The agency was established in 1989 by officials from the international service, Moscow Radio.

"Any unconsidered nationalistic or religious appeals would be dangerous," the Moscow radio said.

During the recent earthquake in Armenia, for example, Moscow radio provided extensive news coverage.

It was a friend from Moscow radio.

The Moscow radio said 400 Meshketians, most of them children, had been flown out of the republic.

Interfax, a news service of Moscow radio, said on Tuesday that 20 people had died and at least 108 had been injured in the clashes.

He then became musical director of the Moscow Radio and Philharmonic Orchestra (1931-37).

Later, the Moscow radio made the first recent public reference to the late author as a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

But a student with generally moderate views said this week that when he "wanted the truth," he turned to Moscow radio or the Iranian national network.

Vuslin married Marina Yelyanova, a music editor at the Moscow Radio.