ORGANIZATION (Details)	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2013 Item
ORGANIZATION
Number of business segments	8
Number of television channels in Russia	3

Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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