International Information Agency Russia Today
| Federal State Unitary Enterprise | |
| Industry | News media |
| Founded | 9 December 2013 |
| Headquarters | Zubovsky Boulevard 4, Moscow, Russia |
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Key people
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Dmitry Kiselyov Margarita Simonyan |
| Products | Wire service, international radio, internet website |
| Owner | wholly owned by the Government of Russia as a unitary enterprise |
| Subsidiaries | Sputnik, RIA Novosti (ria.ru) |
| Website | sputniknews |
Coordinates: 55°44′15.38″N 37°35′24.92″E / 55.7376056°N 37.5902556°E
Rossiya Segodnya (Russian: Россия Сегодня, tr. Rossíya Sevódnya; IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə sʲɪˈvodʲnʲə]) is a news agency wholly owned and operated by the Russian government, created by an Executive Order of the President of Russia on December 9, 2013. "Rossiya Segodnya" directly translates from Russian into English as "Russia Today", but should not be confused with the TV network RT, which was known as Russia Today prior to 2009. However, the station is sometimes referred to as "Russia Today" or the "New Russia Today" in foreign media.
Rossiya Segodnya incorporates the former RIA Novosti news service and the international radio service Voice of Russia (formerly Radio Moscow). According to the Decree of the President of Russia, the mandate of the new agency is to "provide information on Russian state policy and Russian life and society for audiences abroad."Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said that Rossiya Segodnya was being created in order to increase the cost efficiency in Russian state media. However, RIA Novosti's own report about the move speculated it was an attempt to consolidate state control over the media sector and Western news outlets stated that this was also a move by Putin to propagate a more pleasant image of Russia abroad.
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