The TV BRICS International Media Network is expanding cooperation with BRICS partner countries and is launching an information exchange with the Plurinational State of Bolivia. The first in the country to join the network’s work is the leading state television channel BOLIVIA TV. The cooperation agreement was signed by Janna Tolstikova, CEO of TV BRICS, and Julio Fernando Valdivia Rodriguez, Chief Executive Officer of BOLIVIA TV.

The agreements reached will enable Bolivia to receive the most up-to-date information on BRICS activities and provide an opportunity to present its national position in the international media field. Information materials supplied by Bolivian partners will be adapted into foreign languages by TV BRICS, published on its platforms and distributed through the media network, which already includes more than 100 media outlets from different countries worldwide.

BOLIVIA TV is the state television channel of Bolivia. It was established in 1969 by presidential decree as the country’s first television company. The headquarters of BOLIVIA TV is located in La Paz, the business capital of the state. The channel operates 11 regional branches across the country.

Janna Tolstikova, CEO of TV BRICS, noted that the inclusion of the agenda of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, which celebrates the 200th anniversary of independence, into the common BRICS+ information landscape will make it more complete and engaging.

"We are pleased to begin cooperation with Bolivia in a year of historic events for this country: the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the state’s founding and its accession to BRICS as a partner. BOLIVIA TV is the main official source of information about Bolivia and offers the national audience a rich line-up of its own programmes, which allows us to count on intensive information exchange. The topics that BOLIVIA TV raises in its reports and television projects are of great interest for the constructive agenda of TV BRICS. Particularly unique are the materials on the history, culture, traditions, and present-day situation of indigenous peoples. TV BRICS expresses its readiness to contribute to their dissemination and, for its part, will offer BOLIVIA TV viewers thematic programmes and stories about the national features of the BRICS countries and the partner states of the multicultural group"

Janna Tolstikova CEO of TV BRICS

In addition to Bolivia, media from Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Chile, and Uruguay are also cooperating with the network in Latin America. Among BRICS partner countries, TV BRICS also exchanges content with media from Belarus, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Malaysia, Thailand, and Nigeria.

In 2025, TV BRICS partnered with the 3rd Latin American Amateur Animation Festival “ANIMATEUR” and the 4th International “Lions of Fire” Film Festival, where it also organised a special screening of documentaries by filmmakers from BRICS+ countries.

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