the Board of Directors Mediascope (formerly TNS Russia) has extended for the next three years the authority of Ruslana Tagieva, the post of General Director of ZAO “TNS Gallup Media”, according to the company.

directs Tagiev TNS since 1994. Until 2008 the company was the structure of the Gallup, and then bought it at the global level, the British communication holding WPP. She went into his research the structure of Kantar.

the Board of Directors of JSC “Mediastop” (the new name of legal entity meter) headed by Angelo Codignoni, the former adviser to the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Sources of the newspaper “Vedomosti” argue that Cordiani was in talks with WPP about selling TNS Russian “polls-media”. Since 2011, the current Chairman of the Board of Directors Mediascope is a co-chair of the Board of Directors “STS media”.

the Board of Directors of the unified teleseriala also included the General Director of “VCIOM-media” Alexey Malinin, the representative of WPP and a former marketing Director of Procter&Gamble, Central Europe and Central Asia Lada Kudrova. Malinin is also known for his previous activity in the Russian media industry: he served as Deputy Minister of communications and mass communications, was Deputy Director of VGTRK, RTRS directed, was part of the Board of Directors of NTV, and also acted as adviser to the head of the holding “Gazprom-media”. In 2013, the head of “VCIOM-media” also became part of the Board of Directors of “Rostelecom”.

the position of independent Director of Mediascope appointed Natalia Yakovleva from PwC where she leads the practice in providing services to companies in the entertainment industry and the media.

Today, Roskomnadzor summed up the contest for the choice of a single national teleseries. They, as expected, was Mediascope. For the right to become the authorized organization also fought the research holding Romir, MediaHills the company and GS Group (the technical partner of the “Tricolor TV”). The winner of the contest will measure the Russian audience of viewers in the next three years.

read More about the results of the competition of Roskomnadzor read here.