Roskomnadzor has confirmed that due to recent amendments to legislation on protecting children from harmful information, age ratings on film distribution certificates previously issued by the Ministry of Culture may now be outdated.
MediaHills has released a report on TV viewership in Russia’s regions over the first 11 months of 2025, noting an overall drop in reach compared to the previous year.
The publication Sport-Express and the CTC television network have announced the launch of a joint 24/7 entertainment channel called C+.
Researchers at Yandex have developed a new method for evaluating machine translation quality called RATE (Refined Assessment for Translation Evaluation).
According to Mediascope, TV viewing in Russia showed growth in 2025 for the first time since 2022 — driven by the child audience.
Ahead of the law banning films that discredit traditional values, which comes into force on March 1, 2026, Russian online cinemas have begun mass self-censorship of their content.
The audience of Russian video services grew by 36.2 million over the past year, reaching 166.7 million, according to the Association of Bloggers and Agencies (ABA).
Over the first 11 months of 2025, Russian cinemas recorded 108.4 million admissions, 8 million fewer than the year before.
Every fifth resident of Russia (21%) regularly encounters AI-generated content. At the same time, 43% of respondents admitted they cannot distinguish a deepfake from material created by a human.
In 2025, vertical content formats became the main trend on VKontakte, significantly increasing audience engagement, as stated in the platform’s year-end results.
