Russian Satellite Communications Company

Russian State Company for Satellite Communications (Russian: Подведомственное Федеральному агентству связи ФГУП Космическая связь) is the main state operator of communications satellites. On April 19, 2001, the company was granted the status of a federal unitary enterprise. The RSCC, an arm of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, is the leading Russian satellite communications operator. It is the Russian operator for the international satellite communications systems Intelsat, Eutelsat and Intersputnik, cooperating with these organizations and handling international account settlements. The company owns teleports located in Medvezhy Ozera (Russian: Медвежьи озера), Vladimir and Dubna, which ensure the transmission of channels to all five time zones in Russia via the space vehicles of RTRN. The Company began its way in February 1968 when the USSR Ministry of Communications created “Union Hub No. 9 for Radio Broadcasting and Radio Communications”<ref>