RIA Novosti

RIA Novosti is a Russian state-owned news agency publishing primarily in Russian. Part of the state media group Rossiya Segodnya, it provides extensive domestic and international news coverage and is generally aligned with official Russian government positions. As a major state agency, it is one of the country's principal sources of breaking news.

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RIA Novosti at a glance

Country: Russia
Region: Central and Eastern Europe · Europe
Kind of outlet: News agency
Editorial leaning: Right-leaning
Founded: 1941
Owner: Rossiya Segodnya (state)
Published from: Moscow
Website: ria.ru ↗
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How Crosswire groups RIA Novosti

Crosswire groups RIA Novosti as Right-leaning for comparisons within Russia's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Russia, Meduza is listed as Left-leaning, while Kommersant and Moskovsky Komsomolets are listed as Centrist — so you can open RIA Novosti beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where RIA Novosti sits in Russia's press

RIA Novosti was founded in 1941, is published from Moscow and is owned by Rossiya Segodnya (state). It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Russia, and one of 2 news agencies among them — the other being TASS. By outlets tracked, Russia ranks 25th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 6 of the 51 news agencies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to RIA Novosti outside Russia, starting with Central and Eastern Europe, are UNIAN (Ukraine), BelTA (Belarus) and ANSA (Italy). Opening one of them beside RIA Novosti is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.