Saturday 25th March 2006:
Russian TV station STS TV has bought Series 1 (and apparently Series 2) of the new Doctor Who. Series 1 will air weekday afternoons at 4:30PM starting this Monday, 27 March. Thank you to Oleg from Moscow for the news - didn't BBC Worldwide used to do press releases when countries bought the show?

I don't know how STS handles the time zones in Russia.

A weekday run may sound a tad unusual when they only have 13 episodes to play with right now (14 if they've gotten The Christmas Invasion), but they've handled western drama this way before (Babylon 5 was premiered in a weekday script if I remember the information in the Lurker's Guide correctly).

If you can read Russian, you might check out STS Doctor Who mini-website - http://www.ctc-tv.ru/series/DoctorWho .