Russian Canadian Info

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Russian Canadian Info is the largest among numerous Canadian periodicals in Russian language.

Created in 1991 as a small home-based business built by the family of immigrants from Saint Petersburg (Russia) and having only 16 pages now it has around 56 pages of local, country and global information for Russian-speaking Canadians. It has the biggest circulation and the largest classified section among Russian speaking periodicals in Canada [1].

To provide all former citizen of former USSR with the news and advertisement Russian Canadian Info has a special arrangements with Canada Post and so the newspaper is sent to subscribers throughout Canada and as far as British Columbia. Some of Russian Canadian Info readers receiving the current newspapers even in USA.

Began by former prominent Russian musician Boris Nusenbaum (known for his piano accompaniments to the bard author and singer Alexander Rozenbaum) Russian Canadian Info remains as a privately owned business. Couple of years ago another edition had been added - and yet, another weekly "informer" named Gazeta Plus. Both newspapers are run by their editor Eugene Koutcher and designer Maryana Shor with the substantial help from other members of organization.

In 2003 media group named now Russian InfoTrade added one more newspaper: by-weekly Russian Canadian Info Montreal Edition. In 2004 Mr. Nusenbaum had decided to launch the radio project Radio Plus and has invited three anchormen: a jazz-singer and short stories writer Alla Kadysh, a radio DJ from Kazakhstan Eugene Bychkov and a musician from Bolshoi Theatre Vladimir Kanevski. The radio presently broadcast onthe regular basis every business weekday from 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST (1430 AM) and as well as the Internet site www.radioplus.ca [2].

Recently the Russian Canadian Info project received the support from a popular Russian website www.russians.ca [3].