Polish Radio Station To Broadcast Into Belarus

[Judi Lynn]

Polish Radio Station To Broadcast Into Belarus


(RFE/RL)
22 February 2006 -- The Polish government is funding an independent radio station aimed at promoting democracy and freedom of speech in Belarus.


Radio Racja (Radio Reason) is set to hit the air before Belarus’s 19 March presidential election. The station is being set up in the northeastern Polish city of Bialystok.

Officials say some of Radio Racja's programs will be broadcast on FM via a local radio station in Vilnius to regions in Belarus bordering Lithuania.
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http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/02/3a484827-cf37-4dc0-bcba-b460480964c5.html



How much you wanna bet that bright idea was hatched by the _Bush administration?

[Igel]

1. Maybe. But don't count out local politics.

There's a reasonably large Polish minority in the western part of the country, and Lukashenko's put them under a bit o' pressure.

The Polish government has no love for Lukashenko (and few people do, to be quite honest), and Lukashenko dislikes the Poles.

[Judi Lynn]

2. I'm looking forward to the day someone might set up a facility to

beam anti-Fox messages into Mexico. It might just assist Andres Manuel López Obrador in the upcoming election.

[formercia]

3. Fearless Leader wanted to call it Radio "Free Belarus"

too obvious....