RIA Novosti

The Russian Agency for International Information " RIA Novosti " ( German transcription: RIA Novosti ) is one of the largest news agencies in Russia. It is headquartered in Moscow and is a state since 1993. Director General was dated 24 January 2003 to December 9, 2013 Svetlana Wassiljewna Mironyuk.

The focus of the report focuses on news from Russia and the other CIS countries. As the most important criteria of their reporting calls the agency "Speed, impartiality and independence of the political economy ."

RIA Novosti to be together at the turn of 2013/2014 with foreign radio Voice of Russia to a new state "International news agency Sewodnja Rossiya " ( "Russia Today ").

Tasks

One of the tasks it also belongs to disseminate official announcements of the Russian government, ministries and departments as well as social organizations.

The agency has an extensive network of correspondents in the Russian Federation, the Commonwealth of Independent States and in more than 40 countries around the world. Every day they distributed on the Internet and via electronic means of communication socio-political, economic, scientific and information from the financial world in Russian as well as in six European languages ​​(English, German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian ), but also in Persian, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese.

RIA Novosti serves as a venue for press conferences. The agency has the nation's largest photo service and a photo bank with over 600,000 photos.

Since 2001, the German -language version of the website of RIA Novosti.

The customers of the RIA Novosti include the Presidential Administration, the Russian government and the parliament, ministries and other central departments, regional authorities but also entrepreneurs, messages and social organizations.

The target group of the Agency including foreign media companies, investment companies and banks, embassies, government and nongovernmental organizations, as well as a wide range of interested parties.

History of the Agency

1961 - during the era of Khrushchev - the Sovinformburo was in the press agency Novosti (short: APN) restructured. They became the leading information and journalism organ of Soviet society organizations. On April 3, 1961, the Statute of the Agency was adopted. Under the Articles, the APN had to spread the task of authentic information about the Soviet Union abroad and to make the Soviet public with the life of the peoples of other countries. De facto, it was up to the perestroika a propaganda tool in the Cold War.

The APN had representatives in more than 120 countries. She gave 60 illustrated newspapers and magazines in 45 languages ​​out with a total circulation of 4.3 million copies. When APN publishing over 200 books and pamphlets published with a total circulation of 20 million copies a year.

In April 1983, the Swiss Federal Council joined the Berne office of Novosti, referring to the Soviet editorial director of the country because two Swiss staff Novosti had noticed as organizers of a peace demonstration. The office in Geneva was not closed.

On 27 July 1990 showed the news agency Novosti ( IAN ) from the APN. IAN was represented in 120 countries around the world and published 13 illustrated magazines and newspapers. In September 1991, the IAN was in 'Russian News Agency ( RIA) Novosti ' renamed.

Since 1993, the RIA Novosti is a public information and analysis agency. It is as such part of the state media holding WGTRK.

On 10 August 2008, the server was hacked by RIA Novosti. This Sunday and the following day there was virtually no access many hours on the website of the news agency. Following the escalation in South Ossetia, many Georgian websites were attacked.

On 9 December 2013, the Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the dissolution of both RIA Novosti and Russia's international broadcaster Voice of Russia. In their place, a new state-run news agency with the name of " International News Agency Sewodnja Rossiya " ( "Russia Today" ) to be established. An organizational connection with the same name foreign TV channel Russia Today apparently does not exist. This measure is seen in connection with the attempt by the Russian government to influence the coverage of the Winter Olympics in February 2014 in Sochi in their favor. Other reasons for the restructuring in addition to money savings the realignment of the self-representation of Russia were in the face of rising tensions with the West called. Chief of this new state agency to the journalist Dmitry Kiselyov be. Svetlana Mironyuk has resigned as Director General on the evening of December 9, 2013.

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