Moscow will help CIS’s TV channels to broadcast in Russia, but expects “a parity-based approach” from its partners. The integration processes between the CIS countries and more active humanitarian contacts “create high demand for exchange of information,” President Dmitry Medvedev said on yesterday. Speaking at a meeting devoted to the CIS countries’ information presence in Russia, he stressed that relations in this area “should be built on a non-ideological, pragmatic and equal basis.”
on Mar 11th, 2010 at 18:12
To be fair Russian TV channels are much better represented on CIS TV markets than the other way around. So it’s kind of funny to hear Medvedev to speak of “a parity-based approach.” Even Belarus didn’t manage to get into Moscow cable system. President Lukahsnko contacted Moscow’s all-powerful mayor but to no avail
on Mar 11th, 2010 at 18:58
Perhaps it’s a typo, and he actually said ‘a party-based approach’