RT will receive 41% more money from the budget

In 2015, the RT (Russia Today) channel will receive 41% more funds from the federal budget than it was planned earlier, and subsidies to Russia today will increase 2.5 times.

Subsidies for the autonomous non-profit organization Tv-News ( RT TV channel) in 2015 will amount to 15.38 billion rubles, RBC quotes data from the federal budget approved by the Government for 2015 and the planning period of 2016-2017.

For 2014, 11.87 billion rubles were allocated on RT , for 2015 it was planned to allocate 10.95 billion rubles. Thus, next year, compared with the current support for the TV channel, it will grow by almost 30%, and compared to the initial numbers - by 41%.

RT editor Margarita Simonyan explained that the budget of ANO “TV-News” has been increased due to the launch of channels in French and German

The International Information Agency (MIA) “Russia Today”, which is also the editor -in -chief of which is also Simonyan since the end of December 2013, and Dmitry Kiselev, the general director, will receive 6.48 billion rubles in 2015, according to the budget draft.

The RIA Novosti agency, on the basis of which a new agency was created, was supposed to receive 2.67 billion rubles in 2014, and in 2015 2.35 billion rubles were allocated for it (the increase, respectively, was 142% and 176%).

Subsidies for media companies that do not engage in international broadcasting will increase slightly in 2015.