24/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Russian version of the 24 hour European news channel Euronews will be launched in September 2001 in all the Muscovite homes and is the fruit of a partnership between the Russian State channel; RTR and Euronews. The latter will recruit 16 Russian journalists to produce a new linguistic version from the Euronews headquarters in Lyon (France). Euronews is available in more than 100 million homes throughout Europe. Launched in January 1993, it is distributed by cable, satellite and radio broadcast in six languages.