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The BBC's first Russian-language broadcast was a translation of a speech by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on 23 June 1941. [1] The first programme of the Russian section of the BBC was hosted by Sonya (Betty) Horsfall on 24 March 1946. [1] However, during World War II there were sporadic broadcasts to the Soviet Union in Russian only ...
From 2006 to 2010, Rosenberg served as the BBC's Berlin correspondent, covering Germany and Europe. He returned to Moscow as a correspondent in 2010. [7] [8] In 2014, Rosenberg and his crew were attacked in Astrakhan after interviewing the sister of a Russian soldier killed during the war in Donbas. The BBC lodged a complaint with Russian ...
The ships arrival coincides with reports in Syrian media that Russia's lease for the port has been cancelled. The new transitional government in Damascus refused to confirm the reports to the BBC ...
British Defense Secretary John Healey told Parliament on Wednesday the Royal Navy was tracking a "Russian spy ship" that passed through U.K. waters, warning Russia's President Vladimir Putin: "We ...
Goldberg was broadcasting to the Soviet Union at a time when the tone and purpose of the broadcasts were disputed within the BBC. [4] John Tusa, former head of the BBC World Service, wrote of Goldberg's position: "great men such as the Russian Service commentator Anatol Goldberg... insisted that it was insulting to tell the Soviet audience how lousy life was; they knew that better than you did.
The BBC is temporarily suspending journalism work in Russia after the country passed a draconian censorship law on Friday that would directly impact journalists in the country. The Duma, Russia ...
In the 1990s, the BBC purchased and constructed large medium wave and FM networks in the former Soviet bloc, particularly the Czech (BBC Czech Section), Slovak Republics (BBC Slovak Section), Poland (BBC Polish Section) (where it was a national network) and Russia (BBC Russian Service). It had built up a strong audience during the Cold War ...
MBE [1] Seva Novgorodsev (Russian: Се́ва Новгоро́дцев), pseudonym of Vsevolod Borisovich Levenstein (Всеволод Борисович Левенштейн); born 9 July 1940), is a former radio presenter on the BBC Russian Service. He is famous throughout the former Soviet Union, being widely considered as Russia's first ...