📊 MTS Media flips the switch
MTS Group has published its 2025 financial results, highlighting the transformation of its media vertical.
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🛰 Broadcast outage at 56°E
Satellite TV subscribers are experiencing widespread signal issues due to a technical failure on the Express-AT1 satellite at the 56°E orbital position.
📊 Streamers bet on documentaries
In the second half of 2025, Russian online cinemas released 174 original projects, up 11% year-on-year.
🎨 Russian Extreme unveils new brand identity
From March 2026, the channels Russian Extreme and Russian Extreme Ultra are switching to a new visual style.
▶️ Online cinema market grows for the third year in a row
Russian video services continue to set new records: according to TelecomDaily, industry revenue in 2025 jumped 45% to reach 178.2 billion rubles.
🏴☠️ Piracy in Russia is on the decline
The market for illegal video content in Russia shrank by 5.5% in 2025, falling to 34.4 million dollars.
🎞 Law on “protecting traditional values” in film comes into force
A new law has come into force under which films that “deny or disparage traditional Russian spiritual and moral values” will no longer be able to obtain a distribution certificate.
💄 SHOT TV refreshes its image
The SHOT TV channel has unveiled a rebrand, switching to a new visual style from 1 March 2026. This is not just a logo change but a statement of intent to move into the premium movie-channel segment.
🧠 Soyuzmultfilm aims for metaverses and AI
The legendary studio has approved a development strategy that will transform it into a global brand holding, where animation becomes just one part of a broader ecosystem and the main goal is to build product universes around each character.
🔥 Olympics on Okko draws 8 million viewers
The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan made history for Russian broadcasting: for the first time, exclusive rights belonged not to TV channels, but to streaming service Okko.