Sputnik (news agency)

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Sputnik
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Headquarters Moscow, Russian Federation
Area served Worldwide
Parent Rossiya Segodnya
Website sputniknews.com
Type of site News, analysis, radio
Available in Azerbaijani, Abkhazian, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Kyrgyz, Hindi, Vietnamese and Turkish
Launched 10 November 2014
Current status Active

Sputnik is an international multimedia news service launched on 10 November 2014 by Rossiya Segodnya, an agency wholly owned and operated by the Russian government, which was created by a Decree of the President of Russia on 9 December 2013.[1] Sputnik replaces the RIA Novosti news agency on an international stage (which remains active in Russia)[2] and Voice of Russia.

Radio Sputnik is the audio element of the platform and aims to "operate in 30 languages in 2015, for a total of over 800 hours a day, covering over 130 cities and 34 countries on "FM, digital DAB/DAB+ (Digital Radio Broadcasting), HD-Radio, as well as mobile phones and the Internet."[3]

The news service also operates a television channel in the United Kingdom.[4]

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Alexander Podrabinek, a Russian journalist who works for the Radio France Internationale[5][6] (a French public radio service that operates under the auspices and primary budget of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs) and the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty[7] (a 501(c)(3) corporation that receives U.S. government funding and is supervised by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an agency overseeing all U.S. federal government international broadcasting services), has called Sputnik a tool of Russian state propaganda distribution abroad,[4] and has likened it to a pro-Putin version of the Daily Mail and described it as "anti-Western".[8]

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