

Moscow, (Itar-Tass)

The seventy-fifth anniversary of radio broadcasts in foreign languages will
be marked in Russia this year. Itar-Tass was told at the Russian "Golos
Rossii" (Voice of Russia) state broadcasting company, which has been
representing Russia on the air all these years, that the most eminent
broadcasters in foreign languages, including directors and presidents of
foreign radio broadcasting companies, would come to Moscow on October 29 on
the occasion of the jubilee and to attend the "Radio Without Borders"
international conference.

The conference will be held on the day when the first broadcasts in the
German language came from Russia in 1929. This was the world's first case of
international radio broadcasting. The BBC appeared on the air three years
later and the "Voice of America" - seven years later. Moscow began to
broadcast in French in November of the same year, and in English - in
December.

"Voice of Russia" officials noted that the world public at large always
evinces particular interest in the broadcasts of their station during global
crises and it sometimes even plays a special role in the events themselves.
This happened, for instance, during the Caribbean crisis in the early
sixties, when the negotiations between the USSR and the United States were
deadlocked.

The Moscow Radio was the first at that time to inform Washington and the
entire world about the Soviet Union's decision to turn back its warships
from the Atlantic, which were heading for Cuba.

Today, the "Voice of Russia" daily broadcasts in Russian and in thirty-one
foreign languages for a total of 115 hours. The company relays 400
programmes on different aspects of life within the country. The "Voice of
Russia" is listened in more than 160 countries. The global audience of the
"Voice of Russia" numbers 109 million people.

http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1351113&PageNum=0



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