Satellite TV

Any Moscow apartment offers you 8 — 12 channels free of charge. There are Russian speaking channels which are helpful for an ex-pat wishing to learn Russian. But of course many ex-pats want to view their home programs while in Moscow. And this is easily achieved by installing Satellite TV which can offer you up to 500 channels. Installation of the necessary dish and equipment will cost, depending on the package of channels you select, from 300 to 1000 USD. For a full list of available channels, consult the following website: LyngSat

A less expensive way to receive up to 60 English, French, German, Italian, Korean and Japanese channels is to buy equipment for Cosmos TV, NTV+, Divo TV for 100 to 320 USD. In this case there is a monthly subscription fee ranging from 10 to 40 USD a month. However, about 50 per cent of apartments are already equipped with such devices, so that your expenditure will be limited to this 10 to 40 USD a month. We can recommend the following two firms, with whom we have worked for the last few year:

• Cosmos TV +7 (495) 730-0000 www.kosmostv.ru
• Akado +7 (495) 231-3333/231-4444 www.akado.ru