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RTVI
RTVI is a global Russian-speaking multi-platform media, which includes a news website (about 4 million users per month) and other digital platforms (2.7 million subscribers): 6 YouTube channels, 2 Telegram channels and accounts in all major social networks. As of 2023, it broadcasts in 159 countries. It has more than 350 broadcasting operators around the world and 20 million viewers. History 1990s In 1997, the channel was founded as ''NTV International'' by Vladimir Gusinsky, where it would serve as the "international, license-cleared version" of the NTV (Russia), NTV channel. Its main audiences were the Russian-speaking diasporas of Russians in Israel, Israel, the Russian Americans, United States, and Europe. 2000s Following the Kursk disaster, numerous independent media outlets became very critical of Vladimir Putin who later would support an agenda for the state to gain control of these outlets. In the early 2000s Kiselev sold a majority stake in the network to a grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo TV Russia
Echo TV (since February 15, 2002, also Ekho TV, Телекомпания «Эхо», Эхо-ТВ) is a television company. Echo TV is affiliated with Echo of Moscow radio station and RTVi satellite television network. The president is Alexei Venediktov Alexei Alexeyevich Venediktov (; born 18 December 1955) is a Russian journalist, former editor-in-chief, host and co-ownerAlexey Venediktov' at ''Echo of Moscow'', January 1, 2016 (in Russian) of the Echo of Moscow radio station, as well as pub .... References External links * Russian-language television stations Defunct television channels in Russia RTVI Echo of Moscow Television production companies of Russia {{russia-tv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Americans
Russian Americans are Americans of full or partial Russians, Russian ancestry. The term can apply to recent Russian diaspora, Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to those that settled in the 19th-century Russian colonization of North America, Russian possessions in what is now Alaska. Russian Americans comprise the largest Eastern European and East Slavs, East Slavic population in the United States, the second-largest Slavic population after Polish Americans, the nineteenth-largest ancestry group overall, and the eleventh-largest from Europe. In the mid-19th century, waves of Russian immigrants fleeing religious persecution settled in the US, including Russian Jews and Spiritual Christians. From 1880 to 1917, within the wave of European immigration to the US that occurred during that period, a large number of Russians immigrated primarily for economic opportunities. These groups mainly settled in coastal cities, including Brooklyn (New York City) on the Northeas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVS (Russia)
TVS Television () was a private Russian television network which was shut down by the Press Ministry of Russia on June 22, 2003. Translation of Where The End Began For TVS. Kommersant, June 23, 2003, p. 4. Media-Sotsium was a nonprofit partnership, founded by Arkady Volsky, president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and Yevgeny Primakov, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Creation On January 11, 2002, a separate Russian television channel, TV-6 lost a court battle over bankruptcy and was placed into liquidation by a unanimous decision of thirteen judges of the Russian High Arbitration Court. States that there were "13 arbitration judges", not 14. At midnight on January 22, 2002 the Press Ministry pulled TV-6 off the air. The frequency was temporarily filled with programming from the NTV Plus Sports satellite channel. The auction for TV-6's old frequency took place on March 27, 2002. The Media-Sotsium partnership won the frequency a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov; (9 October 195927 February 2015) was a Russian physicist, liberalism in Russia, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy. In the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, he was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997). Later he worked in the government of Russia as Ministry of Energy (Russia), Minister of Fuel and Energy (1997), First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Vice Premier of Russia and Security Council of Russia, Security Council member from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he founded the Young Russia (liberal movement), Young Russia movement. In 1998, he co-founded the coalition group Right Cause and in 1999, he co-formed Union of Right Forces, an Electoral alliance, electoral bloc and subsequently a political party. Nemtsov was also a member of the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia, Congress of Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza ( rus, Владимир Владимирович Кара-Мурза, p=kɐˌra mʊrˈza; born 7 September 1981) is a Russian-British political activist, journalist, author, filmmaker, and former political prisoner. A protégé of murdered Russian dissident Boris Nemtsov, Kara-Murza is vice-chairman of Open Russia, an NGO founded by the exiled Russian businessman and former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which promotes civil society and democracy in Russia. He was elected to the Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition in 2012, and served as deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party from 2015 to 2016. He has directed two documentaries, ''They Chose Freedom'' and '' Nemtsov''. As of 2021, he serves as Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He was awarded the Civil Courage Prize in 2018. In April 2022, after speaking out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kara-Murza was arrested on charges of disobeyin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV-6 (Russia)
TV-6 () was one of Russia's first commercial television stations that began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and was closed on 22 January 2002. History 1991-1993 Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation (MIBC), a Russian joint-stock company, was established in August 1991. Among its shareholders were Government of Moscow, JSC Logovaz, Mosbiznesbank, OJSC Lukoil, All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, Mosfilm and private persons Eduard Sagalaev, Oleg Orlov and Nugzar Popkhadze. In May 1992, the VHF frequency in Moscow (channel 6) was used to carry CNN International content two hours a day translated to Russian, using an interim license. On 12 November 1992, MIBC won the competition to be allotted the sixth television channel frequency, ahead of the Russian newspaper Argumenty i Fakty and commercial radio station Europa Plus. The same year, MIBC and Turner Broadcasting System signed an agreement to establish Russia's first private independent television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Kiselyov
Yevgeny Alexeyevich Kiselyov (, ; born 15 June 1956) is a Russian television journalist. As the host of the NTV (Russia), NTV weekly news show ''Itogi'' in the 1990s, he became one of the nation's best known television journalists, criticizing government corruption and President Boris Yeltsin. In 2001, he left NTV following its takeover by the state-controlled company Gazprom, serving briefly as general manager of TV-6 (Russia), TV-6 before the government refused to renew its broadcasting license in January 2002. He later moved to Ukraine, where he became a presenter of various political talk shows. Background Kiselyov is the son of an aviation engineer. A student in Persian language, Persian at Moscow State University, he later worked as an interpreter in Iran and Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. He began his broadcast career with the Persian service of Radio Moscow in 1984, moving to television three years later. He became famous in 1991 when he refused to report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo Of Moscow
Echo of Moscow () was a 24/7 commercial Russian radio station based in Moscow. It broadcast in many Russian cities, some of the former Soviet republics (through partnerships with local radio stations), and via the Internet. From 1996 its editor-in-chief was Alexei Venediktov. On 1 March 2022, it was taken off the air by Roskomnadzor accusing it of spreading false information about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 3 March, the board of directors voted to close the station down. While the radio programming of Ekho of Moscow ceased to exist, Venediktov and most of the employees began a spin-off YouTube channel, ''Zhivoi Gvozd (literally "Live Nail", in Russian a rhyming pun on the common term "Live Guest"), which follows the late station's format and schedule. In October 2022, Echo resumed online programming from Berlin, Germany via its Echo app. History Echo of Moscow gained attention during the events of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
