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Moscow's English- residents and language learners will have something new to to on November 12. The city is a brand new radio station in English to to expats, tourists and local residents. The new station, to be Moscow FM, is being set up by Moscow's city hall. It is part of an ongoing initiative to make the city easier to live in for non-Russians. The radio channel hot on the heels of street signs in English, which for the first time several months ago. Moscow's Deputy Mayor Andrei Sharonov told the "Moscow Times" newspaper that the next stage of the city's project would be to tuition to the city's police officers to study English.

Moscow FM will have a strong focus on news – both national and international. The "Moscow Times" that: "The news content will be by the state- English language TV channel Russia Today and will make up 20-30 per cent of the airtime." A spokesman for the new station it would be, "a fundamentally new urban radio". It is sure to be a hit with tens of thousands of Moscow's foreign residents as well as the five million tourists who through Russia's capital every year. It should also popular with Russians English in Moscow. Language student Oksana Ivashin said she would be in regularly to the station, "for a Russian perspective on English news".