Echo of Moscow

Echo of Moscow
Broadcast area	Russia; Chicago; Bishkek
First air date	22 August 1990
Owner	Gazprom Media
Website	http://echo.msk.ru

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Alexey Venediktov (right), editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow

Sergey Korzun, co-founder and 1st editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow

Sergey Buntman (right), co-founder of Echo of Moscow

Yuri Fedutinov, General Director of Echo of Moscow

Echo of Moscow (Russian: Э́хо Москвы́, Ekho Moskvy) is a Russian radio station based in Moscow, broadcasting in many Russian cities, in some of the former-Soviet republics (through partnerships with local radio stations), and via the Internet, which some observers describe as "the last bastion of free media in Russia".^[1] Most of the content consists of news and talk shows focusing on social and political issues and the station tries to represent different points of view. The current senior editor is Alexey Venediktov.

[edit] Shareholders structure

Gazprom Media 66%
Journalist staff 34%

(Information correct as of 2005.)

[edit] Frequencies

Abakan - 71.06, 104.2 FM
Barnaul - 69.11 FM
Chelyabinsk - 70.70, 99.5 FM
Chicago - 1330 AM
Ekaterinburg - 67.46, 91.4 FM
Zelenogorsk - 71.06 FM
Izhevsk - 105.3 FM
Irkutsk - 69.5 FM
Kazan - 105.8 FM
Krasnoyarsk - 106.6 FM
Makhachkala - 105.2 FM
Mirny - 102,4
Moscow - 91.2 FM
Nizhnevartovsk - 107.0 FM
Nizhny Novgorod - 107.4 FM
Orenburg - 101.3 FM
Omsk - 70.55, 105.0 FM
Perm - 91.2 FM
Rostov-na-Donu - 69.44 FM
Samara - 99.1 FM
Saint Petersburg - 91.5 FM
Saratov, Engels - 105.8 FM
Tolyatti - 107.9 FM
Tomsk - 105.0 FM
Tumen - 72.44 FM
Tver - 107,2 FM
Ufa - 91.1 FM
Ukhta - 105.0 FM
Yaroslavl - 106.5 FM
Vladikavkaz, Beslan - 102.8 FM
Vologda - 105.7 FM

[edit] Critics and controversy

Numerous chief editor replies point out that Gazprom and/or other stock-holders did not interfere with informational policy and were not allowed to.^[2]^[3]