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Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 15:00 CST Serbia: Church Radio Editor Defies Closure Order Text of report by "M.B.": "Not even Milosevic shut down church radio" by Serbian newspaper Glas javnosti on 4 March Belgrade - Archdeacon Ljubomir Rankovic, chief editor of Radio Glas Crkve [Voice of the Church], protests strongly against the decision of the State Telecommunications Agency to shut down the radio's Belgrade transmitter and says that they will continue to work and to broadcast programme as usual. Archdeacon Rankovic told us that the first Orthodox Christian radio in Serbia has been broadcasting for the past 10 years and that it must not be treated the same as the other, commercial radio stations. The editor said that Bishop Lavrentije has requested the State Telecommunications Agency and the State Broadcasting Agency not to shut down the radio's transmitter in Belgrade pending the amendment of the law on frequencies whereby the church should be able to have regional and national frequencies, as against the local frequency that is all that it is allowed to have at the moment. Radio Glas Crkve has four transmitters - in Belgrade and Valjevo and on Mts. Cer and Goc - but the order obligates them to shut down only the one in Belgrade. "We are continuing to work as usual with all four transmitters in operation and we are pointing out once again that this is the only church radio broadcasting in the south of Europe. We hope that the state will not be so hypocritical as to urge the protection of church property in Kosovo on the one hand, while shutting down a church radio transmitter on the other. We hope that this is just mischief-making on somebody's part behind the scenes and not state policy. To shut down a church radio in the era of electronic media would be worse than the burning of the relics of St Sava [Serbian medieval educator, whose remains were burned by Ottoman Turks in the 16th century] and would mean exiling the church to catacombs and graveyards," Archdeacon Rankovic said with indignation. He went on to say that Slobodan Milosevic had tried several times to take the radio off the air, but he always desisted and did not dare to do it. Rankovic added that to do so would be an unprecedented act of vandalism. (c) 2007 BBC Monitoring European. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved. Source: BBC Monitoring European +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
