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Ria Novosti

FSUE Russian Agency of International Information «RIA Novosti»
(FSUE RAMI «RIA Novosti»)
Federal State Unitary Enterprise
Industry News media
Successor Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik, ria.ru
Founded June 1941 (1941-06) (as Sovinformburo)
Defunct 1 April 2014
Headquarters Zubovsky Boulevard 4, Moscow, Russia
Key people
Svetlana Mironyuk
Products Wire service
Owner Rossiya Segodnya (previously wholly owned by federal government (as unitary enterprise))
Website http://ria.ru/ (Russian version) http://sputniknews.com (English version)

Coordinates: 55°44′15.38″N 37°35′24.92″E / 55.7376056°N 37.5902556°E / 55.7376056; 37.5902556

RIA Novosti (Russian: РИА Новости), sometimes shortly RIA (Russian: РИА) was Russia's international news agency until 2013 and continues to be the name of a state-operated domestic Russian-language news agency. Operating under the purview of the Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, RIA Novosti is headquartered in Moscow and operated about 80 bureaus internationally. On 9 December 2013 President of Russia Vladimir Putin ordered RIA Novosti's liquidation and the creation of a Russian international news agency Rossiya Segodnya.Dmitry Kiselev, an anchorman of the Russia-1 channel was appointed to be the first president of the new information agency. 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 accepting voluntary redundancy. 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.


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