"Patriotic media holding" is created

On the basis of the Russian Media Group holding and several musical television channels of the Kremlin Media company, it is proposed to create a musical media holding that should provide a creative and music resource to solve the ideological problems facing the country's leadership in working with the electorate.

This is stated in a letter to President Vladimir Putin producer VIA Earthlings and the founder of the Federation of the Federation Fund, Vladimir Kiselev and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russian Media Group, Olga Plaksina. A copy of the letter dated October 2014, with Putin's visa “Volodin. Consider ”was at the disposal of the newspaper Vedomosti .

According to the document, on the basis of television channels and radio stations of the Russian Media Group, an incubator of domestic superstars will be created. The authors of the letter justify the need for this by the foreign policy situation does not allow betting on foreign artists, their own are needed so that the ideologically correctly tuned idols of millions are needed.

According to the initiators of the project, its coordination center could become the State Medical Center, and the partners - the TV channels Muz.Tv (Yutwas Holding), Bridge TV , Rusong and Russian Travel Guide ( Bridge Media holding).

The presidential administration reported that there were no instructions to promote Kiselev and Plaksina, but the state was ready to help such an initiative.

It has already been implemented: at the end of June it became known that the state insurance will acquire the assets of the Russian Media Group, which includes the Russian Radio, Hit FM, Maximum , DFM, Monte Carlo and the RU.TV musical television channel. To do this, the Ministry of Finance is going to allocate 2 billion rubles from the budget by the State Committee forces. Last week, the Federal Antimonopoly Service approved the deal.

In mid-July, at a meeting on the distribution of publicly available television and radio channels, the deputy minister of communications, Alexei Volin, announced the creation of a “patriotic musical holding” to operators of communication and paid TV. They are recommended to be distributed as part of their packages, including a preferential presence in the networks, musical and patriotic television channels-Muz Kiss, Moszks, R. Lab, Europe Plus RU and RDV . With the exception of RDV , they all received the media license on June 19, 2015, their founder - Kremlin Media LLC.