{"id":8397,"date":"2013-12-23T07:23:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T11:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8397"},"modified":"2013-12-23T07:23:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T11:23:40","slug":"voice-of-russia-to-remain-on-the-air-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/voice-of-russia-to-remain-on-the-air-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of Russia to remain on the air in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RIA Novosti Newsroom, Moscow (Source: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

This year has been a confusing one for Voice of Russia listeners. \u00a0At least two separate news sources–in August<\/a> and December<\/a>–announced that VOR would be leaving the shortwaves effective Jan 1, 2014, but\u00a0VOR couldn’t confirmed or denied the news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, only two weeks ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised us all by essentially liquidating the Voice of Russia and merging it with Rossia Segodnya newswire<\/a>\u00a0in sweeping changes affecting all Russian state media.<\/p>\n

I was curious if this move might have changed VOR’s outlook on the shortwaves, so I contacted VOR to see if they had any official word. I received the following response this morning:<\/p>\n

“We are glad to let you know that the Voice of Russia will stay on the air in 2014, however, considerable changes in our frequency schedule are expected. The information on the updated frequency chart will become available on the Voice of Russia\u2019s web site before the New Year at\u00a0http:\/\/voiceofrussia.com\/radio_broadcast\/frequencies\/<\/a>\u00a0, so please stay logged in.<\/p>\n

You may have already read about the planned merger of the VOR an RIA Novosti Press Agency in the upcoming year, for details please see the article at\u00a0http:\/\/voiceofrussia.com\/news\/2013_12_09\/President-Vladimir-Putin-issues-decree-to-reorgonize-Voice-of-Russia-RIA-Novosti-to-Rossia-Segodnya-news-wire-1689\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year has been a confusing one for Voice of Russia listeners. \u00a0At least two separate news sources–in August and December–announced that VOR would be leaving the shortwaves effective Jan 1, 2014, but\u00a0VOR couldn’t confirmed or denied the news. Then, only two weeks ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised us all by essentially liquidating the […]<\/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":[56,3,651,43,1167],"tags":[2400,408,2444,2092,2443,409,2094],"class_list":["post-8397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-rossia-segodnya-newswire","tag-voice-of-russia","tag-voice-of-russia-2014","tag-voice-of-russia-cuts","tag-voice-of-russia-on-the-air","tag-vor","tag-vor-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2br","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7088,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/voice-of-russia-to-cease-shortwave-radio-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":8397,"position":0},"title":"Voice of Russia to cease shortwave radio service","author":"Thomas","date":"August 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It appears the Voice of Russia will cease shortwave radio service on January 1st, 2014. 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A new schedule has been uploaded to HFCC from GFC for The Voice of Russia from 1st October including English to North America and Europe:\u00a0http:\/\/hfcc.org\/data\/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A14&fmor=GFC\" I thought, perhaps, these were schedules posted prior to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"HFCC-VOR-A14Sched-001","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HFCC-VOR-A14Sched-001.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HFCC-VOR-A14Sched-001.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HFCC-VOR-A14Sched-001.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9010,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/voice-of-russia-to-abandon-shortwave-on-april-1-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":8397,"position":2},"title":"Voice of Russia to abandon shortwave in April 2014","author":"Thomas","date":"March 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It appears that after all of the rumors from last year, and after the cuts to shortwave broadcasts earlier this year, the Voice of Russia has decided to stop broadcasting on shortwave entirely. This morning, Alokesh Gupta shared the following message from Elena Osipova at\u00a0the Voice of Russia World Service\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Voice-of-Russia-Logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Voice-of-Russia-Logo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8131,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/n-news-agency-voice-of-russia-shortwave-service-to-close-jan-1-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":8397,"position":3},"title":"N News Agency: Voice of Russia shortwave service to close by Jan 1, 2014","author":"Thomas","date":"December 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"VoiceOfRussia","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VoiceOfRussia-300x207.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9032,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/putin-wants-to-silence-voice-of-russia\/","url_meta":{"origin":8397,"position":4},"title":"Updated: “Putin wants to silence Voice of Russia”–?","author":"Thomas","date":"March 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: I seriously question this VOR twitter account's authenticity. @VORMoscow looks to be very new, starting on March 19, 2014--the same day VOR announced an end to its shortwave service--obviously not an official VOR account. 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