It differs from other similar stations since it broadcasts songs almost exclusively in Russian.
In Moscow Russkoye Radio began broadcasting on 2 August 1995.
[1] In 1996, Russkoye Radio established the folk music award Golden Gramophone, which takes place at the end of each year in the Kremlin in Moscow and a similar ceremony takes place at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg.
Also, Russkoye Radio was broadcast in Ukraine from 2001 to 2022 under the name Russkoye Radio Ukraina (Ukrainian: Русское Радио Україна).
In February 2022, Russkoye Radio Ukraina stopped broadcasting due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and was replaced with Radio Bayraktar (Ukrainian: Радіо Байрактар).