Norwegian-Russian local radio cooperation

The new cooperation agreement will hopefully lead to more local news from the Barents region being broadcasted across the border.

The cooperation agreement was signed in the Norwegian town of Vardø during the Pomor Days festival last week, Bolshoye Radio’s web site reads. Russia’s General Consul to Norway in Kirkenes Igor Bulay, Head of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat Rune Rafaelsen and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Torvald Stoltenberg were present at the event. The project has been cofinanced by the Norwegian Barents Secretariat.

Radio Domen is based in Vardø and has license to broadcast to Kirkenes. Bolshoye Radio sends news and popular music for an adult audience from its studio in Murmansk. The new cooperation agreement with Radio Domen will hopefully lead to more local news from the Barents region being broadcasted across the border.

Bolshoye Radio can be received on FM103.6 in the Norwegian-Russian border area Kirkenes-Pechenga an also in the Norwegian towns of Vadsø and Vardø. In Murmansk and other towns in the Northwestern part of Murmansk Oblast the station can be received on FM106.9.