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Rossiya Segodnya

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Not to be confused with RT (TV network) or Russian Federation Today.
"Russia Today" redirects here. For other uses, see Russia Today (disambiguation).

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

FSUE International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya
Company typeFederal State Unitary Enterprise
IndustryNews media
Founded9 December 2013
HeadquartersZubovsky Boulvard 4, Moscow, Russia
Key people
Dmitry Kiselyov, Margarita Simonyan
ProductsWire service, international radio
Ownerwholly owned by federal government (as unitary enterprise)
SubsidiariesVoice of Russia

Rossiya Segodnya (official name: Federal State Unitary Enterprise International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya; from Russian: Россия Сегодня, Russia Today) is the official Russian government owned international news agency founded by presidential decree on 9 December 2013. Rossiya Segodnya incorporates the former RIA Novosti news service and the Voice of Russia international radio service (formerly Radio Moscow). It will be headed by Dmitry Kiselyov,[1] a news presenter on the domestic Rossiya 1 television channel, who had courted controversy with his commentaries alleging foreign conspiracies against Russia and attacking homosexuals.[2] According to the presidential decree, the mandate of the new agency is to “to provide information on Russian state policy and Russian life and society for audiences abroad.”[3]

President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said that Rossiya Segodnya was being created out of concern for cost efficiency in state media,[2] but RIA Novosti's report about the move speculated it was an attempt to consolidate state control over the media sector.[4]

According to a report on the RT news channel the Rossiya Segodnya news agency is "in no way related" to the RT news channel despite the similarity in name (RT was known as Russia Today prior to its rebranding in 2009).[3] However, a BBC report states that it "seems likely... that [Rossiya Segodnya] will complement the work of the state-funded foreign-language TV station, RT."[5] However, on 31 December 2013, RT news channel editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan was also appointed editor of the RT news agency and will serve in both positions concurrently.[6]

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References

  1. ^ http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_12_09/President-Vladimir-Putin-issues-decree-to-reorgonize-Voice-of-Russia-RIA-Novosti-to-Rossia-Segodnya-news-wire-1689/
  2. ^ a b Myers, Steven Lee (9 December 2013). "With No Notice, Putin Scraps Kremlin News Agencies". New York Times. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Putin orders overhaul of top state news agency". RT. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
  4. ^ "RIA Novosti to be liquidated in state-owned media overhaul". RIA Novosti. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  5. ^ "Putin's RIA Novosti revamp prompts propaganda fears". BBC News. 9 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  6. ^ "RT editor Simonyan to head Kremlin-backed news agency". BBC News. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2013.

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