Russia

Russian state broadcaster VGTRK has agreed a two-year deal to broadcast games from French football’s Ligue 1, according to the Football.fr website.

The Global Sports Media Consumption Report 2013 shows that second-screen activity is growing, but is it a threat or an opportunity for the sports broadcasting industry?

Panasonic has enhanced its association with the Olympic Movement by signing up as an official supplier to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

NTV Plus has secured the Russian broadcast rights to Spain's Liga Endesa basketball division in a deal until the end of the 2013-14 season. 

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C More pays a little more for ice hockey to fend off rival bidders

ARD/ZDF could yet join EBU qualifiers deal

Handball deal is latest sign of Canal Plus fightback against aggressive Al Jazeera

Saran brothers sports-rights ambitions expand beyond Turkey; Perform and IMG take different routes to crack Turkish market; Super Lig deal probed

Latest Premier League deals

The English Premier League, the top division of football in the country, has awarded rights in Russia to pay-television broadcaster NTV-Plus and in Ukraine to the MP & Silva agency

First European deals point to increase despite some drops

Bigger EBU Qualifiers bid may not be enough to win over CAA

Russian pay-television broadcaster NTV Plus has agreed a four-year deal to produce the World Cup Series and the Senior World Championships of the Union International de Pentathlon Moderne, the international…

Latest ARD/ZDF athletics deal confirms market correction