Text of report in English by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS

Moscow, 28 December: [The] medium wave broadcast of the Voice of Russia has
been partially jammed by a local station in Kiev since the first half of
December, a source in the Voice of Russia told ITAR-TASS on Tuesday [28
December].

The source said that the jamming signal was not authorized by the
International Electric Communication Union [presumably the International
Telecommunication Union] or the international plan of medium and long wave
broadcasts.

The Voice of Russia has been broadcasting live programmes to the CIS and
Baltic countries for 15 hours a day since spring 2004. It is using 999 kHz
frequency in broadcasts to Kiev via a Grigoriopol transmitter with the
capacity of 1,000 kW.

(Source: ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow, in English 28 Dec 04 via BBC
Monitoring)