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The Sputnik international news agency and radio has opened a brand new high-tech studio in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, with the first radio show set to be broadcast later on Monday, Sputnik's press office said in a statement.

The Sputnik Arabic radio went on air in Lebanon where it is broadcasting its social and political shows on the nation’s main political radio station, Voice of Lebanon.

According to Sputnik.Polls, the majority of respondents in Italy (79 percent), France (67 percent) and Great Britain (53 percent) believe that the migrant crisis in their counties has got worse in the past year.

Sputnik International Information Agency and Radio launched on Monday a Lithuania news portal in Lithuanian and Russian languages.

The majority of German, Italian and Polish citizens are against the practice allowing athletes with chronic condition to take drugs, which may have performance-enhancing side effects, a poll conducted exclusively for Sputnik revealed on Friday.

According to a Sputnik.Polls survey, the majority of people in Germany (69%), France (55%) and Italy (51%) believe that the United States did a poor job as the only superpower and global leader after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The survey was conducted by Ifop for Sputnik News Agency and Radio.

The UNESCO vowed to further support rights of the media sphere employees, as well as to follow the situation regarding the European Parliament's resolution calling to counteract anti-EU propaganda by Russian news outlets, the organization said in a letter to Sputnik.

The UNESCO vowed to further support rights of the media sphere employees, as well as to follow the situation regarding the European Parliament's resolution calling to counteract anti-EU propaganda by Russian news outlets, the organization said in a letter to Sputnik.

A significant share of people in European countries support the idea of holding a referendum on leaving the EU, according to the results of a Sputnik.Polls survey.

Sputnik News Agency has signed a cooperation agreement with the Middle East News Agency (MENA), the leading news agency in Egypt.

Sputnik News Agency and Radio Broadcaster has received the support of both the International Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) following the passing of a controversial resolution by the European Parliament.

The Sputnik press service urges the European Union to aviod state-controlled censorship.

A survey conducted by the TNS UK research company in the US for Sputnik news agency and radio shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe the media were biased towards one of the candidates in the coverage of the presidential election.

According to a new Sputnik.Polls survey, the majority of Americans (60%) want to change the electoral system in the United States. Moreover, almost half of Americans (45%) believe that they should change to a "one man - one vote" system. The survey was conducted by research company TNS UK for Sputnik News Agency and Radio.

The Radio Station Awards is the Russian independent radio broadcasting award given to stations based on voting by Russian-language Internet users.

Sputnik News Agency and Radio on Monday restored full access to its English-language Twitter account, two days after its Twitter account was hacked, the agency’s press service said in a statement.

According to a recent Sputnik.Polls survey conducted by the polling and research company Ifop and commissioned by Sputnik News Agency and Radio, the majority of people in France, Spain and Italy would like to see Hillary Clinton as the next US president.

Sputnik news agency and radio will hold the Sputnik Journalism Workshop, a series of workshops for young foreign journalists, from October 31 to November 2.

A Russian-Chinese forum of online media has been opened in Guangzhou, China by the Sputnik news agency and radio and China Daily website, the leading English-language Chinese online media.

Sputnik Turkey is launching a morning radio show, Let the Game Continue, with well-known Turkish journalist, publicist, writer and blogger Enver Aysever.