Russia

The Lagardère Sports agency has renewed an agreement with the Kontinental Hockey League to continue distributing the international media rights for the ice hockey competition.

The Russian Premier League, the top division of domestic football, is targeting a 50 per cent increase in the value of its next broadcast contract as it emerged that two clubs have agreed rights deals with local broadcasters ahead of the start of the 2017-18 season.

The International World Games Association has said the 2017 edition of its showpiece event will receive record levels of exposure across the world.

State-owned sports broadcaster Match TV has acquired rights in Russia for the 2017 Uefa Women’s Euro, according to the Sports.ru news website.

Fifa wants Russia to pay more than double what the country is willing to spend on broadcast rights for football’s 2018 World Cup in the country, according to Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko.

Fifa confirmed yesterday (Sunday) that football’s global governing body had awarded rights for the 2017 Confederations Cup to Russian broadcasters Channel One and Match TV.

Russian broadcasters VGTRK, Channel One and Match TV have agreed a deal with Fifa for rights to this year’s Confederations Cup, but wrangling over rights to the 2018 World Cup continues.

Tina Kandelaki, the general producer of Match TV, has said that the Russian privately-held broadcaster has agreed a deal to show the 2017 Fifa Confederations Cup and the 2018 World Cup national team football tournaments.

Russian state-controlled commercial broadcaster Channel One and privately-held broadcaster Match TV have secured rights to the forthcoming Fifa Confederations Cup national team football tournament, according to Sport-Express.

The Russian Premier League, the top division of domestic football, has opened talks over extending its rights deal with privately-held broadcaster Match TV.

Gazprom-Media chief executive Dmitry Chernyshenko has said Russian broadcasters have put forward a “unified proposal” to world football’s governing body as the rights to the 2018 World Cup in its host country remain on the table.

Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura has expressed her confidence that a “compromise” will be reached on the subject of broadcast rights to the 2018 World Cup in the host nation of the national team football showpiece, Russia.

Russian broadcasters are willing to pay 20 per cent more for the 2018 Fifa World Cup than they did for 2014, according to Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko.

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has added to the criticism of Fifa regarding the sale of domestic broadcast rights to the 2018 World Cup and 2017 Confederations Cup, stating world football’s governing body is imposing “special conditions” on the host nation for the events.

Stakeholders in the process to assign rights in Russia to the 2018 Fifa World Cup and the forthcoming Confederations Cup have claimed world football’s governing body is asking for too much for a deal in the host nation for the two tournaments.

Production company TVStart has agreed a deal to serve as the media partner of the Ski Classics long-distance skiing championship in Russia.