Eutelsat
Also known as: Eutelsat Communications
LeaveRussia detail: Suspension
Eutelsat is a French satellite operator. Providing coverage over the entire European continent, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas, it is the world's third-largest satellite operator in terms of revenues.
Business in Russia
Russian DTH operators FSUE Kosmicheskaya Svyaz, NTV Plus and Tricolor TV use the Eutelsat 36B satellite. The company gets 6% of revenue from Russia. Eutelsat said in a statement it had now ended all involvement in the broadcast of three Russian channels, Rossiya One, Pervyi Kanal and NTV, after France's Arcom television regulator urged the company to do so. Eutelsat group still refuse to implement EU sanctions against Russian media groups (VGTRK, National Media Group, Zvezda (Russian Army) and SPAS (Orthodox Chruch). The company claims that it needs ordrer frrom the French authority Arcom (which is legally untrue as EU sanction are of immediate effect). The ARcom does not move despite a new law (21.5.2024) which give to it competences to act. See https://denisdiderot.net
Decision trail
Decision date 17/03/2026 · Reference ↗
The French regulator has said Eutelsat must cut ties with NTV Mir. It is claimed Russia was Eutelsat's second biggest client last year. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked France’s broadcasting regulator, ARCOM, to order French TV satellite operator Eutelsat to stop carrying three Russian TV channels that are spearheads of the Kremlin’s war propaganda. French campaigners and Ukrainian activists have demanded Eutelsat, a Paris-listed satellite business in which the UK holds a 10pc stake, immediately halt transmissions of dozens of Russian channels. Revenue decreased in 2024 vs 2023 by more than -20%. European satellite company Eutelsat has terminated its lease of power from two Russian satellites after one was lost and the other is due to change orbit. On March 4, the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) said its geostationary (GSC) telecommunications satellite Express-AT1 had ceased operating without explanation. The satellites were serviced under a power contract with Eutelsat throughout the post-invasion sanctions era, but the company has decided to terminate that contract, even though Express-AT2 continues to operate.
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Status history since 2022
- 03/08/2026 — suspended · Imported from KSE LeaveRussia
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