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Russia
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Russia’s Sistema Mass Media appoints president
Russia’s Sistema Mass Media, which counts TV, production and advertising holdings among its assets, has…
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NTV+ teams up with Elemental, Broadcom for 4K test
Russian pay TV broadcaster NTV+ has used the Sochi Winter Olympics to test broadcast transmissions…
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Paramount launching in Russia and Hungary
Viacom has struck new carriage deals for the Paramount Channel in Russia and Hungary. In…
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Cosmos TV Belarus adds TiJi
Belarusian pay TV operator Cosmos TV Belarus has added two new channels to its programming…
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MTS extends chief executive’s contract
Russian service provider MTS has extended the contract of current president Andrey Dubovskov for a…
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Regulator throws lifeline to Raduga TV
Russian satellite pay TV operator Raduga TV has been granted two licences to operate new…
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CTC Media ups digital focus with transmedia department
Russian broadcaster CTC Media has said it aims to further develop and enhance its presence…
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Consumer rights group files suit over Dozhd affair
Russia’s Consumer Rights Protection Society (OZPP) has filed a lawsuit against four pay TV operators…
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Russian TV heavily dominated by national content
Seventy-seven per cent of content broadcast by Russia’s leading TV channels is of Russian origin,…
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Ivi.ru doubles audience
Russian online video service provider Ivi.ru doubled its audience to 30 million users last year,…
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Dozhd will fight on despite loss of Tricolor, say management
Besieged Russian independent news and factual channel Dozhd’s management say it will not close despite…
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NBC Olympics announces tech partners for Sochi
Harmonic is providing its MediaGrid shared storage and MediaDeck integrated media playout server system to…
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Russia’s Kartina VoD service and PeerTV launch OTT set-top
Russian expatriate-targeted on-demand service provider Kartina has launched the Kartina IQ set-top in partnership with…
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VimpelCom names sales chief
Russian service provider VimpelCom has named Filipp Sapronov as director of sales. Sapronov was previously…
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Dozhd under siege as prosecutors open investigation
Russian prosecutors have reportedly opened an investigation into whether independent TV channel Dozhd broke the…
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Russian operators drop Dozhd after Leningrad siege survey
A number of Russian pay TV operators including NTV+, Akado and Rostelecom have dropped culture…
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Tricolor TV sees subscriber bounce
Russian pay TV operator Tricolor TV reported an 18.4% increase in satellite TV customers last…
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Russian cable association calls for free access to apartment buildings
Russia’s cable association, the ACTR, has called for adequate financial compensation for the must-carry status…
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E! Entertainment launching in Russia
Celebrity gossip and entertainment channel E! Entertainment Television is launching in Russia and the CIS…
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CTC Media launches Peretz in central Asia
Russian broadcaster CTC Media has launched its Peretz channel in Kyrgyzstan following a deal with…
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RTR taps Megafon for CDN ahead of Sochi
Russian state broadcaster RTR has tapped telecom operator Megafon to provide CDN services for internet…
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Akado highlights new products
Russian service provider Akado is using the CSTB trade show in Moscow to highlight new…
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Nauka Telecom chooses RGB Networks for new OTT service
Russian network operator Nauka Telecom has chosen RGB Networks’ transcoding and packaging technology for its…
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Tricolor makes new management appointments
Russian pay TV leader Tricolor TV has made a series of new management appointments. Former…
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History launches in Ukraine, grows in Russia
A+E Networks-owned pay TV channel History has launched in the Ukraine on a DTH platform…
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Amedia hails online subscriber growth
Russian broadcaster Amedia’s online subscription video-on-demand service Amediatek has attracted a subscriber base of 110,000…
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Russian win for Elemental
Russia’s Channel One has chosen video technology provider Elemental’s video processing platform for its coverage…
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Russian pay TV market sees growth
The Russian pay TV market grew by 3% last year, with the number of digital…
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TTK teams up with Akamai
Russian service provider TTK has signed a network partnership agreement with CDN giant Akamai to…
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Tvigle launches on PS3 consoles in Russia
Russian VOD service Tvigle is launching on the PlayStation3, bringing shows like zombie drama The Walking…