Sputnik (news agency)
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russian Federation |
|---|---|
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Parent | Rossiya Segodnya |
| Website | sputniknews |
| 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]
Reception[edit]
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]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/9/putin-dissolves-rianovostinewsagency.html
- ^ "Sputnik launched to news orbit: Russia’s new intl media to offer alternative standpoint". November 11, 2014. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ^ "About Us". Sputnik. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ a b Laetitia Peron (20 November 2014). "Russia fights Western 'propaganda' as critical media squeezed". Yahoo! News. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
- ^ Davidoff, Victor (13 October 2013). "Soviet Psychiatry Returns". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ^ Judan, Ben (1 October 2009). "Reporter says criticism of Soviets brought threats". The San Diego Union Tribune.
- ^ "Автор: Александр Подрабинек" (in Russian). Radio Liberty.
- ^ Elias Groll (10 November 2014). "Kremlin’s ‘Sputnik’ Newswire Is the BuzzFeed of Propaganda". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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