Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti Moscow, 3 December: The Russian government has approved its TV and radio broadcasting development strategy for 2008-15. Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov has signed an order to this effect, the cabinet's press service reported today.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Russia is launching the new foreign- language TV Channel - RUSIA HOY. The Spanish channel will complement its flagship English Channel RUSSIA TODAY and Arabic RUSIYA AL-YAUM.

Broadcasting of several TV channels has been suspended in the Russian Far East because communication with the Yamal-200 satellite was broken down, Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported on 6 April.

Text of report by Russian news agency RIA Novosti Vladivostok, 6 April: Broadcasting of the several TV channels in Maritime and Khabarovsk territories suspended for six hours due to a technical failure in the work of the Yamal-200 space communications satellite has been restored.

Text of report by Interfax-Ukraine news agency Kiev, 23 October: [Russia's] Channel One has presented a package of its themed TV channels - called Digital TV Family - in Ukraine.