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In Ukraine's ordering this is number 60 of 125, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

This is a English station in a country whose directory presence is led by Ukrainian. 15 entries in Ukraine broadcast in English, which is a small group and a coherent one, and browsing it is a different experience from browsing the country.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from Ukraine is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

relax int streams at 128 kbps, under Ukraine's median of 192 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream is served from online.radiorelax.ua, an address three other entries in Ukraine use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.