Echo of Moscow, a radio station closed in early March by Russia’s authorities, will be re-established as Echo, Maxim Kurnikov, the project’s leader, says.
The new media outlet will be home to all the content the station’s ex-presenters are creating.
“They are independent from each other, and we shall not dictate any specific policy. Our goal is to bring them together technically. I think we’re going to have an application and a website, just like in the old days,” Kurnikov said.
Echo is going to become publicly available on Monday, 3 October. They are already available on Twitter and Telegram. Kurnikov says both Alexander Plyushchev and Tatyana Felgenhauer, currently with Deutsche Welle, will be involved. The new media outlet will be donation-funded.