Russian Government Commissions

Government Commission on the Development of Television and Radio Broadcasting

Vladislav
Surkov
Chairman of the Commission on Radio and Television Broadcasting

APPROVED

by Government Resolution No. 304

of May 22, 2006

The Commission is a coordinating agency set up to ensure the coordinated efforts of the federal bodies of executive authority in the development of radio and television broadcasting. 

The Commission has the following responsibilities:

  • to set priorities in the attainment of the main objectives in the development of radio and television broadcasting with due regard for economic, financial and other possibilities of the state;

  • to coordinate the efforts of the federal bodies of executive authority to preserve the common information space and facilitate the creation of radio and television programmes and the broadcasting infrastructure;

  • to draft proposals on the improvement of legislation for the development of radio and television broadcasting;

  • other tasks in this sphere.

Members:

Government Commission on the Development of Television and Radio Broadcasting

Vladislav Surkov: Deputy Prime Minister, Chief of Staff of the Government Executive Office (Chairman of the Commission);

Nikolai Nikiforov: Minister of Communications and Mass Media (Deputy Chairman of the Commission);

Margarita Avdeyeva: Deputy Director of the Government Department of the Press Service and Information;

Nikolai Andrianov: First Deputy Head of the Technical Research Service at the Federal Security Service;

Sergei Belyakov: Deputy Minister of Economic Development;

Valery Butenko: Director General Radio Research Institute, Federal State Unitary Enterprise of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour;

Alexei Gromov: First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office (external advisor);

Oleg Dobrodeyev: General Director of the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company;

Oleg Dukhovnitsky: Head of the Federal Communications Agency;

Alexander Zharov: Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media;

Andrei Ivanov: Deputy Minister of Finance;

Anatoly Lysenko: Director General, Public Television of Russia (to be confirmed);

Denis Manturov: Minister of Industry and Trade;

Alexander Ordzhonikidze: General Director of the National Media Group (external advisor);

Nikolai Pankov: State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Defence;

Dmitry Peskov: Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office, the President’s Press Secretary (external advisor);

Yury Prokhorov: General Director of the Russian Satellite Communications Company;

Andrei Romanchenko: General Director of the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Network;

Eduard Sagalayev: President of the National Association of Television and Radio Broadcasters (external advisor);

Nikolai Senkevich: General Director of Gazprom-Media Holding (external advisor);

Mikhail Seslavinsky: Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media;

Denis Sverdlov: Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media;

Natalya Timakova: the Prime Minister’s Press Secretary, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government Executive Office;

Alexei Volin: Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media;

Alan Uzhegov: Director of the Department of Information of the Audit Chamber (external advisor);

Igor Shchegolev: Presidential Aide (external advisor);

Konstantin Ernst: General Director of Channel One on Russia television (external advisor);

Alexander Yakunin: Director of the Department of the Radio Electronics Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.  

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