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Хит FM: Стопудовый Хит is a spinoff of Hit FM, a Russian network founded in 1997 by former Universal Music Russia president Boris Zosimov that grew from one Moscow frequency into roughly 600 cities.
Маруся FM launched in 2015 and expanded gradually through Crimea and Belgorod before reaching more than 125 Russian cities, building its entire format around dance music by exclusively Russian-language artists.
RetroFM began as a five-hour programming block on Moscow's Radio-1 Ostankino in 1995 before becoming an independent station, now reaching over eight million daily listeners under Russia's European Media Group.
Голос Бирмы is a Moscow-based Russian-language station named for Myanmar but built to cover culture and music from across Asia, pairing news and travel segments with a wide range of Asian sounds.
This station streams nothing but Звери, the Russian rock band founded by Roman Bilyk in 2000, timed with the band's announced creative hiatus following its August 2026 farewell show at Luzhniki Stadium.
DFM Bass House is the underground digital offshoot of DFM, the Moscow station that launched in 2000 as Radio Dinamit and had to rebrand after the word "dynamite" became a liability following the 2004 Russian aircraft bombings.
Всесоюзное радио streams round-the-clock Soviet-era programming and music as one channel inside Cassiopeia Station, a Russian internet radio syndicate that started life in 2020 as a podcast about electronic music before it got blocked.
Симфония FM launched as an April Fools' prank from Radio Record, Russia's biggest dance music brand, and quietly became a permanent 24-hour classical channel running Bach, Mozart and film scores from Saint Petersburg.
Radio 7 Moscow launched in June 1992 as a bilingual station built to be American radio on Russian soil, then rebuilt itself in 1995 as the all-Russian Radio 7 on Seven Hills, now a network spanning more than 60 cities.
Radio Rodnykh Dorog is a Russian driving-focused radio network launched in 2017 in Cheboksary, built around singer Valery Syutkin's 1996 hit about a fictional radio station for drivers, with Syutkin now serving as its official voice.
Шансон без цензуры streams uncut Russian chanson rooted in 19th-century prison and street songs, a genre whose modern name was coined as a marketing rebrand by producer Yuri Sevostyanov in 1993.
Alyaxen Radiostation is a small independent internet station streaming Russian-language pop hits from the 1990s to today, running continuously online since 2005.
