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The following is from the IFEX Communique #5.15



RUSSIA: INDEPENDENT RADIO ASSOCIATION BEING ORGANIZED

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has joined with Radio
Pulse in Podolsk to organize a Russian association of independent
radio broadcasters, reports "Media Developments" (No. 13, April
1996), the bulletin of the United States Information Agency
(USIA) Media Assistance Clearinghouse. The new organization is to
be called the Association of Local Non-Governmental Radio
Stations. It is organized in part by the section of the BBC
called the "Marshall Plan of the Mind" (BBC MPM), which produces
Russian-language radio and television programmes for broadcast by
Russian stations. "The idea of an association was born on our
boat trip last year," said MPM's Moscow director, Simone Lees,
adding, "The Radio broadcasters got together and felt they have
some common problems and that it would be a good idea to get
together and talk about them." An organizational meeting is
tentatively scheduled for September in Podolsk. For more
information, or for radio stations interested in participating,
contact the BBC MPM at PO Box 48, Moscow 103050, CIS; tel:+7095
956-3113/3114; fax: + 7095 956-3115; e-mail: bbcmpm@glas.apc.org.


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Bruce Girard
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