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

Moscow FM will have a strong on news – both national and international. The "Moscow Times" reported that: "The news content will be produced by the state- English language TV channel Russia Today and will make up 20-30 per cent of the ." A spokesman for the new station it would be, "a fundamentally new radio". It is 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 learning English in Moscow. Language student Oksana Ivashin said she would be in regularly to the station, "for a Russian on English news".