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Russian News Network Launches English-Language Radio Station In Sochi

Russia’s state-run English-language TV network, Russia Today, "is launching an English radio station in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, which is to host the 2014 Winter Olympics," according to Vladimir Kozlov of the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. The new FM station, Sochi Today, "is to broadcast in the winter Olympics host city and in Krasnaya Polyana, a nearby village, where some of the Olympic venues are located." Russia Today Editor-In-Chief Margarita Simonyan said, "Thanks to Sochi Today, millions of the Olympics' foreign guests will be able to follow the most important and interesting events both in the Olympic Sochi and all over the world." The station "expects to primarily target foreign athletes, sport officials, fans and journalists" (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 11/22).

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