MTV Networks has sold its majority stake in a Russian joint venture for $360 million, reducing its participation in a market where it was a pioneer in bringing western youth culture to the eastern bloc.
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June 4, 2007Russian state-owned news channel Russia Today on Thursday began broadcasting in Arabic in 32 Muslim countries, Russian news agencies reported.
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May 31, 200763% of Russians questioned in a survey did not see television broadcasts of the latest Eurovision song contest in Helsinki this month.
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May 26, 2007British TV broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a television drama about the poisoning of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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December 8, 2006CNN International will turn the spotlight on Russia during a week of special programming starting on Monday, December 11.
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December 7, 2006
Although their documents were completely in order, ORF (Austrian public channel) journalist Susanne Scholl and her team have been arrested on the 24th of november in Chechnya.
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November 30, 2006A Russian lawmaker and billionaire industrialist was being treated in a hospital Monday for severe burns suffered when a sports car he was driving slammed into a tree and caught fire in southeastern France over the weekend, police said.
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November 28, 2006Russian TV star Tina Kandelaki denies she was in the car with Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov when he crashed his Ferrari on the Riviera Saturday, Reuters news agency reported Tuesday.
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While addressing the Russian nation in a live question-and-answer broadcast President President Vladimir Putin said that he owned a number of mobiles all of which did not work.
“I have a lot of mobile phones, but none of them works. I just don’t have enough time for this,†the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted Putin as saying.
The president stressed that he has “another means for communication,†which he didn’t specify.
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October 27, 2006Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to take questions from across Russia in a nationwide multimedia broadcast, BBC News reports.
People can take part by telephone or e-mail, and residents in nine specially selected towns will put their questions direct to Putin via a TV link-up.
The phone-in, held four times before, is due to start at 08 GMT.
More than a million questions have so far been submitted to the organizers’ website, many about worries over wages, pensions and rising housing costs.
The event will be broadcast on national television networks and major radio stations.
Correspondents say if the session follows previous appearances, Putin is likely to face tailor-made, even fawning questions, with the occasional difficult topic being raised.
One of the towns chosen to take part directly is Kondopoga close to the border with Finland, where in August violent race riots erupted and businesses owned by migrants were attacked.
The BBC’s James Rodgers, who is in Kondopoga, says given the town’s recent anti-immigrant violence, the subject may well be raised by residents during the broadcast.
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