RAFA presented an overview of the current animation market at the CSTB.PRO.MEDIA forum

Within the framework of the CSTB.PRO.MEDIA-2025 forum, a panel discussion was held on the topic ‘Leaders of Russian animation. Producers who Create Brands & Brands that Producers create’, organized by the RAFA.  The moderator of the discussion was RAFA CEO Irina Mastusova.

The discussion was attended by Marina Pikuleva, Director of Special Research at Mediascope, Yulia Osetinskaya, General Producer of Soyuzmultfilm Studio, Anton Smetankin, Parovoz studio CEO, Albina Mukhametzyanova, CEO and general producer of YARKO company, Yulia Nemchina, Riki Group CEO, ITSALIVE CEO Roxana Bushkova, Daria Ilyina, editor-in-chief of the O! TV channel, Commercial Director of CTB Film Company and the Melnitsa licensing agency Lyudmila Tsoi, CTC Media CEO of Animation Department,  Anna Tarada, Anna Shelegina, CEO of the Platoska animation studio.

The speakers discussed the current state of the Russian animation market. Among them were representatives of major studios and producers of young companies that had recently entered the market but had already achieved significant success.