MOSCOW, October 9 – Novosti. The Mir TV and radio company has not faced account blocking by foreign Internet platforms, editor-in-chief Radik Batyrshin told Novosti.
In Bishkek , on October 9, 1992, an agreement was signed on the establishment of the Mir interstate television and radio company.
“Unlike other leading media in Russia , we have not faced blocking of our accounts by foreign Internet platforms. Moreover, for example, the MIR 24 YouTube channel successfully continues its work: today there are more than 2.3 million subscribers,” Batyrshin said.
The company is actively developing in domestic social networks and instant messengers: VKontakte, Odnoklassniki , Yandex.Zen, Telegram , RuTube , the editor-in-chief emphasized.
“For example, Yandex.Zen is the leader in audience growth this year – the number of subscribers increased by 80% in nine months and reached 167,000. In social networks, we publish multimedia content of various formats and genres: from small text news to large longreads and videos,” he said.
Batyrshin noted that they pin special hopes on the “VK Video” service, which already today may well compete with leading, including Western, video services. “Today, the total number of subscribers in all social networks, instant messengers and video hosting sites has exceeded 3.6 million,” he concluded.
The TV and radio company “Mir” was established to cover the political, economic and humanitarian cooperation of the CIS countries and to form a common information space and promote the international exchange of information. The company includes TV channels “Mir”, “Mir24”, radio “Mir”, information and analytical portal and multifunctional satellite system “MIR-Teleport”.
