has learned the Voice of America (VOA) management informed some of its staff and its few remaining broadcasting partners in Russia that U.S. Government-funded VOA’s Russian-language radio and television programs will be terminated as of July 26. In an apparent effort to limit public awareness of this move and the expected negative publicity at the time of increasing media censorship and silencing of independent journalists in Russia, neither the Voice of America nor the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a bipartisan body which oversees VOA, has posted an official announcement on their websites about the termination of VOA Russian-language broadcasts. According to VOA sources contacted by FreeMediaOnline.org, after the elimination of radio and TV broadcasts, VOA Russian-language content will be presented only on the VOA...
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