Sputnik (news agency)

Sputnik

Type	News and Media
Country	Russian Federation
Availability	Worldwide
Slogan	Telling the Untold
Owner	Rossiya Segodnya (wholly owned and operated by the Russian Government)
Launch date	10 November 2014 (2014-11-10)
Official website	sputniknews.com
Notes Alexa: 903 (Junel 2017[update]) Available in: Abkhazian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Norwegian, Ossetian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Urdu, Uzbek and Vietnamese

Sputnik (Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputʲnʲɪk]; formerly The Voice of Russia) is a news agency, news websites and radio broadcast service established by the Russian government-controlled news agency Rossiya Segodnya. Headquartered in Moscow, Sputnik has regional editorial offices in Washington, Cairo, Beijing, London and Edinburgh. It focuses on global politics and economics and is geared towards a non-Russian audience. Sputnik has been widely accused of bias, disinformation and being a Russian propaganda outlet.

Sputnik currently operates news websites, featuring reporting and commentary, in over 30 languages including English, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, and several others. The websites also house over 800 hours of radio broadcasting material each day and its newswire service runs around the clock. Alongside its news content, Sputnik also produces photo essays, live streaming, infographics, and public opinion surveys.