RTVI is a global Russian-speaking multi-platform media, which includes a news website (about 4 million users per month) and other digital platforms (2.7 million subscribers): 6 YouTube channels, 2 Telegram channels and accounts in all major social networks.

In the early 2000s Kiselev sold a majority stake in the network to a group of Russian and foreign investors.

[citation needed] In April 2002, two independent broadcasters the Andrey Norkin and Vyacheslav Kriskevich associated Echo (Russian: "Эхо"), which is the television version of the radio station Echo of Moscow, and the Yevgeny Kiselyov associated TV6, which aired the program "Grani" (Russian: "Грани") by Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was an advisor to Vladimir Putin opponent Boris Nemtsov, and would rename itself as TVS, began offering their products to the NTV-International channel, which planned to change its name to RTV or "Russia Televion".

[8] Both Vyacheslav Kriskevich, who was a presenter of "Today on TV6" «Сегодня на ТВ-6», which later was renamed "Now" (Russian: «Сейчас»), and Andrey Norkin, who both had been employed by TV6, moved their support to RTV instead of TVS.

In June 2017, The channel, which planned to enter the Russian market, was relaunched with the liberal Dozhd TV's pink colors in its new logo, new presenters and editors some of which were from Dozhd or from former NTV's independent editorial board.