 Voice
of Russia launches new website
A report to Glenn
Hauser’s DX Listening Digest from Segei S notes that the Voice
of Russia has unveiled its new official website: www.ruvr.ru.
Sergei says it’s unclear what the abbreviation RUVR stands for.
Apparently the organisation has a new name, as the logo indicates. The
old site www.vor.ru is
still operational.
However, he says, it’s safe to assume that the old address will
eventually disappear, due to its unpleasant sound to a Russian ear. In
most Slavic languages, the word “vor” means “thief.”
At first glance, the new site appears to be much more logically designed,
and has the potential to be much more useful for checking programme information.
But we were surprised to click on “What’s New” for
the English service, to find a single item about ‘The Christian
Message from Moscow’ which is ‘on air as of August 28th’.
The text refers to “the next three editions of the program”
but neglects to mention the dates, so it’s not clear if this is
old information or current information.
Then, if you select About Us, you see a short message from the Editor-in-Chief
of the World Service in English, but the links underneath to ‘Our
Narrators’ and ‘Editorial Staff’ go to pages in Russian,
not English. So it appears that this new site is still a ‘work in
progress’
Source: Media Network
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