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  2. Television in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    By 1973, the Soviet television service had grown into six full national channels, plus republican and regional stations serving all republics and minority communities. [citation needed] A major boost to television in the Soviet Union occurred with the implementation of the Ekran system. The first Ekran satellite was launched on October 26, 1976 ...

  3. Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The following day, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union's upper chamber, the Soviet of the Republics, formally dissolved the Union. [1] The events of the dissolution resulted in its 15 constituent republics gaining full independence which also marked the major conclusion of the Revolutions of 1989 and the end of the Cold War .

  4. Soviet Central Television - Wikipedia

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    As of 1990, Soviet Central Television (Programme One, Programme Two and Moscow Programme) signed off at about 02:00 with the station ident, Clock ident, caption Do not forget to turn off the TV. Also, there was a sign off in the noon, beginning around in 1 pm and by 2:30 to 4 pm there was the second daily sign on with various news and ...

  5. History of the Soviet Union (1982–1991) - Wikipedia

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    No Miracles: The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-9910-2. OCLC 1178769176. Fischer, Ben B. A Cold War conundrum: the 1983 soviet war scare (Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1997). online; Gaidar, Yegor (19 April 2007). "The Soviet Collapse: Grain ...

  6. STS (TV channel) - Wikipedia

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    November 2019 - the HD version of the TV channel started broadcasting. [7] Today STS broadcasts a mix between Russian productions and international programming of interest to its target audience, viewers aged 10–45, [8] especially younger audiences. Approximately 100 million people are within STS's signal reach.

  7. Revolutions of 1989 - Wikipedia

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    The earliest recorded protests to be part of the Revolutions of 1989 began in Kazakhstan, then part of the Soviet Union, in 1986, with student demonstrations, [9] [10] and the last chapter of the revolutions ended in 1996, when Ukraine abolished the Soviet political system of government, adopting a new constitution which replaced the Soviet-era ...

  8. Orbita (TV system) - Wikipedia

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    The Orbita system is based on communication satellites in highly elliptical Molniya orbits, as well as on many ground downlink TV stations for reception and relaying TV signals to antennas of TV sets of many local areas. The full deployment of the Orbita satellite system took place on 25 October 1967, when ground downlink stations of some ...

  9. Television in Russia - Wikipedia

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    In 1991, the Soviet era Gosteleradio state system included six national television channels, 52 stations in the former Soviet republics and 78 regional stations in the Russian Federation. Today, there are about 15,000 transmitters in the country. Development of domestic digital TV transmitters, led within "Multichannel" research program, had ...