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BBC Monitoring is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation that monitors the mass media worldwide. It is based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages. BBC Monitoring is funded by subsciptions from governments and enterprises throughout the world. It does not receive any licence fee money. The work of BBC Monitoring is published on the BBC News webpage and also on Ceefax page 147.History of BBC Monitoring
The organisation was formed in 1939 to provide the British Government access to foreign media and propaganda. It provided a valuable source of information during World War II, particuarly where foreign journalists are banned. The organisation played an important role in helping observers keep track of developments during the Cold War, the disintegration of the Iron CurtainThe Iron Curtain is a term used in the West to refer to the boundary line which divided Europe into two separate areas of political influence from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War. During this period, Eastern Europe was under the poli and collapse of the Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1. Also monitored were the Yugoslav warsThe Yugoslav wars were a series of violent conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia that went on in the 1990s. They comprised two series of successive wars affecting all of the six former Yugoslav republics. Conflicts in the west Slovenian War and the Middle EastThe Middle East is a geographical and cultural area comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. The Middle East is a subregion of Afr.
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