REN TV is a Russian free-to-air television network. It was founded on 1 January 1997 by Irena Lesnevskaya and her son, Dmitry Lesnevsky, who had been running REN TV as a production house for other national Russian television channels. Though it focuses mostly on audiences aged between 18 and 45 years old, the network offers programming for a wide range of demographics.
CTC is a commercial television station based in Moscow, Russia. It belongs to the CTC Media company. The company is owned by National media group (Russia) and VTB Bank (Russia).
The Rossiya Bank is a Russian joint stock bank founded on June 27, 1990. The company's headquarters are in Saint Petersburg.
Yury Valentinovich Kovalchuk is a Russian billionaire businessman and financier who is "reputed to be Vladimir Putin's personal banker". The Panama Papers leak revealed that Kovalchuk had transferred at least $1 billion to an offshore entity.
Gazprom-Media is a Russian media holding company. Gazprom-Media was established in January 1998 as a subsidiary of Gazprom Media Holdings. It and its parent company are subsidiaries of Gazprom, a large Russian company founded in 1989, which carries on the business of extraction, production, transport, and sale of natural gas. The group owns more than 38 television channels and 10 radio stations.
Rosokhrankultura, full name: Federal Service for monitoring compliance with cultural heritage protection law, is a state agency of Russia responsible for keeping the national register of cultural heritage, enforcing preservation of listed properties through monitoring compliance with preservation law and enforcing compliance with copyright law, including licensing of copyright management agencies.
CTC Media LLC is a Russian broadcasting company with headquarters in Moscow, Russia.
Cartoon Network was a children's pay television channel in CIS & Southeast Europe which was launched on 1 October 2009, replacing the pan-European feed of Cartoon Network in those regions. Cartoon Network was available in Bulgarian, Croatian, English, Russian, Serbian and Slovene. As of September 18, 2024, the channel ceased broadcasting, it was replaced by Cartoon Network CEE.
Tricolor TV is Russia's largest direct-to-home provider based in Saint-Petersburg and has broadcast two hundred TV channels in the European part of Russia and Siberia since 2005. As of October 2014, Tricolor TV provided satellite services to over fifteen million subscribers.
Synterra Media is the national backbone communication carrier of Russia, which provides a comprehensive range of telecommunication services to national corporations, public structures, corporate customers, communication operators, content providers and private users in the territory of Russia and the CIS countries, Baltic states, Europe and Asia. It is fully owned by Multiregional TransitTelecom.
Cartoon Network is a European pay television channel broadcast in the Baltic States, Bulgaria, CIS, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. It launched on 1 June 1998 and is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division.
Rutube, stylized as RUTUBE, is a Russian video platform. It includes a library of licensed content including movies, series, cartoons, shows, and live broadcasts. It also hosts blogs, podcasts, video game streams, and educational content.
Iowa, is a Belarusian-Russian pop rock trio.
Alexey Gennadievich Komissarov is a Russian entrepreneur, acting Rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), the Director of the Graduate School of Public Administration at the RANEPA, and ex-minister of the Government of Moscow.
Oleg Konstantinovich Rudnov was a Russian businessman and the chairman of the Baltic Media Group (BMG) which was established in 2003. Since his death, the company has been owned by his son Sergei. He has been described as a close ally of president Vladimir Putin. As well as Baltic Media Group, he was the owner of Bank Rossiya with Yury Kovalchuk and the Sellgren estate near to Vyborg.
Pavel Albertovich Lobkov is a Russian journalist. He was one of the main presenters and commentators on the television channel TV Rain (2012–2021). Previously, he was the host of the program Progress with Pavel Lobkov on Petersburg – Channel 5 (2007–2008), NTV, and the program correspondent Itogi (1993–2001).
Global Ports stands as the foremost operator of container terminals in the Russian market boasting impressive throughput capacity and container turnover. Global Ports’ terminals are located in the Baltic and Far Eastern basins. These areas serve as pivotal hubs for foreign trade cargo flows within the Russian Federation.
Yellow, Black and White (YBW) Group is a Russian company, engaged in TV shows, series and movies production. The main company's partner from 2008 to 2017 is "STS" TV channel. In the period from 2018 till 2020 YBW was cooperating with "Super" TV channel, but also it was creating the content for Channel One, Russia-1, NTV and others TV channels.
Aram Mnatsakanov is a chef, restaurateur, television personality, and the host of the Russian and Ukrainian versions of the TV shows Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares. He currently owns and/or operates restaurants in Russia and Europe, such as Probka Restaurant Group and MINE in Berlin.
Ilyas Vasipov (1974—2016) was a Russian journalist, who worked for VGTRK, NTV, and 5TV. He "influenced a whole generation of St. Petersburg journalists".
