[Stuart]

Yeah, Ukraine wasn't the only country to have broken away from the former USSR in 1991, plus we've had Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia break up since then, so anything from 1991 wouldn't be the newest. Makes much more sense if they've only existed in their present form since six years ago.

Technically, nobody 'broke away from the USSR', the union simply ceased to exist and dissolved into the existing separate republics. I'm sure many of them were already operating their own broadcasting services for linguistic/cultural reasons long beforehand.

Yugoslavia was rather different, but again, they actually had many internal cultural differences so I'm sure already had some regional services within the federation.

Czechoslovakia was the 'cuddly version' of breaking up a country. They gave each other a big hug and waved goodbye. They refer to it as the 'velvet divorce'. They had a broadcast service ČST from 1953, which then simply split in two and renamed themselves as Česká Televize and Slovenská Televízia.