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US radio mouthpiece to launch programs for Akbkhazia, S Ossetia.
WASHINGTON, October 7 (Itar-Tass) - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(RFE/RL), a broadcasting organization sponsored by the U.S.
Administration, plans launching programs for the Republic of Abkhazia and
the Republic of South Ossetia, Martins Zvaners, the associate director for
communications of the Prague-based station told Itar-Tass in Washington.
A 60-minutes-long daily program targeted at the two former regions of
Georgia is due to go on the air as of November 2. It will be co-produced
by the Russian and Georgian boards of the station in Prague.
According to Zvaners, RFE/RL plans to attract reporters from Abkhazia,
South Ossetia, Georgia, and Russia to providing stories for the broadcasts.
Earlier, an Internet portal in Prague said RFE/RL staff member Andrei
Babitsky, who has made his name notorious in the past by interviewing the
terrorist Shamil Basayev, will coordinate the new program.
Zvaners confirmed on his part that Babitsky has a position in this
program but it is an open question yet whether he will chair the whole
project.
Zvaners also claimed that the broadcasts for Abkhazia and South
Ossetia will have a classical format consisting of newscasts with account
of the listeners' interests.
The objective of this programming is reconciliation and the bridging
of different viewpoints expressed by the parties to the processes that are
unfolding in the region, the executive claimed.
Doubts over the latter postulation arise, however, from the fact that
the stance of the U.S. Administration of the problems of Abkhazia and
South Ossetia remains one-sided and prejudiced.
The new project per se testifies to the validity of apprehensions
about its nature.
Following the end of the Cold War and the loss of the previous
ideological platform of their existence, U.S. propaganda mouthpieces have
been waging a fight for survival, which means the preserving of budget
allocations.
This prompts RFE/RL and other "radio voices" to seek out hotbeds of
tensions in the post-Soviet space where the White House might need the
application of their efforts.
The slogan waved in these situations suggests that the target
audiences in "strained" areas thus get information free from censorship
although, quite naturally, all the reporting reflects the U.S. position to
a big degree.
(RFE/RL), a broadcasting organization sponsored by the U.S.
Administration, plans launching programs for the Republic of Abkhazia and
the Republic of South Ossetia, Martins Zvaners, the associate director for
communications of the Prague-based station told Itar-Tass in Washington.
A 60-minutes-long daily program targeted at the two former regions of
Georgia is due to go on the air as of November 2. It will be co-produced
by the Russian and Georgian boards of the station in Prague.
According to Zvaners, RFE/RL plans to attract reporters from Abkhazia,
South Ossetia, Georgia, and Russia to providing stories for the broadcasts.
Earlier, an Internet portal in Prague said RFE/RL staff member Andrei
Babitsky, who has made his name notorious in the past by interviewing the
terrorist Shamil Basayev, will coordinate the new program.
Zvaners confirmed on his part that Babitsky has a position in this
program but it is an open question yet whether he will chair the whole
project.
Zvaners also claimed that the broadcasts for Abkhazia and South
Ossetia will have a classical format consisting of newscasts with account
of the listeners' interests.
The objective of this programming is reconciliation and the bridging
of different viewpoints expressed by the parties to the processes that are
unfolding in the region, the executive claimed.
Doubts over the latter postulation arise, however, from the fact that
the stance of the U.S. Administration of the problems of Abkhazia and
South Ossetia remains one-sided and prejudiced.
The new project per se testifies to the validity of apprehensions
about its nature.
Following the end of the Cold War and the loss of the previous
ideological platform of their existence, U.S. propaganda mouthpieces have
been waging a fight for survival, which means the preserving of budget
allocations.
This prompts RFE/RL and other "radio voices" to seek out hotbeds of
tensions in the post-Soviet space where the White House might need the
application of their efforts.
The slogan waved in these situations suggests that the target
audiences in "strained" areas thus get information free from censorship
although, quite naturally, all the reporting reflects the U.S. position to
a big degree.
