RBC РБК
Picture format	4:3 (576i, SDTV)
Slogan	Watch to understand
Country	Russian Federation
Broadcast area	Russian Federation, CIS, Eastern Europe, Middle East, United States, Canada
Headquarters	Moscow, Russian Federation
Website	rbctv.rbc.ru

RBC TV (Russian: РБК) is the first (and so far only) 24-hour business news television channel in Russia. It is owned and operated by the RBC Information Systems. The channel was launched in September 2003 in partnership with the CNBC and CNN television channels.

Programs[link]

• "Accelerate"
• "Adrenaline"
• "Dialogue". Hosted by Michael Hazin or Sergei Aleksashekno.
• "Documentary history at RBC"
• "Foreign Business"
• "Forum". Hosted by Igor Vittel or Maria Stroeva.
• "Heroes of open markets"
• "Leisure and Tourism"
• "Live with Savik Shuster"
• "Markets"
• "Markets. A Global Perspective"
• "Markets. Interactive Edition"
• "Markets. Results of the week"
• "News"
• "Overview of the foreign press"
• "Overview of the Russian press"
• "Peace Week"
• "Salon"
• "Stardust"
• "The sphere of interest"
• "The World Today"

Past in broadcasting[link]

• "All the first"
• "AutoNews Expert"
• "AutoNews"
• "Business Books"
• "Business Style"
• "Capital"
• "C-News"
• "C-News: Technology of the Future"
• "Commercial break"
• "Companies"
• "Company News" (now published only in part of the "Markets")
• "Events"
• "In Focus"
• "Our money"
• "Our money. Interactive"
• "Person"
• "Real Estate"
• "The intrigue of the day"
• "The intrigue of the Week"
• "The intrigue of the Year"

Short Columns[link]

• "Appointments and dismissals"
• "Exchange Rates"
• "Macroeconomic Statistics"
• "Question of the Day"
• "The World Today. No Comments"
• "Weather"

References[link]

• Official website of RBC TV

This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (November 2010)

John Winsell Davies (Russian: Джон Винселл Дэйвиз), born circa 1964, is one of the three Davies sons who own the world renowned Schramsberg Vineyards (California State Historic Landmark 561) and J. Davies Winery Estates in St. Helena, Napa Valley. Founded in 1862, the winery grew in fame when President Richard Nixon toasted Chinese Secretary General Cho En-lai in The Great Hall of the People in the ground-breaking "Ping Pong Diplomacy" of 1972 and later in Moscow with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (Russian: Леонид Ильич Брежнев) in the Cold War-ending Détente Peace Accords.

Personal life[link]

After a bitter family dispute surrounding the will of their deceased father,^[1] Davies moved to Baku, Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea in 1998 and became one of the leading frontier investors of the former Soviet Union. After participating in a failed $1 Billion USD privatisation fund (as a result of the Russian Financial Crisis) which spanned the Caucasus Mountains, Caspian Basin, and through Central Asia to the Kyrgyz Republic; Davies eventually settled in Beijing, China by way of Anchorage, Alaska where he kept a low profile for some 18 months.

Davies, now married to Jelena Bobroussova-Davies manages his investments in the former Soviet Union from his Moscow Citi offices and is currently involved in the Moldavian Wine Industry, Russian Natural Gas, and Belorussian real estate among other interests. Davies is a graduate of Boston University.

Business and political dealings[link]

Davies returned to Moscow, Russia on Christmas Day of 2002 and was of the very first foreigners to invest in Georgian sovereign Lari bonds as then President Eduard Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ შევარდნაძე) was being forced from office during the "Rose Revolution".

Davies then met with now Ukrainian President, Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Андрійович Ющенко) in Kiev the spring of 2003 to discuss the impending and successful "Orange Revolution".

Davies subsequently was the very first foreign fund manager to invest in Uzbekistan financial securities when Uzbek President Islam Karimov allowed for the repatriation of foreign currencies and he has been very active in the Regional Republics ever since with both the Alfa Group and Diamond Age.

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