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The new platform My-HD for Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia

Source: technology.ihs.com
My-HD Media plans a launch in 2016 a package of pay channels for the Maghreb countries - Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia to the pay -TV operator in-Maghreb diversify its offer of channels throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) . We also develop platform-Asia.

The package for the Maghreb, Whose launch is scheduled for 2016 will offer viewers a total of 75 channels, of Which 46 will be available in HD. The package will also include 13 channels in the French version My-HD recently Announced That in January will launch a package of channels for the South - East Asia. After starting the platform for the Maghreb, My-HD Media will become the second largest provider of HD channels in the MENA region after the UN, which offers a total of 52 HD channels. Plans start platforms My-Asia, and My-Maghreb Clearly show My-HD Media Focuses Primarily this show Their proposals the pay -TV. According to IHS forecasts that Television Media Intelligence, My-HD Media this year will be 89 thousand. subscribers using The services on TV. In total, IHS estimates That about 260 thousand. households will have access to My-HD Media at the end of 2015. The issue for My-HD Media is the fact That the services of this operator are not offered in Egypt, the largest television market in the region. The penetration of pay TV in Egypt is less than 3 percent. at the end of 2015 years, Which shows the Possibilities for My-HD Media that Increase its subscriber base.

Russian Yukos shareholders take payments from Eutelsat

Source: rbc.ru
Executors of Yukos (the company GML) took in France for companies from Russia payments from the French company Arianespace, the satellite of rockets from French Guiana Soyuz and Ariane 5, as well as payments and (theoretically) shares of well-known Russian satellite operator Eutelsat. Recall That the tribunal in The Hague admitted the former shareholders of the Yukos oil company 50 billion. Compensation from Russia for a bankrupt Yukos. Indirectly suffer Arianespace, Eutelsat and Air France.





Debt collectors small also block the payment airline Air France to Russia's Aeroflot for the use of airspace over Siberia. Bailiffs Yukos took Companies action after 17 December 2015 when the Court of Appeal in Paris ultimately rejected Russia's request to stay enforcement of the judgment of Arbitration in The Hague, who admitted former shareholders of 50 billion dollars. compensation from Russia. Russia does not want to accept this judgment and in the middle of this year, the former shareholders of Yukos, Russia Began that occupy the property in Western Europe in the framework of the execution of the judgment from The Hague. Then bailiffs took Yukos' Russian assets in Belgium and also blocked the accounts of Russia in the French subsidiary of one of Russian banks and one bank in Austria. Interestingly, the Russians Immediately reacted victimization in Russia. On Tuesday December 22 in Russia Began raids and searches of employees foundations former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Topic Eutelsat - Proton. Satellite operator Eutelsat since 1994, has been working with Sviaz Kosmiczeskaja. The Russian company Provides Monitoring Services for Eutelsat a French satellite and management of Space Communications Center in Dubna, and in September 2011 the company extended the contract until 2017. Its financial conditions are not known. Furthermore, the Russian company has 3.39 per cent. stake in Eutelsat, but the ownership stake is being challenged in another case not associated with Yukos. In November, he was informed That the company Kosmiczeskaja Sviaz hired French lawyers that protect Their assets in connection with the Claims of former shareholders of Yukos, but no details are known. In October Space Agency, The Federal That said the US "subsidiary -" Khrunichev (enterprise Administered by Roskosmos) - International Launch Services - also signed a contract with Eutelsat on launching, the satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. In the years 2016-2023 is expected to reach ILS Proton rocket with French satellite operator. The contract value was not disclosed, but the portal Spacenews in September Estimated contract amount of exaltation only one carrier rocket Proton - M 65 million. But the head of the Space Agency of Russia, Igor Komarov in April said That The cost of launching rocket Proton - M during the year Decreased from 95 million dollars to 70 million dollars. The Representatives of Arianespace and Eutelsat did not comment on the whole affair. The representative of the Russian Space Agency declined to comment.