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I suggest moving this to Radio Moscow, since that is the name used in the article Fornadan 19:11, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

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Radio Moscow had a sister shortwave station called Radio Station Peace and Progress: The Voice of Soviet Public Opinion. There should possibly be an article about that too. Lee M 14:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

IIRC, Peace and Progress went on the air in the mid 80's, before Gorbachev took over and I remember on the couple of occasions I listened to it it's programmes were pretty dull. This was not the only extra English-language programme, there were also broadcasts aimed at North America and at the British Isles and (I think) Africa. These only operated for short periods of the day whereas the World Service was 24 hours a day on dozens of frequencies. Any World Radio TV Handbook for the late 80s should have details of all these services (if I knew Wikipedia would come along 15 years later I'd have kept mine)... Rugxulo 15:43, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I *did* keep mine. GABaker 1803, 23 December 2005.

Peace and Progress broadcast mainly in English and various Chinese dialects. Radio Moscow English programmes appeared to be for the purpose of explaining the Soviet world view to those who were not (yet??) Communists while Peace and Progress was an exercise in preching to the converted !

Radio Moscow programming could be interesting at times but "Peace and Progress" was as you say interminably dull matched only by Radio Tirana A favorite topic seemed to be the USSR statistics for increaces in tractor production !

According to the respected VPRO history radio programme OVT, from 1929-1994 a Dutch language service functioned. They made a two-part documentary about it, interviewing the Dutch presentors. It can be listened to on-line. http://geschiedenis.vpro.nl/programmas/3299530/afleveringen/3364957/items/6512245/

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"Moscow Nights" has never been an interval signal of Radio Moscow. They used "Shiroka strana moya rodnaya" ("My country's vast"). "Moscow nights" tune had sometimes been used at the close of English programmes, but never as an official interval signal. "Moscow Nights" is in fact interval signal for Radio Mayak - another soviet era Radio, which nonetheless never broadcasted in foreign languages. Here's the link to Radio Moscow's original interval signal: Media:http://www.swldxer.co.uk/moscow-is.wma - taken from this page [1] Luitje (talk) 13:48, 16 January 2008 (UTC)luitje

RADIO MOSCOW ALSO DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMING ON TAPE

I work in a Public radio and television station, and remember receiving letters in the 1980's from Radio Moscow offering to send us recordings of various programs they had produced. The offerings included dramatizations of Classic Russian and Soviet literature, music, and some "documentary" programs on various subjects such as the Second World War, or as it is known in Russia, "The Great Patriotic War."

The recordings were offered for free, and the only condition was that they should be returned to Radio Moscow with an attached label stating whether the tape had been used, not used, or partially used, and the date. The reel-to-reel tapes were already starting to look rather out of date, as almost everything we did was recorded on cassette, and the CD was just starting to come into use.

When attempting to return the tapes, we hit the first obstacle that was so typical of how the Soviet Union operated. Audio tapes were on the "forbidden" list of things sent into the Soviet Union, and the tapes were seized by Soviet Customs despite the fact that they were obviously the property of Radio Moscow. Eventually they told us to mark the packages "ADDRESSEE HAS OFFICIAL PERMISSION TO RECEIVE TAPES."

We ended up not using many of the offerings, and the response from our listeners was almost nil.

RogerInPDXRogerInPDX (talk) 05:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC) RogerInPDX