DUSHANBE, September 15, 2010, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan will resume rebroadcasting Russia’s television channel, RTR-Planeta, today evening, Asia-Plus has learned from the source at Tajikistan’s Committee for TV and Radio-broadcasting.
All problems have been resolved and it just remained to settle some technical aspects, the source said.
We will recall that an agreement on resumption of RTR-Planeta rebroadcasting in Tajikistan was reached during a meeting of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon with his Russian counterpart, President Dmitry Medvedev, in Sochi, Russia on August 18.
Tajik Committee for TV and Radio-broadcasting stopped airing the state-run RTR Planeta on March 2, 2009 due to unpaid fees by the Russian side. RTR-Planeta was the only Russian-language broadcaster operating in Tajikistan as the rebroadcasting of Russia”s First Public Television Channel (ORT) programs in the country ended in 1999 due to ORT”s reluctance to pay fees.
ORT and other Russian television channels are now available only for holders of holders of satellite dishes in Tajikistan. In the meantime, according to the statistical data from Teleradikom, not more than 15 percent of Tajikistan’s more than 7-million population have satellite dishes.
