MTV (Russian TV channel)

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MTV Russia
МТВ Россия
MTV Россия

Country	Russia
Broadcast area	Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Mongolia Tajikistan Uzbekistan
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Paramount Global
Sister channels	Nickelodeon Russia Paramount Comedy Russia
History
Launched	25 September 1998, 0:30 (original) 1 October 2013 (relaunch)
Closed	31 May 2013 (original) 28 April 2022 (in Russia) 13 December 2022 (in Belarus)[1] 15 December 2022 (in Commonwealth of Independent States)
Replaced by	MTV Europe
Links
Website	mtv.ru

MTV Russia or MTV Россия (Russian: МТВ Россия) was a Russian music and entertainment TV channel, which carried out its broadcasting from 25 September 1998 to 31 May 2013. On 1 October 2013, MTV Russia was relaunched as a satellite pay TV channel.

In March 2022, Paramount Global announced that it intends to pause operations in Russia. The company did not comment on their plans of returning in the future.^[2]