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| Type | Radio network |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Rossiya Segodnya (owner before 9 Dec 2013: All-Russia State Television and Radio Company) |
| History | |
| Launch date | 22 December 1993; 31 years ago (1993-12-22) |
| Closed | 9 November 2014; 11 years ago (2014-11-09) |
| Replaced by | Sputnik |
Former names | Radio Moscow |
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| Availability | International |
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| Website | rus |
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Voice of Russia (Russian:Голос России,romanized: Golos Rossii), commonly abbreviatedVOR, was theRussian government's internationalradio broadcasting service from 1993 until 2014, when it was reorganised asRadio Sputnik.[1] Itsinterval signal was a chime version of 'Majestic' chorus from theGreat Gate of Kiev portion ofPictures at an Exhibition byMussorgsky.
Russian presidentBoris Yeltsin issued a decree on 22 December 1993 which reorganisedRadio Moscow under a new name: Voice of Russia.[2]
On 9 December 2013, Russian presidentVladimir Putin issued a presidential decree dissolving the Voice of Russia as an agency, and merging it withRIA Novosti to form theRossiya Segodnya internationalnews agency.[3]
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of theRossiya 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."[4] The Voice of Russia ceasedshortwave andEuropeanmediumwave radio broadcasts on 1 April 2014.[5] The service continued to be available worldwide via theinternet, in selected regions onsatellite, and in several cities onFM,AM (inNorth America) or localdigital radio.
By 2013, the Voice of Russia had been broadcasting in 38 languages, including:[6]
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