Posted on 01/11/2005 1:35:20 PM PST by Red Badger
The Belarus Ministry of Information has ordered the amount of foreign music broadcast by Belarus radio stations to be reduced, Russia’s NTV television reported. From now on, only two out of every 10 songs played on Belarus radio can be foreign.
The country’s Information Minister Uladzimir Rusakevich has said that while everyone in Belarus would have an opportunity to listen to what they like; people must not be denied the opportunity to listen to Belarusian music.
The minister also said that under the new conditions Belarus stations could come into tough competition with foreign ones. “They will try to jam and suppress us. Not because we are broadcasting Belarusian material, but because we have different political goals,” the official said.
The Russian newspaper Gazeta has linked the move of the Information Ministry with a suggestion voiced by the Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko at a festival in Vitebsk late last year.
“In the evening when all our people are driving their cars and listening to the radio, the stations must broadcast our product, from our people,” the president said.
I assume the Hitler mustache is no accident.
If you go to the source, read the article about what he said about French models on Belarussian billboards.....This guy's a hoot.....
If the "music" is like some of that modern garbage I hear in the parking lot of the grocery store ans shopping center near my home in South Florida... I SAY: " GO FOR IT GUY.. STOP IT ALL!!
Luka is such an isolationist. "My people don't need foreign music or fashion...or paychecks...or honest news...they have wonderful me!"
Sounds like a bit of name adjusting is in order. How does Lukash**head sound?
Well considering the vast amount of (c)rap music that probably gets played over there, maybe Lukashenko has a point.
I occasionally listen to Polish radio stations over the net (good way to learn the language). Believe me, they mostly play American rap. The artists from Poland I listen to blow away most of the stuff I hear on American radio. Some of the best musicians in the world are from there. Of course, you'll never hear about them here in the states.
We need to install radio and TV station „free Belarus” in Poland. They don’t have there any creditable source of information. Luka is silly like always, nothing new…
With apologies to Suzanne Vega:
My name is Luka, I live in Belarus
I live next door to you, Yes I think you've seen me before
If you hear something late at night, Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was....
Don't miss that one, next great idea of Luka
So would he consider those Russian pseudo-lesbo TaTu chicks as "foreign"?
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