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CMG and VGTRK Sign Documentary Cooperation Deal
On May 20, 2026, during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state visit to Beijing, China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台) president Shen Haixiong (慎海雄) and All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (全俄國家電視廣播公司) director general Oleg Dobrodeyev signed an agreement to deepen cooperation on documentaries and feature reporting, witnessed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin. According to Chinese state media, the agreement covers news coverage, program production, content exchange, joint events and personnel exchange between the two broadcasters, part of a wider package of Russia-China agreements signed that day spanning science, education, film, and youth exchange. The deal follows a similar memorandum VGTRK signed with CMG during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Russia in May 2025, part of a broader pattern in which Russian and Chinese state and private media outlets have signed at least 14 partnership agreements since 2022, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a non-partisan US-based think tank. All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, known by its Russian acronym VGTRK, is Russia’s state-owned television and radio broadcaster.
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