Radio Station Belarus

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Radio Station "Belarus"

Type	Radio network
Country	Belarus
Availability	International
Owner	Belarusian Radio
Key people	Naum Galperovich (Director), Viacheslav Laktjushin (Head of Dept. of Foreign Languages Service)
Launch date	May 11, 1962
Website	http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/eng/

The Radio Station "Belarus" (Belarusian: Радыёстанцыя "Беларусь") is the is the official international broadcasting station of Belarus.

Since May 11, 1962, the call sign of the radio station "Belarus" has been in the short waves on international air. Originally the programs were broadcast in Belarusian. In 1985, broadcasting in German was launched, and in 1998 followed its Russian and English versions.

At the moment the daily broadcast timetable of our station includes 5 hours of radio air and 10 hours of Internet air.

Radio "Belarus" features:

news and information-analytical shows;
radio meetings with statesmen, politicians, public and religious figures; scientists, *writers and musicians, masters of art and folklore; sportsmen;
programs about history, culture, spiritual values of Belarusians.

Showing different aspects of state life, it also pay much attention to ordinary Belarusian families with their joys and worries.

Priority in music policy is popularization of the best examples of folk, classical and modern Belarusian music.

Radio station is developing dynamically, it is fit out with modern equipment, his groups combine youthfulness and experience, what help to generate new creative projects and to make them come true.

Radio Belarus daily transmissions are on air from 19 till 22 hours UTC on the frequencies of 1170, 7105, 7280 and 7290 kHz, and from 1 till 3 hours UTC on the frequencies of 5970, 6170 and 7210 kHz.

Radio station "Belarus" started on-line Internet broadcast in English language on January 3, 2005.

On September 1, 2005 the radio increased the air time from 5 to 10 hours, including two 5-hour blocks.

The radio station is a source of objective^{[dubious — see talk page]} and full information about Belarus on air and in the Internet.