TV audiences in Washington and its suburbs can now watch lots more Russian and CIS television. The MHC networks are now carrying programmes for free from 1800 to midnight local time, on the MHC networks.
The Russo-US project aims to reach TV audiences in Washington and its suburbs, where around 100,000 Russian-speaking people live at present. Some programmes will have English subtitles, which is expected to broaden the TV audiences by approximately 1.5 million people.
President and chief producer of the Russian World Channel, Vladimir Ananich, emphasised that the financial and editorial politics of the new television project were independent of the state.
The Russian World TV channel has also extended its broadcasts on the MHz Networks free channel from one to six hours a day