Meeting the challenges in Russia

Russia covers more area than any other country in the world.

Trans World Radio is finding new ways to broadcast into Russia, after two national radio networks removed its programs from their transmission schedule at the end of 2007 - TWR had been reaching 11 time zones through those channels since 1991.

Former listeners have mourned the loss of TWR’s broadcasts, describing them as “healing, clean, living water.”

Since losing this critical means of spreading the gospel, TWR has begun airing live over the Internet and plans to increase the coverage and airtime of a transmitter in Estonia. Recent statistics demonstrate that 28.7 million Russians or about 25% of the Russian population now uses the Internet, including 695,000 residents of Moscow.

TWR also has a transmitter in Grigoriopol that covers four time zones, and six radio stations in Siberia broadcast TWR programs. The Grigoriopol transmitter broadcasts in Ukrainian and Russian for 90 minutes every day and reaches about 50-60% of the Russian population.

TWR programs in Siberia reach the homes of about a million people in six cities. TWR provides literature for listeners who respond to broadcasts and connects them with local churches. One listener responded to a broadcast teaching that the witchcraft she practiced is wrong.