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Country
  
Russia

Dissolved
  
9 November 2014

Headquarters
  
Moscow, Russia

Availability
  
International

Type of business
  
Radio network

Launch date
  
22 December 1993

Founded
  
1993

Replaced by
  
Sputnik

Former names
  
Radio Moscow

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Owner
  
Rossiya Segodnya (owner before 9 Dec 2013 All-Russia State Television and Radio Company)

Official website
  
http://rus.ruvr.ru/ (inactive)

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The Voice of Russia (Russian: Голос России, Golos Rossii) was the Russian government's international radio broadcasting service from 1993 until 2014 when it was reorganized as Radio Sputnik. Its interval signal was a chime version of "Majestic" chorus from the "Great Gate of Kiev" portion of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.

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History

On 22 December 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued a decree which reorganized Radio Moscow with a new name: The Voice of Russia.

A popular feature of Voice of Russia was Moscow Mailbag, which answered listeners' questions in English about Russia. Until 2005, the programme was presented by Joe Adamov, who was known for his command of the English language and his good humour.

On 9 December 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a presidential decree liquidating Voice of Russia as an agency and merging it with RIA Novosti to form the Rossiya Segodnya international news agency.

Several reports published in 2013 claimed that Voice of Russia was to cease its shortwave service as of January 1, 2014 due to budget cuts, however service continued into the new year. Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of the Rossiya Segodnya, said in March 2014 that "We will stop using obsolete radio broadcasting models, when the signal is transmitted without any control and when it is impossible to calculate who listens to it and where." Voice of Russia ceased shortwave and European mediumwave broadcasting effective 1 April 2014. The service had continued to be available worldwide via the internet, in selected regions on satellite, and in several cities on FM, AM (in North America) or local digital radio.

On November 10, 2014, the Voice of Russia was replaced by Radio Sputnik, part of the Sputnik News multimedia platform operated by Rossiya Segodnya.

Former transmission network

The transmission network consisted of at least 30 high-power transmission sites (West to East, with first transmission dates):

  • Wachenbrunn, East Germany (1000 kW carrier power, MW)
  • Bolshakovo (2500 kW carrier power, MW)
  • Saint Petersburg (1961) [16 × 200 kW SW]
  • Moscow (5 known high-power SW transmission sites)
  • Krasnodar (1967) [8 × 100 kW SW, 8 × 500 kW SW]
  • Volgograd
  • Kamo, Armenia (site ceded to Armenia, but operated by RMOC)
  • Samara [6 × 250 kW SW, 3 × 200 kW SW, 7 × 100 kW SW]
  • Yekaterinburg [9 × 100 kW SW]
  • Tashkent (1000 kW carrier power?)
  • Dushanbe (1000 kW carrier power)
  • Omsk
  • Novosibirsk (1956) [17 × 100 kW SW, but 1000 kW carrier power capable]
  • Irkutsk (Angarsk, 1971) [2 × 100 kW, 4 × 250 kW SW, 8 × 500-kW)
  • Chita
  • Yakutsk
  • Vladivostok (1000 kW carrier power?)
  • Komsomolsk-on-Amur
  • Petropavlovsk-Magadan (1000 kW carrier power?)

    • Voice of Russia had broadcast in short, medium and longwave formats, in DAB+, DRM, HD-Radio, as well as through cable, satellite transmission and in mobile networks. VOR’s Internet coverage came in as many as 38 languages.

    Broadcast languages

    In 2013, the Voice of Russia had broadcast in 38 languages, including:

    References

    Voice of Russia Wikipedia
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