Soviets Broadcast Voice of America
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WASHINGTON — A new “free” Soviet radio station in Volgograd--the former Stalingrad--is broadcasting Voice of America programming with transmitters once used to jam VOA and other foreign broadcasts, the U.S. agency reported Thursday.
Deputy Director Robert Coonrod of the VOA said that Anatoli Yermakov, director of Station VEDO in Volgograd, put the new commercial station on the air May 20 and by next week plans to offer regular Voice of America programming. With the opening of independent stations throughout the Soviet Union as a result of the central government’s relinquishing its monopoly over communications, Coonrod said that several have started using VOA broadcasts, ranging from Moscow to Novosibirsk.
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