Bangladesh, May 25 -- While Russian television channel RT is facing cruel censorship and ban in a number of Western countries as well as on video-sharing platform YouTube, it has over 350 million Bengali-speaking population throughout the world and million Bengalis in Bangladesh and India. To almost all the television viewers in Bangladesh – for example, RT remains totally unknown, mostly due to two reasons – it does not have any service in Bangla, despite the fact, over 300 million people speak Bangla. Second reason is – although RT has its own set-up in India that targets Indian audiences, there is no content related to Bangladesh in RTs India edition.

It may be mentioned here that Bangla, also known as Bengali is an ...