Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of the Government Staff, Sergei Sobyanin, chaired a meeting of the Government Commission for the Development of Television and Radio Broadcasting, to consider the development of digital television in Russia
“We are planning to combine analogue and digital television at first, so as to make the switch as easy as possible for the population.” He said the stages of the switch have already been worked out, and that it would start in the country’s Far Eastern regions.
