that this article be merged with radio moscow . discuss proposed since august 2016 . the voice of russia type radio network country russia availability international owner rossiya segodnya owner before 9 dec 2013 all russia state television and radio company launch date 22 december 1993 dissolved 9 november 2014 former names radio moscow official website http rus.ruvr.ru inactive replaced by sputnik the voice of russia russian tr . golos rossii was the russian government s international radio broadcasting service from 1993 until 2014 when it was reorganized as radio sputnik . 1 its interval signal was a chime version of majestic chorus from the great gate of kiev portion of pictures at an exhibition by mussorgsky . contents 1 history 2 former transmission network 3 broadcast languages 4 see also 5 references history edit on 22 december 1993 russian president boris yeltsin issued a decree which reorganized radio moscow with a new name the voice of russia . 2 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 . 3 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 . 4 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 . 5 voice of russia ceased shortwave and european mediumwave broadcasting effective 1 april 2014 . 6 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 . 7 former transmission network edit antenna of voice of russia in wachenbrunn germany 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 edit in 2013 the voice of russia had broadcast in 38 languages including 8 albanian armenian arabic azerbaijani bengali bulgarian chinese crimean tatar czech dari english french german hausa hindi hungarian italian japanese kurdish kyrgyz moldovan mongolian norwegian pashto persian polish portuguese russian serbian spanish turkish ukrainian urdu uzbek see also edit russia portal radio portal external program hours comparison with some other external radio broadcasters wnsw in newark new jersey simulcast an english language version of the voice of russia until 2014 . references edit voice of russia becomes sputnik . voice of russia . 10 november 2014 . retrieved 18 november 2014 . boris yeltsin s decree in russian language president vladimir putin issues decree to reorganize voice of russia ria novosti to rossia segodnya news wire . voice of russia . december 9 2013 . retrieved december 9 2013 . voice of russia radio stops shortwave service . ria novosti . august 21 2013 . retrieved august 21 2013 . russia today s english newswire to be launched in april . voice of russia . 23 april 2014 . retrieved 23 april 2014 . http swling.com blog 2014 03 voice of russia to abandon shortwave on april 1 2014 voice of russia becomes sputnik . voice of russia . 10 november 2014 . retrieved 18 november 2014 . about us . http voiceofrussia.com . the voice of russia . retrieved 28 november 2013 . external link in website help v t e members of the world radio network akashvani all india radio banns radio international channel africa china radio international democracy now deutsche welle international radio serbia 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