Autoradio (105.1 Minsk FM) was the first independent

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

in the independent

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

. Autoradio was the first radio station in Belarus to broadcast after the

Dissolution of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...

. It was broadcast from

Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administra ...

on the frequency 105.1 MHz from 7 August 1992 to 12 January 2011.

History

From the early 90s until January 1, 1995, Autoradio operated on the frequency 67.7 OIRT FM. The station played Belarusian music, such as the bands N.R.M., Krambambula,

Lyapis Trubetskoy Lyapis Trubetskoy (, ) is a Belarusian rock band. It was named after the comical hero from Ilya Ilf's and Yevgeny Petrov (writer), Yevgeny Petrov's novel "The Twelve Chairs", poet and potboiler Nikifor Lyapis, who used the pseudonym Trubetskoy. O ...

, and Neuro Dubel. At 12:40 p.m. on 12 January 2011, Autoradio's transmitting license was revoked and the station was shut down. The Republican Commission on Television and Radio led by Oleg Proleskovsky revoked Autoradio's license after the station broadcast campaign advertisements from the candidates Andrej Sańnikaŭ and Uładzimier Niaklajeŭ, who were opposing

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making hi ...

during the

2010 Belarusian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 19 December 2010. The elections had originally been planned for the beginning of 2011. However, the final date was set during an extraordinary session of the National Assembly on 14 September 2010. ...

. The founder and editor-in-chief of Autoradio, Jury Bazan, died on September 24, 2016.

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