Energy Russia is a private Russian radio station, created in 2006 based in Moscow, and is the Russian version of the French NRJ.
On March 8, 2003, Radio Energy was created by the Prof Media group (formerly under Interros and now under Gazprom-Media), and then dedicated to dance, house and trance music.
[citation needed] The station also used to host numerous dance music festivals every year, the most famous being 'Energiya Megadance'.
[citation needed] In April 2006 the average daily number of listeners was 529,000, or a 5.6% of the total number of listeners in the Moscow Region, according to Prof Media/VKPM.
[citation needed] On 1 September 2006, the Prof Media group accepted to rebrand its station Radio Energy, to become the French NRJ brand, which also has other versions internationally.