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Television in Russia. Television is the most popular medium in Russia, with 74% of the population watching national television channels routinely and 59% routinely watching regional channels. [1] There are 6,700 television channels in total. [2]
Indeed, while Rossiya TV ( Channel Russia) was state-owned since its foundation in 1991, major shareholders of ORT and NTV ( Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, respectively) sold their stocks to the government and Gazprom in 2000–2001. Moreover, TV6, a media outlet owned by Berezovsky, was closed in 2002 using a legal loophole.
An October 2014 law limited to 20% the maximum quota of foreign ownership in the Russian media by 2017. This will affect independent publications such as Vedomosti and Forbes Russia. According to figures from the National Circulation Service agency, the most popular newspaper is Argumenty i Fakty which has a circulation of 2.9 million.
Since February 2008, she has been chairwoman of the Public Council of the National Media Group , the media group that controls Izvestia, Channel One and REN TV. [37] Between 2007 and 2014, Kabaeva was a Member of the Russian Parliament, the State Duma , representing Nizhnekamsk as a member of the United Russia party.
The list of channels in the first of the two of them was approved by a decree of the President of Russia. Over a period of 10 years, about 100 million TV-sets and about 20 million digital set-top boxes were sold. This had set the stage for the analogue switch-off (ASO). On November 29, 2018, the Russian government approved the ASO roadmap.
The Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the United States presidential election, officially titled Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, is the official report in five volumes documenting the findings and ...
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for national football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in late 2010. It was the eleventh time the championships had been held in Europe, the first time they were ...
Gazprom-Media (Russian: ОАО Газпром-Медиа) is a Russian media holding company. Gazprom-Media was established in January 1998 as a subsidiary of Gazprom Media Holdings. [2] It and its parent company are subsidiaries of Gazprom , a large Russian company founded in 1989, which carries on the business of extraction, production ...