Voice of Russia

Voice of Russia
Type	Radio network
Country	Russia
Ownership
Owner	Rossiya Segodnya; (owner before 9 Dec 2013:; All-Russia State Television and Radio Company)
History
Launch date	22 December 1993
Closed	9 November 2014
Replaced by	Sputnik
Former names	Radio Moscow
Coverage
Availability	International
Links
Website	rus.ruvr.ru (inactive)

Voice of Russia (Russian: Голос России, romanized: Golos Rossii), commonly abbreviated VOR, was the Russian government's international radio broadcasting service from 1993 until 2014, when it was reorganised as Radio Sputnik.^[1] Its interval signal was a chime version of 'Majestic' chorus from the Great Gate of Kiev portion of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.

^ "The Voice of Russia becomes Sputnik". uk.SputnikNews.com. The Voice of Russia. 10 November 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 18 November 2014.