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

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