RIA Novosti

RIA Novosti was scheduled to be closed down in 2014; starting in March 2014, staff were informed that they had the option of transferring their contracts to Rossiya Segodnya or sign a redundancy contract. On 10 November 2014, Rossiya Segodnya launched the Sputnik multimedia platform as the international replacement of RIA Novosti and Voice of Russia. Within Russia itself, however, Rossiya Segodnya continues to operate its Russian language news service under the name RIA Novosti with its ria.ru website. The agency published news and analyses of social-political, economic, scientific and financial subjects on the Internet and via e-mail in the main European languages, as well as in Persian, Japanese and Arabic. It had a correspondent network in the Russian Federation, CIS and over 40 non-CIS countries. According to the agency, it was partially government-subsidized (2.7–2.9 billion roubles in 2013), but maintained full editorial independence. ==History==

Soviet Union RIA Novosti's history dates back to 24 June 1941, when by a resolution of the USSR Council of People's Commissars and the Communist Party Central Committee, "On the Establishment and Tasks of the Soviet Information Bureau", the state-run Soviet Information Bureau (Sovinformburo) was set up under the USSR Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee. Its main task was to oversee work covering international, military events and the events of the country's domestic life in periodicals and on the radio (from 14 October 1941, to 3 March 1942, was based in Kuibyshev – historically, Samara). In 1989, a TV center opened in APN. Later, it was transformed into the TV-Novosti TV company, Reorganization On 9 December 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the liquidation of RIA Novosti "On some measures to improve the effectiveness of the state mass media" and merging it with the international radio service Voice of Russia to create Rossiya Segodnya. Dmitry Kiselyov, a former anchorman of the Channel One Russia was appointed as president of the new information agency. According to her interview, the editor-in-chief of the TV network RT, Margarita Simonyan was completely unaware about the reorganization of the information agency and got the information from listening to competitor radio station Kommersant-FM. The reorganization created concerns that RIA Novosti would become a propaganda outlet. and online newspaper. ==Notable incidents==

On 26 February 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, RIA Novosti by mistake published an article titled "The arrival/attack of Russia and the new world" (""), which was prepared ahead of the time anticipating the Russian victory. In particular, it announced that Russia had won the Russo-Ukrainian War and that "Ukraine has returned to Russia". In the article, author Petr Akopov condemned "Anglo-Saxons who rule the West" for allegedly attempting to "steal Russian lands", described the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union as a "terrible catastrophe", and asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin's launch of the invasion resolved the "Ukrainian question" to establish a "new world order" with "Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in geopolitical terms as a single whole" against the remainder of Europe. The article was promptly removed by RIA Novosti, but not before it was republished by the state-owned news agency Sputnik and translated by the Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post into English under the title "The new world order". On 3 April 2022, RIA published "What Russia should do with Ukraine", an article condemned by some commentators for genocidal intent. In August 2022, Twitter blocked four profiles of RIA in 27 countries (but not the account itself). Twitter is banned in Russia. On July 30, 2025, RIA Novosti had an article with the heading "There is no other option: Don't let anyone remain alive in Ukraine" (Другого варианта нет: живым на Украине не должен остаться никто). Sanctions In February 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Canada placed RIA Novosti on its sanctions list. In May 2024, the European Union accused the agency of spreading propaganda and placed it on its sanctions list. ==Notable journalists==

• Vsevolod Kukushkin, ice hockey and sports correspondent (22 years) ==See also==