Conax said this week that Mostelecom, a subsidiary of National Telecommunications (NTK) in Russia partnered with it to provide advanced chipset pairing and CI+ technology to protect content on NCN (National Cable Networks) in more than two million homes in Moscow. Technicolor has been saying that the other half of Grass Valley, the part now called Thomson Video Networks has been sold to Fonds de Consolidation et de D’veloppement des Entreprises (FCDE), a French group which finances the recovery and development of small to medium enterprises. Effectively this is a leveraged buy- out then and is the part of the empire which offers video encoders/decoders, MPEG processors, video servers, datacasters, network management, monitoring and switching product lines and associated R&D.…