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The Saeima Human Rights and Public Affairs Committee is currently discussing the funding of Latvian Radio 4 as well as the LSM news portals in English and Russian.For the past few years, €191,000 a year was spent on Latvian Radio 4 and Latvian Radio content for minorities, as well as €121,000 on the LSM portals in English and Russian, LSM's English news reported on Wednesday.In the past, this money came from a special fund that wasn't part of Latvia's basic public media budget. But starting this year, money is allocated out of LSM's overall budget, the assumption being that there would be sufficient means in the budget to maintain the minority and English-language service.Director of LSM.lv, Voldemārs Oliņš, confirmed that the editorial offices in question are currently funded out of the resources of Latvian public television LTV."Up until now, unofficial information from the ministries has led us to think that funding will be continued, and therefore no … [Read more...] about Russian, English news in Latvia under threat, ‘Russia Today next in line’

MINSK, 6 November (BelTA) – The Belarusian Telegraph Agency would like to inform subscribers and website visitors that the English news service will be resumed on 8 November due to nationwide celebrations of October Revolution Day on 7 November.If nothing changes, the English website will not be updated on 7 November. We would like to thank everyone for your understanding.More about Society … [Read more...] about BelTA to resume English news service on 8 November

THE Olive Press is rapidly zooming up the rankings. Our unique, original and in-depth reporting of life and news in Spain has sent us into the stratosphere. After a month where we had nearly 1 million hits and over 600,000 visitors, we have shot into the top 10,000 most popular websites in Spain. According to Amazon’s Alexa.com, the site is ranked at an incredible 9,079th place out of more than 2 million websites in Spain. Alexa, which ranks the most visited websites globally by analysing traffic statistics, also puts us clearly above all other online media publications online in English. We have leapfrogged all our rivals such as Euro Weekly News (12,098), The Local (12,205) and Sur in English (24,857). And we’re not just talking about news websites, but every single website that exists – social media, search engines, businesses – you name it, Alexa has ranked it. What’s more, we have been ranked number 212,874 globally – an impressive feat given … [Read more...] about STOP PRESS: Olive Press now officially number one English news website in Spain

MINSK, 22 December (BelTA) – The Belarusian Telegraph Agency would like to inform subscribers and website visitors that the English news service will be resumed on 26 December after the holidays. If nothing changes, the English website will not be updated from 23 December through 25 December. We would like to thank everyone for your understanding. Merry Christmas!More about Society … [Read more...] about BelTA to resume English news service on 26 December

MINSK, 30 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian Telegraph Agency would like to inform subscribers and website visitors that the English news service will be resumed on 2 May after the Labor Day celebration on 1 May. If nothing changes, the English website will not be updated on 1 May. We would like to thank everyone for your understanding.More about Society … [Read more...] about BelTA to resume English news service on 2 May