Kakhaber Abashidze to Become Director General of Walt Disney Company CIS

The Walt Disney Company CIS, LLC is the Russian subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company EMEA region of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International. The Walt Disney Company CIS was founded in April 2006. It is headquartered in Moscow, the capital of Russia.

Disney Channel was originally planned to launch in 2009, but a Disney Americas deal with Media-One Holdings was denied by Russian authorities.

Kakhaber Abashidze is working in Disney since 2008. He occupied a position of Vice President in the field of distribution in EMEA countries.

From the year 2014, he was leading Disney's media distribution development in Greece, Italy and other countries of East Europe.