Georgia is in talks with U.S. companies...

The broadcasts of First Caucasian, which was launched in mid-January via Eutelsat"s satellite, stopped at the end of last week. Tbilisi accused the French operator of bowing to Russian censorship demands. The firm strongly denied the charge.

The channel targeted audiences throughout the Caucasus, including in Russia"s troubled republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan, as well as the former Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, recognized by Moscow as independent states.

Georgia"s public broadcaster, which incorporates the channel, is holding talks with U.S. firms on broadcasts in Russian territory via their satellites, Kommersant said.

"We are in talks with American operators, with several of them, but I have no right to disclose our partners" names or give contract volumes before the talks are completed," First Caucasian director Zurab Dvali told the daily.

"We hope the Americans will not bow to Gazprom," another official at the channel

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