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Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

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in the independent

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

Dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

. It was broadcast from

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. N.R.M. (''Niezaležnaja Respublika Mroja'', "Independent Republic of Dreams" in English) are a rock band from Minsk, Belarus, founded in 1981 as Mroja ( be, Мроя). They are considered to be the most popular rock band in the country. They perf ...

, Krambambula,

Lyapis Trubetskoy Lyapis Trubetskoy (russian: Ляпис Трубецкой, be, Ляпіс Трубяцкі) was a Belarusian rock band. It was named after comical hero from Ilya Ilf's and Yevgeny Petrov's novel "The Twelve Chairs", poet and potboiler Nikifor Ly ...

, and

Neuro Dubel Neuro Dubel (Russian: Нейро Дюбель, Belarusian: Нейра Дзюбель) is a Belarusian punk rock band originating from Minsk signed by West Records. It was founded by Alaksandar Kulinkovič (born 18 May 1972, died 4 August 2018) ...

. At 12:40 p.m. on 12 January 2011, Autoradio's transmitting license was revoked and the station was shut down.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 Oleg Vitoldovich Proleskovsky ( be, Алег Вітальдавіч Праляскоўскі ''Aleg Vitaldavich Pralyaskovski''; russian: Олег Витольдович Пролесковский ''Oleg Vitoldovich Proleskovskiy''; born 1 Octob ...

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 (as transliterated from Russian language, Russian; also transliterated from Belarusian language, Belarusian as Alyaksand(a)r Ryhoravich Lukashenka;, ; rus, Александр Григорьевич Лука� ...

during the

2010 Belarusian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 19 December 2010. The elections were 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 20 ...

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

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