Letter in Daily Telegraph 23 December 2008
This is the latest in a series of letters concerning the future of the BBC's Russian service (cf openDemocracy Russia 9
What was the real reason behind yesterday's raid by armed police on the St.Petersburg headquarters of the human rights organisation Memorial? Below, we publish a statement from
On 25 November the Director of the BBC World Service Nigel Chapman submitted his resignation. Discussion has raged during recent weeks over changes proposed by the World Service to the
From Dr.John Dunn, 10 November
More detail on the impending changes to the BBC's Russian service,
including a list of the programmes due to close and a
From the editors of openDemocracy Russia:
The BBC World Service argues that it has lost 40% of its Russian listeners in recent years, although the budget for its Russian service
