The unitary enterprise All-Russia State Television and Radio Company (Russian: Всероссийская государственная телевизионная и радиовещательная компания, Vserossiyskaya gosudarstvennaya televizionnaya i radioveshchatelnaya kompaniya, abbr.VGTRK) is a state-owned Russian television and radio company which owns the Russia TV Channel. It was founded in 1990 in a move to give the president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, its own voice, independent of the Soviet channels.

• television channels
  • Bebighon
  • Kultura
  • Rossiya
  • RTR Sport
  • Vesti-24

• radio channels
  • Radio Mayak
  • Radio Rossii
  • Vesti-FM
  • Voice of Russia

• websites
  • inosmi.ru
  • smi.ru
  • strana.ru
  • vesti.ru

• news agency
  • RIA Novosti

Chairpersons

• Oleg Poptsov (1990—96)
• Eduard Sagalayev (1996—97)
• Nikolay Svanidze (1997—98)
• Mikhail Shvydkoy (1998—2000)
• Oleg Dobrodeyev (since 2000)

External links

• VGTRK home pages (russian)

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