[1][2] The decision to establish an international broadcasting company was signed on 20 March 1992 in Kyiv by the presidents Boris Yeltsin, Stanislav Shushkevich, Leonid Kravchuk, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Askar Akayev, Rahmon Nabiyev, Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Mircea Snegur.

[citation needed] 9 October 1992 and is considered the starting point of the company's history, when an agreement was signed in Bishkek on the establishment of Mir.

[3] The co-founders of the television and radio company were ten former USSR countries, namely Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Moldova (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Turkmenistan and Ukraine were absent from the former union republics).

[citation needed] The Mir TV channel introduces viewers to the modern life and history of the countries of the former Soviet Union, and forms cultural, social and economic ties.

Live broadcasts of summits, press conferences and speeches by top officials of the state, as well as national and religious holidays and major sporting events appear on the channel.

[11] On 28 February 2022, in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Latvia banned the retransmission of Mir 24 in its territory for 5 years due to a perceived threat to its national security.

News from the CIS countries and the world attract more than 220 thousand people daily, and the monthly number of views exceeds 9 million.

[citation needed] Broadcasting of Mir is carried out on the territory of all countries of the former Soviet Union (the exceptions are non-members of the CIS, namely Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Georgia).

It reaches the following audience:[citation needed] In July 2020, the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan criticized the review of the weather forecast on the air of the Mir TV.