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ComNews Conferences is an event & congress arm of ComNews Group, established in February 2009. The main target of ComNews Conferences is to become a leading player in telecoms & IT conference sector in Russia. ComNews is an independent group of companies with a history of leadership in the market of telecom business information in Russia and the CIS The group was established in 1998 and today consists of five companies in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, rendering publishing, research, consultancy services and running event & conference business.
ComNews has over 60 fulltime employees.
ComNews runs four regular business publications:
- a popular Internet daily publishing telecom news www.ComNews.ru (over 100,000 regular readers a month);
- a monthly business magazine Standard featuring telecom industry in Russia, the CIS, and worldwide (12 times a year, circulation 10,000 copies);
- an annual up-to-date reference book of telecom companies in Russia, Encyclopedia of Communications (circulation 10,000 copies);
- an annual collection of biographies of top-managers «Who is Who in Russian Telecoms & broadcasting» (circulation 5,000 copies).
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National association of TV &Radio Broadcasters (NAT) is Russia's largest professional non-profit association of broadcasters. The organization was founded in 1995. Today, NAT unites over 600 federal and regional companies, organizations and institutions.
NAT protects the rights and interests of broadcasters at the federal and regional levels, is involved in development of legislative base of the media and mass communications, as well as transition programs of television and radio to the new digital technology, and improving the licensing procedure for broadcasters.
The main projects and activities of NAT: International Congress «Broadcasting technologies progress», International exhibition of professional equipment and technologies for television, radio and Internet broadcasting NATEXPO, Moscow TeleShow, International Conference «Digital Russia today and tomorrow», children festivals «Vkluchaysya! (Get Switched on!)» and socially important television programs and films «The Hero of Our Time», the National Prize for satellite, cable and internet TV «Golden Ray».
The Association supports the largest events of the broadcasting industry - conferences, exhibitions, festivals, including the International: NAB in Las Vegas, IBC in Amsterdam.
NAT organizes an exhibition of domestic television industry, «The Russian house» at IBC.
NAT has initiated creation of the Digital alliance of Russia - the largest voluntary association of television industry participants under the auspices of the Ministry of Telecommunication and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. The main objective of the Alliance is coordination of the state bodies actions, scientific institutions, industrial enterprises, professional associations in the implementation of the federal program of transition to modern technologies of production and distribution of television and radio.
NAT monitors television and radio companies operating in Russia and publish results in the Atlas of Television and Radio of Russia.
NAT established the following contests: The Best TV company of the Year, The Best Radio Station of the Year, The Best System Project of the Year.
Eduard Sagalaev is the President of NAT.
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