Streaming platforms in Russia

Amediateka is a Russian subscription service, launched on 15 June 2013 and run by A Serial LLC. The catalogue is built on imported premium drama: Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Euphoria, Billions. The subscription also opens a TV section: Amedia Premium, Amedia Hit, A1 and A2. Titles play dubbed into Russian or in the original with Russian subtitles, and the interface is Russian. Picture quality stops at Full HD, with no 4K, a gap against the Western majors. One account covers five devices, but only two streams at once. It works in exactly ten countries: Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Belarus. Elsewhere you can only preload episodes in the app and watch them within 30 days. Smart TV downloads do not work.

Ivi is one of the oldest Russian streaming services, launched on February 26, 2010 by Oleg Tumanov and Dmitry Alimov. It runs at ivi.ru under the Cyrillic name Иви, operated by OOO Ivi.ru inside the Cyprus-based holding Ivi.ru Media Limited; Nikolai Vasilkov has been CEO since April 2022. The model is hybrid: thousands of movies and shows stream free with ads, paid plans unlock new releases, and since April 2026 you choose whether ads stay. The catalog passes 100,000 titles plus 150 live TV channels; paid tiers add 4K, HDR, five devices, a PIN-locked kids profile and offline downloads. Russian and Soviet classics sit beside Turkish and Korean series, anime, documentaries, audio series, micro dramas and 44 originals (March 2026). ComNews calls Ivi the only major Russian streamer outside any ecosystem; 2024 revenue grew 38 percent. Licensing covers Russia and ten more countries in the region, {availableCount} markets in total.

KION is a Russian streaming service that pairs an on-demand catalogue with live television. It arrived in 2021 as a relaunch of MTS TV and is now run by ON Media through the Moscow company OOO KION. Subscribers get films, KION original series and more than two hundred live channels, including the federal networks, in quality up to 4K on five devices at once. The interface, content and support are Russian only, sign up needs a Russian mobile number, and the terms tie the catalogue and the TV channels to Russia, with the operator naming its own originals as the one exception that plays anywhere.

Kinopoisk started in 2003 as Russia’s answer to IMDb and only became a streaming service in July 2018, when paid viewing moved inside the broader Yandex Plus subscription. That bundling is the whole point: films and series arrive alongside music and the rest of Yandex rather than as a standalone ticket. It leads its home market with roughly a third of industry revenue. The catalogue mixes licensed international titles with Russian originals, KHL hockey and, since July 2026, a dedicated anime section. Playback reaches {maxResolution} with HDR and Dolby Atmos, and downloads work offline. Licensing keeps the service inside {availableCount} countries.

Match TV, known in Russian as Матч ТВ, is a Russian sports channel and streaming site, matchtv.ru, owned by Gazprom-Media. It launched on 1 November 2015 and rebranded in 2025 for its tenth anniversary. You can watch the main live channel on the site free and without an account; a paid tier of themed channel packages sits above it. La Liga, the Bundesliga, Serie A and the Brazilian league all sit inside the paid СПОРТ package; the channel has held the exclusive Russian La Liga rights since 2024, on a seven-year deal. Coverage of the 2026 World Cup, which ended on 19 July, was shared with Kinopoisk, exclusive broadcaster of 35 of the 104 matches. Licensing contracts with the organisers keep every stream tied to Russian IP addresses.

Okko is one of the heavyweights of Russian streaming. It launched in 2011 as Yota Play, took its current name in 2014 and is run out of Saint Petersburg. Ownership has been turbulent: Sberbank took control in 2020, then sold the service to Novye Vozmozhnosti in May 2022 after US sanctions hit the bank. It sits second at home and is known for the most prolific original-series slate in the market, from the nineties crime saga Likhie to the prison drama Autsors. Live channels and sport follow, including 2026 Winter Olympics rights. Playback reaches {maxResolution} with HDR and Dolby Atmos across {availableCount} countries.

Wink is the hybrid service of Russian operator Rostelecom, folding live TV channels and an on-demand library into a single app. It launched in October 2018 and absorbed rival more.tv in June 2023, which pushed it into the top three at home. The base package carries more than two hundred channels and tens of thousands of films and series; the premium tier widens both. Alongside licensed content it produces its own titles, among them Kholod and Pervaya raketka. Playback reaches {maxResolution} with HDR and offline downloads. The service runs inside Russia only and blocks by network operator as well as by IP address.

EuroLeague TV is the official streaming home of European basketball, operated by the league itself through Euroleague Ventures, an IMG partnership run out of Barcelona. The service carries every Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and BKT EuroCup game live and on demand, plus a deep archive of classic encounters and a round-the-clock EL 24/7 channel. There are some hard limits to know about. Coverage is fully blacked out in Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, where FloSports holds North American rights. German club matches air on a delay, with MagentaSport carrying them live, and France got the platform back as the primary route in March 2026. Access comes as an annual Season Pass.

FIAWEC+ is the official streaming home of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the global stage for long-distance motorsport. It is run jointly by the championship and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, the ACO in Le Mans, France, which means the feeds come straight from the people behind the racing. The service carries every WEC session and the complete 24 Hours of Le Mans, with onboard cameras, Live Timing Pro and a multi-season archive on top. You also get WEC Originals and the behind-the-scenes WEC Insider documentaries, all in crisp 1080p HD. There is no built-in smart-TV app, but Chromecast and AirPlay push it to the big screen.

MotoGP VideoPass is the official streaming service of the road racing world championship, operated by Dorna Sports (renamed MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group in 2026, majority-owned by Liberty Media and headquartered in Madrid). It carries every MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3 and MotoE session live, from practice and qualifying through sprints to the races themselves, across all 22 Grands Prix of the 2026 season. A six-angle Multifeed lets you switch between camera views, including onboard shots, while Multiview stacks several feeds on one screen and a deep archive reaches back to 1992. Everything streams in 1080p on the web, mobiles, tablets, and the major connected-TV platforms.

NWSL+ is the National Women’s Soccer League’s own free, ad-supported streaming app, built on Endeavor Streaming technology. Sign up with an email and you can watch live matches, replays and highlights from every game across more than 130 countries. The 2026 season grew to 16 teams, including new clubs Denver Summit FC and Boston Legacy FC. In the United States many marquee fixtures sit with partners like Prime Video and ESPN, so NWSL+ carries only the leftover live games at home. A VPN simply changes your location.

The Inner Circle is the official streaming home of ONE Championship, the Singapore-based Asian combat promotion run by Group ONE Holdings. It carries live cards across MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing and submission grappling, including the Friday-night ONE Friday Fights from Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium, ONE Fight Night events, numbered shows, plus replays and a deep archive. As of June 2026 it runs as a global subscription. Be aware that the platform applies strict VPN checks at purchase and during playback, and blacks out events where local broadcasters hold the live rights, so what you can watch live depends on the country you connect from.

Rally.TV is the official streaming home of the FIA World Rally Championship, operated by Germany’s WRC Promoter. It started life in 2014 as WRC+ and took on its current name in August 2023. Alongside the WRC itself you get the European Rally Championship, World Rallycross and the support classes WRC2, WRC3 and Junior WRC. Every special stage runs live, backed by real-time GPS tracking, onboard cameras from every car, condensed highlights and a deep archive. The 2026 season spans fourteen rounds. It works on the web, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV and Chromecast, plus there’s a free ad-supported channel, Rally.TV FAST+, on Samsung TV Plus, LG Channels, Rakuten TV and Pluto TV.

RugbyPass TV is World Rugby’s own free, ad-supported streaming service, run out of the governing body’s Dublin headquarters and launched back in August 2023, a fortnight before that year’s World Cup kicked off. There’s no fee at all; you just create a free account and start watching. The catalogue spans the men’s and women’s Rugby World Cup, WXV, the Pacific Nations Cup, the U20 Championship and HSBC SVNS sevens plus qualifiers, topped up with more than 10,000 hours of archive and World Rugby Studios originals. One catch: individual fixtures get blacked out wherever a local broadcaster holds the rights, such as Stan in Australia or Peacock in the States.

Tennis TV is the official live streaming home of the ATP Tour, men’s professional tennis, run by ATP Media out of Wimbledon in London. It carries every ATP Masters 1000, ATP 500 and ATP 250 event, plus the Nitto ATP Finals and the Next Gen ATP Finals, adding up to more than 2,500 matches a year and over 40,000 hours of replays in the archive. One subscription works across 200 plus territories, everything streams in HD, and a spoiler-free mode keeps results hidden until you press play. What you won’t find here are the four Grand Slams or the women’s WTA tour.

TrillerTV, the service once known as FITE, is a global home for combat sports and professional wrestling. It carries boxing, including the bare-knuckle promotion BKFC, which it streams exclusively, alongside MMA and the striking action of Muay Thai and kickboxing through GLORY. Wrestling fans get GCW, NJPW, TNA, MLW and ROH, most of it live as it happens. The platform runs more than 1,000 live events a year. Operated by Flipps Media under Triller Group, it is available almost anywhere, though individual cards can carry regional blackouts. You choose how to watch: a free ad-supported tier, the TrillerTV+ subscription, or a one-off pay-per-view.

UEFA.tv is UEFA’s official free streaming service, available worldwide once you create a free account. Be clear on one thing: the big live games (Champions League, Europa League, the Euros) are not shown live here, only post-match highlights. What you can watch live for free are the youth competitions (U17, U19, U21 and the Youth League), selected women’s football, futsal and the live draws, alongside an archive of classic finals, documentaries and magazine shows. The 2024 revamp brought DVR, picture-in-picture and offline downloads in up to 1080p.

VBTV (Volleyball World TV) is the official streaming service of Volleyball World, the joint venture between the FIVB and CVC Capital Partners. It carries international volleyball live and on demand: the Volleyball Nations League for men and women, the FIVB World Championships, the Beach Pro Tour, and a clutch of domestic leagues, among them Italy’s SuperLega, Poland’s PlusLiga, Japan’s SV.LEAGUE and Brazil’s Superliga. The app first launched in 2018 and was relaunched in September 2024. It is available worldwide, but matches are blacked out in markets where local broadcasters hold the rights, such as DAZN in Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan, Polsat in Poland and Globo in Brazil.

WTA TV is the Women’s Tennis Association’s own paid streaming subscription, running under WTA Ventures since 2017. It carries live WTA Tour action, from the WTA 1000, 500 and 250 tournaments through to the season-ending WTA Finals, plus replays and multi-court viewing. What it does not offer is the four Grand Slams, the men’s ATP Tour or Olympic tennis. In the major Western markets a local broadcaster holds the rights, so WTA TV is really the option for the rest of the world. Only the WTA 125 tier streams free.

WorldSBK VideoPass is the official streaming home of the Superbike World Championship, operated by the same Madrid-based outfit behind MotoGP, the MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group. It carries every WorldSBK session live and ad-free, alongside the WorldSSP Supersport class and the rest of the 2026 support package, a season that runs across twelve rounds from Phillip Island in February to Jerez in October. There is also a deep archive of classic races to dig through whenever you fancy a rewind. Two honest caveats worth knowing: each account allows only one stream at a time, and there is no dedicated Smart TV app, so you watch in a web browser or the official WorldSBK mobile app.

Twitch is a live streaming platform owned by Amazon since 2014, free to watch and paid for by ads. The streams come from users themselves: gaming is the heart of it, alongside Just Chatting and IRL channels, music, and a huge esports scene covering League of Legends, Valorant, CS2 and Dota 2. If you want extras, there are channel subscriptions, Twitch Turbo for ad-free viewing, Bits and Prime Gaming. It runs on the web, phones, smart TVs and consoles, at up to 1080p60.

Red Bull TV is the streaming service from Red Bull Media House, and it is completely free. No subscription, no paywall, no ads inside the app. It leans into action and extreme sports, with Red Bull Cliff Diving, Red Bull Rampage and the UCI Mountain Bike World Series, alongside music from live festivals, documentaries and original series like Sky Trippers, URBEX and Sheckler Sessions. You also get live event broadcasts and a 24/7 linear channel. Watch on web, mobile, smart TV and game consoles, most of it in 1080p with select titles in 4K.

Bloomberg streams live business and financial news for free. You get Bloomberg Television, whose Bloomberg TV+ feed runs in 4K, plus Bloomberg Originals, the documentary and series brand that replaced Quicktake in 2023. Expect live markets, finance, tech and talk shows. It streams free and unlimited on FAST apps like Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, The Roku Channel, Tubi and Amazon Freevee, and on YouTube. On bloomberg.com and the app the free preview caps around 15 minutes daily; full access is $34.99 a month. This is not the Bloomberg Terminal.