Elisabeth Robson

E.M.R. studied Russian at Oxford, receiving M.A. and D.Phil degrees. A studentship to Leningrad as a post-graduate gave a first experience of the power and importance of international broadcasting - during the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact in 1968. Started working for the BBC World Service in the Russian Service in 1969, and worked for World Service twice more, most recently from 1990-2004. In 1992 I set up and headed the new Ukrainian Service, in 1999 became head of Central Asia and Caucasus Service, 2001 to retirement head of the Russian Service.

BBC’s Russian service: worth doing properly

This debate has been posed in terms of either/or solutions, since it was triggered by the decision to close the Russian Features Department and make several people redundant. In

By Elisabeth Robson

/ 25 Mar 2009