Discovery Network Europe and Russia’s NTV Plus have officially confirmed their joint plans for the broadcasting of three digital showcase channels in the territory of Russia, the CIS countries and the Baltic States. Discovery Travel & Adventure, which increased the number of NTV channels to 24, already started in Russia on June 29. In the near future Discovery Civilisation and Discovery Sci-Trek will start broadcasting to Russia. These three channels, each broadcasting for 18 hours a day, will be put in one digital program package of NTV together with Discovery Channel Russia and Discovery Animal Planet Eastern Europe.

Evgeny Yakovich, general director of NTV Plus, said: "We are happy to represent to our viewers these Discovery channels, each of them of special interest. We hope that Discovery channels will help NTV to be even more interesting for our subscribers. All Discovery channels are being translated into Russian."