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] “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ГРУДЕНЬ 201 2 WWW. UNWLA.ORG 31 20 Years of the BBC Ukrainian Service: A Look from Inside by Nataliya Jensen Nataliya Jensen (Khyzhnyak) is the correspondent for the BBC Ukrainian service in Washington, DC . Before 2007, when she began reporting from the United States capital, Jensen had worked, both on radio and online, for the BBC Ukrainian service in London and the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Ukrainian Service in Kyiv. She writes extensively on U.S . - Ukraine relations, U.S . - Russia relations, and Ukrainian domestic politics. Jensen graduated from Kyiv Shevchen ko State University, with BA and MA degree s in sociol o- gy. In 2001 she was a visiting fellow in the School of Journalism at the Un i- versity of Missouri, Columbia, and a fellow at the Salzburg Global Seminar. The Ukrainian Service of the British Broad casting Corporation (BBC) started work on June 1, 1992 , after the British government de - cided that the transition toward democracy of the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union would be aided by providing their citizens with access to objective news and information. Accompanied by the sound of the famous chimes of Big Ben in London, the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk , and UK Prime M i- nister John Major took part in the first program, which aired on June 1, 1992. In the ensuing years the BBC Ukrainian Service covered the countries ' eventful history from the BBC headquarte rs in London, a bureau i n Kyi v and free lance journa l- ists around the world. International as well as domestic affairs, for example, were the fo cus of two well - known programs, “Ranok z BBC” and “Dobry Vechir z Londona ,” which were broadcast on FM waves to Ukraine each day. According to BBC surveys, conducted in Ukraine in 2010, the audience of BBC Ukrainian radio was nearly 5 million listeners, am ong them political leaders, parliamentary deputies, bus i- nessmen, students, and pensioners. The listeners of BBC Ukrainian radio were usually people with higher education. I remember vividly BBC coverage of the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, which I co v- ered from London while my colleagues reported The jury committee of the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year Award 2011 .
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