Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Finnish television began to speak in Russian - INOTV

From today the Finnish public broadcasting has launched a legal bulletin in Russian.

A five-minute news block will be aired every day. Priority edition – stories about the life of Russian immigrants in Finland.

Moreover, a significant part of a short news release will be devoted to relations between Finland and Russia.

« main objective – to provide a reliable Russian-speaking inhabitants of Finland, information available in Russian on Finnish society, politics, culture, economy. That is, to eliminate certain information gap that may exist due to insufficient knowledge of the Finnish language », – said the news anchor YLE Finnish Broadcasting Levan Tvaltvadze.

Russian in Finland – the third-largest community in the country after Finns and Swedes. Residents, for whom Russian native, in the country more than 50,000.

« Our main audience – the local Russian-speaking residents, but we can not exclude that our news will be watching and abroad. Preliminary studies indicate that the majority of Russian-speaking population of Finland is guided by the Russian media, so I guess we’ll have to compete with them is », – said the news anchor YLE Finnish Broadcasting Love Shalygina.

Russian edition has been part of the news service of the Finnish Broadcasting since 1990.

Until now, the staff involved in the release of news on the radio and on the Internet.

« idea germinated several years. And the process can not be called easy. Radio broadcast and television time – it’s two different worlds. And had to spend intensive training. And so we come to today. Let us hope that the project will be successful », – said Levan Tvaltvadze.

Finnish television news broadcasting extends also in English. It is planned that in the future 5-minute English-language news release News in English will be published every day at a more convenient time for viewers.

air date May 13, 2013.

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