{"id":8131,"date":"2013-12-04T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T13:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2013-12-04T09:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T13:45:57","slug":"n-news-agency-voice-of-russia-shortwave-service-to-close-jan-1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/n-news-agency-voice-of-russia-shortwave-service-to-close-jan-1-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"N News Agency: Voice of Russia shortwave service to close by Jan 1, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VoiceOfRussia\"<\/a>The Russian language N News Agency<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

“The Russian government\u2019s international radio broadcasting service Golos Rossii (Voice of Russia) will stop its shortwave broadcasts from January 1st next year.<\/p>\n

The shortwave service is closing due to funding cuts.\u00a0 Voice of Russia is to broadcast several programs in foreign languages including Mongolian language for the last time on December 29th, 2013.[…]”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the second time the closure of VOR<\/a> has been mentioned in the online press.<\/p>\n

To date, I have seen no official announcement\/confirmation from the Voice of Russia (though an earlier statement from VOR didn’t deny the possibility<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Many thanks to Andy Sennitt for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Russian language N News Agency reports: “The Russian government\u2019s international radio broadcasting service Golos Rossii (Voice of Russia) will stop its shortwave broadcasts from January 1st next year. The shortwave service is closing due to funding cuts.\u00a0 Voice of Russia is to broadcast several programs in foreign languages including Mongolian language for the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,43],"tags":[768,2093,408,2092,2094],"class_list":["post-8131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-moscow","tag-russia","tag-voice-of-russia","tag-voice-of-russia-cuts","tag-vor-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-279","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8219,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/putin-liquidates-the-voice-of-russia-absorbed-by-rossia-segodnya-newswire\/","url_meta":{"origin":8131,"position":0},"title":"Putin liquidates the Voice of Russia, absorbed by Rossia Segodnya newswire","author":"Thomas","date":"December 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like the Voice of Russia will be a part of an extensive reorganization within the network of Russian state-run news agencies. 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