Vladislav Shirobokov

Vladislav Shirobokov is a co-founder of East-West Digital News. He brings an extensive experience in business development and event production in the fields of telecom, digital content, e-commerce and, more broadly, innovative industries. Mr. Shirobokov is a graduate of the faculty of International Relations at St Petersburg State University. He also obtained an EMBA in general management at the Stockholm School of Economics.

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Tricolor affirms leadership on pay TV market, attempts to attract investment from VTB

November 26, 2012

Tricolor TV, Russia’s leading pay TV operator with 8.5 million paid subscribers, claims half a million HDTV subscribers, with optimistic plans to reach 3.9 million subscribers by next year and 7 million by 2015, the Russian tech news portal Digit.ru reported last week. Aiming to become the leading European HD provider, in March of 2012 …

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Platforma HD ceases broadcasting

July 4, 2012

The Russian pre-pay DTH platform Platforma HD and its sister service Platforma DV ceased broadcasting on July 1. The company’s website gives no explanation as to why the closure took place. ComNews.ru reported that Platforma HD’s subscriber base has been transferred to leading Russian DTH platform Tricolor TV. The latter’s audience, which amounts to some 10 million …

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SES and Intelsat satellites repositioned to better cover Russian territory

September 22, 2011

Global satellite operator SES and Russian satellite operator Gazprom Space Systems (GSS) announced the formation of a strategic partnership last week to provide additional satellite capacity to serve the Russian market. Under the agreement, SES has repositioned its ASTRA 1F satellite from 51 degrees East to 55 degrees East, reported Telesputnik, a Russian publication covering …

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Satellite loss in the skies and inefficiencies on the ground expose the difficulty of digital TV deployment

August 31, 2011

The loss of the Express-AM4 communication satellite earlier this month has exposed the substantial difficulties facing the deployment of the DVB-T broadcasting network in Russia. Made by EADS Astrium, Express-AM4 satellite was equipped with transponders operating in C-, Ku-, Ka- and L-bands. These transponders were designed to provide DVB-T broadcasting and broadband Internet coverage across the …

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Mobile digital TV given a new chance in Moscow

May 7, 2011

Sistema Mass-Media (SMM), part of financial corporation Sistema, announced it would resume the project of creating a mobile digital television system in DVB-H standard in Moscow, reported Vedomosti, a Russian business daily. Digital Television and Radio Broadcasting (DTB), a wholly owned subsidiary of SMM specializing in automobile digital TV, will take up the project in …

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120 Russian TV companies and content distributors at MIPTV

April 15, 2011

More than 120 Russian broadcasters and content distributors represented Russia at MIPTV, a key industry event for the European content market that took place in Cannes, France, from March 31 to April 4. This year, the show has hosted more than 11,500 participants from 107 countries.

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