Russian International Information Agency RIA Novosti (FGUP RAMI RIA Novosti) is a former media group and one of the largest news agencies in the world with headquarters in Moscow, now the brand of MIA Rossiya Segodnya. The main principles of its activities RIA Novosti proclaims "efficiency, objectivity, independence from the political environment."
The Russian International Information Agency RIA Novosti (FSUE RAMI RIA Novosti) is a former media group and one of the largest news agencies in the world with headquarters in Moscow, now the MIA Rossiya Segodnya brand. Since June 8, 2014 it has been a news agency and online publication.
The media group and the RIA Novosti agency were disbanded by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin "On some measures to improve the efficiency of the state mass media" dated December 9, 2013. According to the decree, the International News Agency "Russia Today" was created instead of the liquidated RIA Novosti.
In addition to the agency of the same name, RIA Novosti included the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information (RAPSI), the R-Sport Sports News Agency, the PRIME Economic Information Agency, the RIA Rating Agency, the Russian Science and Technology Information Agency RIA Science”, Moscow News Publishing House, a network of media centers in Russia and abroad, as well as more than 40 Internet resources in 22 languages with an aggregate audience at the time of liquidation of more than 20 million unique visitors per month.
The editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti at the time of liquidation was Svetlana Mironyuk, who had been heading the agency since 2003.
History
The latest operational summary of the Sovinformburo
The Russian news agency RIA Novosti has been leading its history since June 24, 1941. It was then, on the basis of the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) "On the creation and tasks of the Soviet information bureau", the Sovinformburo was created. In the future, the structure was consistently transformed, changing the name, goals and subordination. First to the Novosti Press Agency, then to the Novosti Information Agency, then to the Novosti Russian Information Agency and then to the Vesti Russian Information Agency.
On April 1, 2004, after amendments were made to the constituent documents, the structure received the name and status of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian International Information Agency "RIA Novosti"
Sovinformburo
Two days after the start of the Great Patriotic War, on June 24, 1941, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR issued a decree "On the creation and tasks of the Soviet Information Bureau." The tasks of the agency included compiling reports for radio, newspapers and magazines about the situation at the fronts, the work of the rear, about the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War.
In 1944, a special bureau for propaganda to foreign countries was created as part of the Sovinformburo. Through 1,171 newspapers, 523 magazines and 18 radio stations in 23 countries of the world, Soviet embassies abroad, friendship societies, trade union, women's, youth and scientific organizations, the Sovinformburo introduced readers and listeners to the struggle of the Soviet people against fascism, and in the postwar period - to the main directions of domestic and foreign policy of the Soviet Union.
The Sovinformburo was reformed into the Novosti Press Agency (APN) by a decree of the CPSU Central Committee of January 5, 1961.
News Agency
On February 21, 1961, the Novosti Press Agency (APN) was created on the basis of the Sovinformburo. The agency became the leading information and journalistic body of Soviet public organizations. The founders of the APN: the Union of Journalists of the USSR, the Union of Writers of the USSR, the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the Knowledge Society.
In accordance with the charter, the APN had as its goal "by wide dissemination abroad of truthful information about the USSR and by familiarizing the Soviet public with the life of the peoples of foreign countries, to promote mutual understanding, trust and friendship among peoples in every possible way." APN offices were located in more than 120 countries. The agency published 60 illustrated newspapers and magazines in 45 languages with a one-time circulation of 4.3 million copies.
Together with the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies, the APN published the Moscow News newspaper, which since September 1990 has become an independent publication. APN Publishing House published more than 200 books and brochures with a total circulation of about 20 million copies per year. The agency's copyright assets included more than 7 thousand people. Such famous journalists as Genrikh Borovik, Vladimir Simonov, Gennady Gerasimov, Vladimir Pozner, Vladimir Molchanov, Vitaly Tretyakov and others worked for APN. Along with Soviet authors, foreign writers, journalists and public figures collaborated with the agency.
In 1989, a television center was opened in APN, which was later transformed into the TV-Novosti television company. On July 27, 1990, the Novosti Information Agency was created on the basis of the APN.
News agency "News"
On July 27, 1990 in accordance with the Decree of the President of the USSR M. S. and foreign policy of the USSR and proceeding from the interests of democratization of the media”. On August 25, the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR approved the "Regulations on the Information Agency" Novosti "(IAN)". By a decree of August 26, 1991, the agency was transferred to the jurisdiction of the RSFSR.
The tasks of the IAN remained the same: preparation and distribution in the USSR and abroad of printed, television and radio materials; the study of public opinion in the country and abroad on the foreign and domestic policy of the USSR. At IAN, a computer data bank was created, which initially contained more than 250 thousand units of documents. Since 1991, the Infonews news feed has been published. IAN offices were located in 120 countries. IAN published 13 illustrated magazines and newspapers.
RIA Vesti and RIA Novosti
In September 1991, on the basis of the IAN, the Russian news agency Novosti was created. By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 22, 1991, RIA Novosti was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Press and Information. The Novosti news agency had about 80 foreign bureaus and correspondent points, more than 1,500 subscribers in the CIS countries and about 100 abroad. On the basis of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 15, 1993 “On the Russian Information Agency“Novosti””, RIA “Novosti” became a state information and analytical agency. In 1996 the radio channel RIA Novosti - RIA Radio worked. In August 1997, on the basis of the RIA TV channel, under the founding of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, the Culture TV channel was created.
In May 1998, on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation B. N. at the same time, the well-known brand RIA Novosti is in the news media. In 2001, RIA Novosti disclosed news information on the agency's website.
On December 23, 2003, by a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, the RIA Vesti agency was removed from the VGTRK and subordinated directly to the Ministry of Press. From April 1, 2004, in connection with the state registration of changes made to the constituent documents, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Information Agency "Vesti" was renamed into the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian International Information Agency "RIA Novosti" (abbreviated - FSUE RAMI "RIA Novosti ").
RIA News
In January 2003, Svetlana Mironyuk became the chairman of the board of RIA Novosti; in April 2004, she took over as CEO. In 2006, Svetlana Mironyuk became the editor-in-chief of the agency. In 2007, RIA Novosti adopted a multimedia development strategy.
The agency created studios for infographics (later - Design Center RIA Novosti) and video information. As part of the new strategy, the agency focused on multimedia formats: photo and video clips, infographics, video panoramas, interactive videos and projects, live broadcasts, games, projects in the web documentary format (films that provide the reader with the opportunity to independently choose the order and logic of viewing) and others.
Another key area of RIA Novosti's development during this period was the transformation of the agency into a media holding. In 2008, RIA Novosti regained the Moskovskie Novosti brand, which the agency had lost in 1990. In 2009, RIA co-founded the RAPSI legal information agency, in 2011 acquired the PRIME economic information agency, created the Social Navigator social research agency, in 2012 created the RIA Rating agency, the R-Sport sports information agency and the Russian information agency of science and technology "RIA Nauka". <Within the framework of the multimedia strategy, educational projects were created on the basis of the RIA Novosti press center: Lektoria, RIA Art, Scientific Monday, Open Show and others; social projects "Diagnosis which is not" - a project about autistic children, "Life without barriers", "Children in trouble", "Life without drugs".
In addition to using new media, RIA Novosti initiated the creation and organizer of a number of expert platforms, the main of which were the Valdai International Discussion Club, urban forums Smart City of the Future, Cluster Summit, as well as a forum on global media development trends and journalism Future Media Forum.
In September 2011, the IOC granted the status of a special authorized news agency of the Olympics (national host agency and national photo pool) to the RIA Novosti Group, which includes the R-Sport sports news agency. In March 2013, RIA Novosti was given the status of a national host agency and a photo pool for the Paralympic Games in Sochi. Following the coverage of the Olympic Games, the IOC gave the highest assessment to the work of RIA Novosti.
Liquidation of RIA Novosti media holding
On December 9, 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On some measures to improve the efficiency of the state media." According to the text of the decree, the RIA Novosti agency was liquidated, the rights of the founder and property rights were transferred to the International News Agency "Russia Today". Dmitry Kiselev has been appointed General Director of the new structure. The same decree liquidated the Russian state radio broadcasting company "Voice of Russia", the property of the company also passed to "Russia Today".
The main activity of the federal "Russia Today", according to the decree, is the coverage of the state policy of the Russian Federation and public life in Russia for a foreign audience. The key leader of the created agency is the general director, who is appointed and dismissed by the President of the Russian Federation.
The head of the Kremlin administration, Sergei Ivanov, explaining the purpose of the reorganization, said that the creation of the Rossiya Segodnya MIA is aimed at solving two problems - rational use of budget funds and increasing the efficiency of state media. As Ivanov emphasized in his conversation with journalists, “Russia is pursuing an independent policy, firmly defending its national interests; it is not easy to explain this to the world, but it can and should be done."
Dmitry Kiselev, General Director of Rossiya Segodnya, commenting on the creation of the agency and his appointment, outlined the goal of the new structure - to restore a fair attitude towards Russia. "Restoring a just attitude towards Russia as an important country in the world with good intentions is the mission of the new structure, which I have to lead."
The liquidation of RIA Novosti and the creation of Rossiya Segodnya caused widespread discussion in the media. So, commenting on the decree, the journalists noted that against the background of the reduction in state investment in RIA Novosti in recent years, other state information assets - ITAR-TASS, federal TV channels (Channel One, VGTRK, NTV, Russia Today), no decrease in state support felt.
The effectiveness of RIA Novosti was also widely discussed. As Radio Svoboda noted, “… of all the news agencies of the Big Three, RIA Novosti looked the most modern, or at least trying to be. While ITAR-TASS continued to delight subscribers with sketches from the life of the decaying West in the style of the 70s that appeared on the tape, and Interfax remained only a supplier of operational news for other media without any attempts to become such, in RIA Novosti “the department of modern media technologies and infographics was actively developing”. As a separate subsidiary project, the Agency for Legal and Judicial Information successfully existed, which in recent years has conducted live text and video broadcasts of all significant trials - from the Pussy Riot case to the Kirovles and Alexei Navalny case.
On December 16, 2013, the liquidation commission led by Dmitry Kiselyov appointed Irakli Gachechiladze to the post of editor-in-chief of the abolished structure, who at the same time served as deputy editor-in-chief of the Russia Today TV channel Margarita Simonyan.
On December 31, 2013, Dmitry Kiselev announced his decision to appoint Margarita Simonyan as editor-in-chief of Russia Today. At the same time, she retains her position at RT.
On March 6, 2014, the editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti, Irakli Gachechiladze, announced the end of the transition period - according to him, the agency is ready to be transformed into MIA Rossiya Segodnya, the work on the staffing table is almost complete and people are being transferred. Earlier, the online edition Slon.ru reported that according to a letter he had sent to the agency's correspondents by the head of the agency's corset Andrei Piskunov, out of 150 RIA Novosti correspondents in the regions, only 20 people will continue to work for the new agency, out of 69 regional points only nineteen.
On March 21, 2014, the editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya, Margarita Simonyan, announced that after the liquidation of RIA Novosti, the economic information agency PRIME will become a division of ITAR-TASS, and RAPSI will acquire the status of an autonomous non-profit organization that will independently seek funding.
On June 8, 2014, RIA Novosti was registered by Roskomnadzor as a news agency and online publication.
The structure of RIA Novosti
RIA Novosti news agency
The main function of RIA Novosti is to provide operational political, economic, social, cultural information to the editorial offices of newspapers, magazines, television, radio broadcasting, as well as other institutions, organizations, individuals who are subscribers to its products.
RIA Novosti's clients were the Presidential Administration and the Government of Russia, parliament, ministries and other federal agencies, regional authorities, as well as representatives of business circles, diplomatic missions, and public organizations.
The target audience of the agency also covered foreign media, commercial structures, investment companies and banks, embassies, government and state organizations, as well as a wide range of interested parties.
RIA.ru
RIA.ru is one of the largest news resources in Europe. Until 2014, he published materials in 9 languages - Russian, English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Persian, Chinese and Japanese. The rubricator included sections of politics, society, economics, news about world events, accidents, safety, sports, science and technology news, culture. Also, as an independent project on ria.ru, there was Weekend, which published reviews and reviews of cultural events.
The mission of the resource is to tell about events in Russia and the world in a balanced and objective way using a variety of formats - text, photography, video (traditional, panoramic and interactive), live broadcasts, infographics, ratings, comments from experts and opinion leaders, and so on.
RIA.ru is one of the first resources in Russia to offer personalization and geo-targeting (news localization by regions) - St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don.
R-Sport
Sports news agency R-Sport is the first specialized and most cited sports agency in Russia, created specifically to cover the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi. The agency was created on the basis of the sports edition of RIA Novosti in 2012. Broadcasting is carried out in two languages - Russian and English. Since its inception, R-Sport was headed by Vasily Konov, who moved to RIA Novosti from the sports editorial office of Channel One, but in 2017 Alexander Kalmykov was appointed the new editor-in-chief, and Konov returned to Channel One.
R-Sport provides specialized media and the general reader with sports photos, infographics, interviews and expert comments, detailed game statistics, ratings, text broadcasts of sports events, as well as special projects dedicated to the largest sports events of the world level.
RAPSI
The Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information (abbreviated: RAPSI) is the first legal information agency in Russia, established on February 10, 2009 by RIA Novosti, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation for professional coverage of the activities of the judicial system and the life of the judicial community in Russia. Broadcasting is carried out in two languages - Russian and English. The chief editor of RAPSI is Oleg Efrosinin.
Participation in the project of the country's highest courts allowed RAPSI to provide social and political media and mass users with exclusive information in a convenient and understandable format: live broadcasts of court hearings, expert comments and educational materials targeted at the general public.
During her work, she conducted video broadcasts from a number of high-profile court hearings, in particular, the Mirzaev case, the Pussy Riot case, the trial of Alexei Navalny, and the second Khodorkovsky case.
As part of the liquidation of RIA Novosti, RAPSI will acquire the status of an autonomous non-profit organization that will independently seek funding
Moscow news
Moskovskie novosti - since 2011, the city's daily newspaper and website for the "new intelligentsia", which tells about the trends that, emerging in the capital, spread throughout the country. The newspaper tells stories, creates an image of the city through people. Thematic tabs for the newspaper "Big Politics" and "Big Economy" expand the agenda due to materials about events at the federal level.
The Moscow News
The Moscow News is the oldest Russian newspaper in English, published since October 5, 1930. Founded by American socialist Anna Louise Strong. It was closed in 1949, the editor-in-chief Mikhail Borodin was convicted in the case of the "Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee". It began to appear again under the auspices of the APN since 1956.
Since 2007, The Moscow News has been published with the participation of RIA Novosti. It was the largest in circulation weekly English-language newspaper for foreigners and expats. In early 2014, the publication of the paper and electronic version of the publication was terminated by the decision of the liquidation commission of RIA Novosti.
Economic Information Agency "PRIME"
PRIME is one of the first economic information agencies in Russia. It was acquired by RIA Novosti in 2011 from structures of the Eurofinance group. In partnership with global agency Dow Jones Newswires, the agency has produced news products for professional financiers in the international currency, equity and commodity markets.
PRIME was the official publisher and distributor of the Bank of Russia Bulletin and the Banking Statistics Bulletin. The agency was authorized by the Financial Markets Service of the Bank of Russia to disseminate information disclosed on the securities market.
The agency's clients were Kommersant, Vedomosti, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Banki.ru, Gazeta. Ru, RBC daily, Expert magazine, and such financial institutions as Sberbank, Bank of Russia, Alfa-Bank, Polyus Gold "," VTB "," VTB 24 "," Beeline "," Citibank ", AFK" Sistema ", OJSC" Bank Otkrytie "," Ingosstrakh "," Globex Bank "," MDM Bank "," Nomos Bank "," RosBank "," Uralsib "," All-Russian Bank for Regional Development "and others.
As part of the liquidation of RIA Novosti, the PRIME economic information agency will transfer to ITAR-TASS
RIA Rating
RIA Rating is a rating agency specializing in assessing the state of companies, regions, banks, industries and credit risks. The agency was established in December 2011 on the basis of the RIA Analytica Center for Economic Research of RIA Novosti; RIA Rating began its public activities in June 2012.
The rating agency specialized in assigning credit and reliability ratings to banks, enterprises, regions, municipalities, insurance companies, securities, and other economic entities. The agency also provided services for assessing the investment attractiveness of enterprises, developing business plans, strategies for the development of regions and municipalities, strategies for developing companies, analyzing industries according to various criteria, and comprehensive economic research.
RIA Science
RIA Nauka is a Russian information agency for science and technology (RIANT), established on September 11, 2013 on the basis of RIA Novosti. The main task of the agency is to inform the Russian and foreign audience about the state and achievements of world science and technology. The editor-in-chief of RIA Nauka is Andrey Reznichenko.
The agency specializes in disseminating information about science and technology: scientific achievements, fundamental and applied research, technological developments, innovative products and services in Russia and abroad.
In 2013, RIA Nauka became the first laureate of the Sergei Petrovich Kapitsa Prize for the Popularization of Science and Technology.
In Moscow
In Moscow, there is an information and service resource created in 2012. The project is designed to help a resident of Moscow find out, find and choose correctly what he needs to live in the capital - information about legal and government institutions, weather, traffic jams, the schedule of the city's entertainment establishments, and more.
You are a reporter
You are a reporter is a RIA Novosti project created in April 2010 to develop citizen journalism in Russia. For four years of work, more than 6,000 participants from Russia, the CIS, Europe and the USA have joined it.
The project was awarded several professional awards: "Runet Prize" in the category of culture and mass communications in 2010; international award WSA Mobile in the category "Media and News" in 2010; and a finalist diploma for the IBC2011 Innovation Awards in the 2011 Content Creation nomination.
RIA Novosti Ukraine
Information partner of the agency "Russia Today" in Ukraine.
Services
News terminal
RIA Novosti information terminal is a paid service providing quick access to more than 50 information products of the RIA Novosti media group. With the help of the service, the media, financial institutions and other clients of the agency could get access to urgent news, information messages, announcements of events in Russia and the world.
The main advantages for the clients of the terminal, in comparison with receiving information through the agency's website, were speed, a wide range of settings for organizing information, a developed notification system, and a lightweight interface. In addition, the service provided statistics on the number of materials on a given topic, the rating of mentioning of individuals and companies.
Visualrian
Visualrian.ru is a professional service for searching and buying multimedia materials from RIA Novosti and one of the largest photo libraries in the country: from rare family photographs of Leo Tolstoy and Yuri Gagarin to modern reportage photographs. The service contains over a million photos, videos, cartoons and infographics.
Since 2011, following the example of the German Federal Archives and the Australian Museum of Queensland, RIA Novosti has been providing access to part of its archive under a Creative Commons license. The materials were posted on the Wikimedia Commons, in total in the public domain - about 2,000 photographs, collected in various thematic blocks.
National Host Agency and Photo Pool for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi
In September 2011, the International Olympic Committee granted RIA Novosti the status of a special authorized information agency for the Olympic Games in Sochi. In March 2013, RIA Novosti was given the status of a national host agency and a photo pool for the Paralympic Games in Sochi. The main role of the national photo pool was to keep detailed photo chronicles of the performances of the athletes of the host country and to distribute the images obtained among the media.
To solve these problems, RIA Novosti has developed and implemented a number of technological solutions and products. The agency's solutions include the Blitz system for the prompt delivery of photo content, Mark Roberts Motion Control sketches, the creation of the Olympic Photo Bank, and the development of Winter Games 2014 and Second Screen mobile applications.
Also, as part of its obligations to the IOC, RIA Novosti organized a Media Center for non-accredited journalists in Sochi, which allowed representatives of Russian and foreign media who did not fall into the accreditation quotas for the Olympic Games to get access to news broadcasts of the main media center of the Olympics, as well as take part in press conferences with Russian athletes. During the work of the center, it was visited by more than four thousand guests - journalists, athletes, federal officials, representatives of the regional administration, employees of press services.
The total audience of RIA Novosti Olympic projects exceeded 15 million unique users. More than 76,000 photos of RIA Novosti dedicated to the Sochi Olympics were used by the media.
