RTVI

RTVI
Country	United States; Germany; Israel
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Headquarters	Moscow[citation needed]; New York
Ownership
Owner	Mikayel Israyelyan
History
Launched	1 January 1997
Former names	NTV International (1997–2002)
Links
Website	rtvi.com

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. Today, RTVI broadcasts in 159 countries, has more than 350 broadcasting operators around the world and 20 million viewers.

There are RTVI report points in 14 cities all over the world: New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Riga, Yerevan, Bishkek, Astana, Kyiv, Tallinn, Paris, London and Vilnius. The digital editorial office of the channel is located in Moscow.^{[citation needed]}

History

Ownership

The channel was founded in 1997 by Vladimir Gusinsky as a part of NTV channel.^[4] RTVI was owned by Russian businessman Ruslan Sokolov who bought the channel from its founder Vladimir Gusinsky in 2012. A group of Israeli private investors purchased RTVI International channel in 2017. In October 2019, the Armenia-born American Mikayel Israyelyan (Template:Lang-ru) was named the new owner of RTVI.^[3]

Staff

RTVi's News Director till June 2020 was Ekaterina Kotrikadze. Russian journalist Alexey Pivovarov was appointed editor-in-chief in 2016. Pivovarov remained in this position till 25 June 2020.^[3]^[5] On 10 March 2022, the general producer of RTVI Sergey Shnurov announced the temporary termination of cooperation with RTVI.^[6]

References

^ "RTVI разрешили вещать на Украине. С 2018 года телеканал был под запретом". rtvi.com. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
^ "Телеканал RTVi". kommersant.ru. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
^ ^a ^b ^c Сотников, Даниил (Sotnikov, Daniil); Чуракова, Ольга (Churakova, Olga); Баданин, Роман (Badanin, Roman); Рубин, Михаил (Rubin, Mikhail); Сурначева, Елизавета (Surnacheva, Elizabeth) (25 December 2019). "Друзья по особым поручениям. Рассказ о том, как Сергей Чемезов связался с либералами" [Friends on special missions. The story of how Sergey Chemezov got in touch with liberals]. Проект Медиа (Proekt) (in Russian). Retrieved 30 December 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ New owner
^ "Алексей Пивоваров покидает пост главного редактора RTVI" [Alexey Pivovarov leaves the post of editor-in-chief of RTVI]. rtvi.com (in Russian). 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
^ "Сергей Шнуров временно сложил с себя обязанности генерального продюсера RTVI" [Sergey Shnurov temporarily resigned from his duties as the general producer of RTVI]. rtvi.com (in Russian). 2022-03-10. Retrieved 2023-02-23.

External links

[1] "RTVI разрешили вещать на Украине. С 2018 года телеканал был под запретом". rtvi.com. Retrieved 2023-05-14.

[2] "Телеканал RTVi". kommersant.ru. Retrieved 2023-05-14.

[Project25122019-3] Сотников, Даниил (Sotnikov, Daniil); Чуракова, Ольга (Churakova, Olga); Баданин, Роман (Badanin, Roman); Рубин, Михаил (Rubin, Mikhail); Сурначева, Елизавета (Surnacheva, Elizabeth) (25 December 2019). "Друзья по особым поручениям. Рассказ о том, как Сергей Чемезов связался с либералами" [Friends on special missions. The story of how Sergey Chemezov got in touch with liberals]. Проект Медиа (Proekt) (in Russian). Retrieved 30 December 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[4] New owner

[5] "Алексей Пивоваров покидает пост главного редактора RTVI" [Alexey Pivovarov leaves the post of editor-in-chief of RTVI]. rtvi.com (in Russian). 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2023-02-23.

[6] "Сергей Шнуров временно сложил с себя обязанности генерального продюсера RTVI" [Sergey Shnurov temporarily resigned from his duties as the general producer of RTVI]. rtvi.com (in Russian). 2022-03-10. Retrieved 2023-02-23.

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