The Russian Agency for International Information RIA Novosti (FGUP RAMI RIA Novosti) is a former media group and one of the largest news agencies in the world with its headquarters in Moscow, now the brand of MIA Russia Today. The main principles of its activity, RIA Novosti proclaims "efficiency, objectivity, independence from the political situation."
The Russian Agency for International Information RIA Novosti (FGUP RAMI RIA Novosti) is a former media group and one of the largest news agencies in the world with its headquarters in Moscow, now the brand of MIA Russia Today. Since June 8, 2014 it is an information 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 increase the efficiency of the state media” of December 9, 2013. According to the decree, instead of the liquidated RIA Novosti, the international news agency Russia Today was created.
In addition to the agency of the same name, RIA Novosti included the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information (RAPSI), the Sports News Agency R-Sport, the Economic Information Agency PRIME, the Rating Agency RIA Rating, the Russian Information Agency for Science and Technology RIA Nauka, 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 a total audience of more than 20 million unique visitors per month.
The chief editor of RIA Novosti at the time of liquidation was Svetlana Mironyuk, who had been managing the agency since 2003.
History
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The Russian Agency for International Information "RIA Novosti" began its history since June 24, 1941. It was then that, on the basis of a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, "On the Creation and Tasks of the Soviet Information Bureau, " the Sovinformburo was created. Subsequently, the structure gradually transformed, changing the name, goals and submission. First, to the Novosti Press Agency, then to the Novosti News Agency, then to the Novosti Russian News Agency, and then to the Vesti Russian News Agency.
April 1, 2004, after making changes to the constituent documents, the structure received the name and status of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Agency for International Information "RIA Novosti"
Sovinformburo
Two days after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, on June 24, 1941, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR issued a resolution "On the Creation and Tasks of the Soviet Information Bureau." The agency’s tasks included compiling reports for radio, newspapers and magazines on the situation on the fronts, the work of the rear, and on the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War.
In 1944, a special propaganda bureau for foreign countries was created as part of the Sovinformburo. Through 1, 171 newspapers, 523 magazines and 18 radio stations in 23 countries, Soviet embassies abroad, friendship societies, trade union, women's, youth and scientific organizations, the Sovinformburo acquainted readers and listeners with the struggle of the Soviet people against fascism, and in the post-war period, with the main areas of domestic and foreign policy of the Soviet Union.
The Sovinformburo was reformed into the Novosti Press Agency (APN) by a resolution of the CPSU Central Committee of January 5, 1961.
News Agency
On February 21, 1961, the News Agency (APN) was created on the basis of the Sovinformburo. The agency became the leading information and journalistic body of Soviet public organizations. Founders of the APS: Union of Journalists of the USSR, Union of Writers of the USSR, 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 "through the wide dissemination abroad of truthful information about the USSR and by acquainting the Soviet public with the life of the peoples of foreign countries in every way possible to promote mutual understanding, trust and friendship between peoples." APN representative offices were in more than 120 countries. The agency published 60 illustrated newspapers and magazines in 45 languages in a single print run of 4.3 million copies.
Together with the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies, APN published the Moscow News newspaper, which since September 1990 has become an independent publication. APN Publishing House issued more than 200 books and brochures with a total circulation of about 20 million copies a year. The agency’s copyright included more than 7 thousand people. Such well-known journalists as Heinrich Borovik, Vladimir Simonov, Gennady Gerasimov, Vladimir Pozner, Vladimir Molchanov, Vitaliy Tretyakov and others worked in the APS. Along with Soviet authors, foreign writers, journalists and public figures collaborated with the agency.
In 1989, a television center was opened at the APN, which was later transformed into the TV company Novosti. On July 27, 1990, the News Agency was created on the basis of the APN.
News Agency
On July 27, 1990, in accordance with the Decree of the President of the USSR M. S. Gorbachev "On the establishment of the News Agency", the News Agency (IAN) was created on the basis of the APS - as was said in the decree, "to provide information to the state internal and foreign policy of the USSR and based on the interests of the democratization of the media. " On August 25, the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR approved the "Regulation on the News Agency (IAN)." By a decree of August 26, 1991, the agency was transferred to the RSFSR.
The objectives of the IAN have remained the same: the preparation and distribution of printed, television and radio materials in the USSR and abroad; the study of public opinion in the country and abroad on foreign and domestic policy of the USSR. A computer data bank was created at IAN, containing initially more than 250 thousand units of documents. Since 1991, the news feed "Infonews" began to appear. Representative offices of IAN were located in 120 countries. IAN published 13 illustrated magazines and newspapers.
RIA "Vesti" and RIA "News"
In September 1991, the Russian News Agency Novosti was created on the basis of the IAN. By presidential decree of August 22, 1991, RIA Novosti was transferred to the Ministry of Press and Information. The Novosti news agency had about 80 foreign bureaus and correspondent offices, 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 News Agency" Novosti ", RIA Novosti became the state information and analytical agency. In 1996, the RIA Novosti radio channel, RIA Radio, worked. In August 1997, the Culture channel was created on the basis of the RIA television channel under the foundation of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
In May 1998, on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin "On improving the work of state electronic media", the VGTRK information holding was formed, which included RIA Novosti under a new name - Russian News Agency Vesti, retaining at the same time, the famous RIA Novosti brand in the information environment. In 2001, RIA Novosti disclosed news information on the agency’s website.
On December 23, 2003, by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, the RIA Vesti agency was removed from the VGTRK and was directly subordinated to the Ministry of Printing. Since April 1, 2004, in connection with the state registration of amendments to the constituent documents, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian News Agency Vesti has been renamed the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Agency for International Information RIA Novosti (abbreviated as Federal State Unitary Enterprise RAMI RIA Novosti) ").
RIA News
In January 2003, Svetlana Mironyuk became the chairman of the board of RIA Novosti, in April 2004 she took the post of general director. In 2006, Svetlana Mironyuk became the chief editor of the agency. In 2007, RIA Novosti adopted a multimedia development strategy.
The agency created infographic studios (later, the RIA Novosti Design Center) and video information. As part of the new strategy, the agency focused on multimedia formats: photos and videos, infographics, video panoramas, interactive videos and projects, live broadcasts, games, projects in web documentary format (films that provide the reader with the opportunity to independently choose the order and logic of viewing) and others.
Another key direction of RIA Novosti development during this period was the transformation of the agency into a media holding. In 2008, RIA Novosti regained the Moscow News brand, which was lost by the agency in 1990. In 2009, RIA became a co-founder of the RAPSI legal information agency, in 2011 it acquired the PRIME economic information agency, created the Social Navigator social research agency, and in 2012 created the RIA Rating rating agency, the R-Sport sports information agency and the Russian science and technology news agency "RIA Nauka". <In the framework of the multimedia strategy, educational projects were created on the basis of the RIA Novosti press center: Lectoria, RIA Art, Scientific Monday, Open Screening and others; social projects "There is no diagnosis" - 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 information agency of the Olympics (national host agency and national photopool) to RIA Novosti Group, which includes the sports news agency R-Sport. In March 2013, RIA Novosti was given the status of the national host agency and the photopool of the Paralympic Games in Sochi. As a result of coverage of the Olympic Games, the IOC gave the highest rating to the work of RIA Novosti.
Liquidation of the media holding RIA Novosti
On December 9, 2013, President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On Certain Measures to Improve the Efficiency of State-Owned 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 Russia Today news agency. Dmitry Kiselyov was appointed General Director of the new structure. By the same decree, the Russian state-owned broadcasting company Golos Rossii was liquidated, and the company's property was also transferred 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, 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 MIA "Russia Today" is aimed at solving two problems - the rational use of budgetary funds and increasing the effectiveness of state-owned media. As Ivanov emphasized in his communication with reporters, "Russia pursues an independent policy, firmly defends its national interests; explaining this to the world is not easy, but it can and should be done."
The general director of Russia Today Dmitry Kiselyov, commenting on the creation of the agency and his appointment, outlined the goal of the new structure - to restore a fair attitude towards Russia. "The restoration of a fair attitude towards Russia, as an important country of the world with good intentions, is the mission of a new structure, which I have to head"
The elimination of RIA Novosti and the creation of "Russia Today" caused widespread discussion in the media. So, commenting on the decree, reporters noted that amid the decline in government investment in RIA Novosti in recent years, other state information assets - ITAR-TASS, federal television channels (Channel One, VGTRK, NTV, Russia Today) did not reduce government support felt.
The effectiveness of RIA Novosti was also widely discussed. As Radio Liberty noted, “… of all the Big Three news agencies, RIA Novosti looked the most modern, or at least trying to be one. While ITAR-TASS continued to delight subscribers with sketches appearing on the tape “From the life of the decaying West” in the style of the 70s, and “Interfax” remained only a provider of operational news for other media without any attempts to become such itself, in RIA Novosti the department of modern media technologies and infographics was actively developing. ” As a separate subsidiary project, the Legal and Judicial Information Agency successfully existed, which in recent years conducted direct text and video broadcasts of all significant lawsuits - from the Pussy Riot case to the Kirovles case and Alexei Navalny.
On December 16, 2013, the liquidation commission, led by Dmitry Kiselyov, appointed Irakli Gachechiladze, editor-in-chief of Margarita Simonyan, deputy editor-in-chief of Russia Today, to the post of editor-in-chief of the abolished structure.
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 in RT.
On March 6, 2014, the chief editor of RIA Novosti, Irakli Gachechiladze, announced the end of the transition period - according to him, the agency is ready to be transformed into MIA Russia Today, staffing is almost complete and people are being transferred. Earlier, the online edition of Slon.ru reported that according to a letter sent to him by the agency’s correspondent’s head, Andrey Piskunov, out of 150 RIA Novosti correspondents in the regions, only 20 would continue to work for the new agency, out of 69 regional points, only 19.
On March 21, 2014, the editor-in-chief of MIA Russia Today Margarita Simonyan announced that after the liquidation of RIA Novosti, the PRIME economic information agency will become a unit of ITAR-TASS, and the RAPSI will acquire the status of an autonomous non-profit organization that will independently seek financing.
June 8, 2014 RIA Novosti was registered by Roskomnadzor as an information agency and online publication.
The structure of RIA Novosti
Information Agency "RIA Novosti"
The main function of RIA Novosti is to supply operational political, economic, social, and cultural information to the editors of newspapers, magazines, television, radio broadcasting, as well as other institutions, organizations, and private individuals who are subscribers to its products.
RIA Novosti's clients included the Presidential Administration and the Government of Russia, parliament, ministries and other federal departments, 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 persons.
RIA.ru
RIA. Ru - 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 heading included sections of politics, society, economics, news about world events, incidents, security, sports, science and technology news, culture. Also, as an independent project on ria.ru, there was a publication of reviews and reviews of cultural events Weekend.
The mission of the resource is to balance events in Russia and the world in a balanced and objective manner using a variety of formats - text, photo, video (traditional, panoramic and interactive), live broadcasts, infographics, ratings, comments by experts and opinion leaders, and so on.
RIA.ru is one of the first Russian resources to offer personalization and geo-targeting (localization of news by region) - St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don.
R-Sport
The 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 founding, R-Sport has been headed by Vasily Konov, who joined RIA Novosti from the sports editorial office of Channel One, but in 2017, Alexander Kalmykov was appointed new editor-in-chief and Konov returned to Channel One.
“R-Sport” provides sports media, infographics, interviews and expert comments, detailed game statistics, ratings, text broadcasts of sporting events, as well as special projects dedicated to the largest world-class sporting events to specialized media and the general reader.
RAPSI
The Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information (abbr.: 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 judicial system and the life of the judicial community in Of Russia. Broadcasting is carried out in two languages - Russian and English. The chief editor of the RAPSI is Oleg Efrosinin.
Participation in the project of the highest judicial instances of the country allowed the RAPSI to present to the socio-political media and mass users 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 hearings on the second Khodorkovsky case.
In the framework of the liquidation of RIA Novosti, the Agency of the RAPSI will acquire the status of an autonomous non-profit organization that will independently seek financing
Moscow news
Moscow News - since 2011, a daily city newspaper and a site for the "new intelligentsia", which talks about trends that, originating in the capital, are distributed 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 with materials on events at the federal level.
The Moscow News
The Moscow News is the oldest English-language newspaper in Russia, published since October 5, 1930. Founded by American Socialist Anna Louise Strong. It was closed in 1949, editor-in-chief Mikhail Borodin was convicted in the case of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Again began to go 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 weekly English-language newspaper for foreigners and expats. At the beginning of 2014, the publication of the paper and electronic versions of the publication was stopped by the decision of the liquidation commission of RIA Novosti.
Agency of economic information "PRIME"
Main article: PRIME
PRIME is one of the first economic information agencies in Russia. RIA Novosti was acquired in 2011 from the structures of the Eurofinance group. In partnership with the global agency Dow Jones Newswires, the agency produced news products for professional financiers in the international currency, stock and commodity markets.
PRIME was the official publisher and distributor of the Bulletin of the Bank of Russia and the Banking Statistics Bulletin. The Agency was authorized by the Bank of Russia Financial Markets Service 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 financial institutions such 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 ", " Russian Regional Development Bank "and others.
As part of the elimination of RIA Novosti, the PRIME economic information agency will move to ITAR-TASS
RIA Rating
RIA Rating is a rating agency specializing in assessing the status of companies, regions, banks, industries and credit risks. The agency was created in December 2011 on the basis of the RIA Analytics Center for Economic Research, RIA Novosti, and the public activity of RIA Rating began 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, regional and municipal development strategies, company development strategies, analyzing industries according to various criteria, and comprehensive economic research.
RIA Science
RIA Nauka is the Russian Information Agency for Science and Technology (RIANT), created on September 11, 2013 on the basis of RIA Novosti. The main task of the agency is to inform Russian and foreign audiences about the state and achievements of world science and technology. The chief editor of RIA Nauka is Andrei 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 winner of the Sergey Kapitsa Prize for the Promotion of Science and Technology.
In Moscow
In Moscow, an information and service resource created in 2012. The project is designed to help a resident of Moscow find out, find and choose what he needs to live in the capital - information about legal and state institutions, weather, traffic jams, the schedule of work of entertainment venues in the city and more.
You are a reporter
You, a reporter, are a RIA Novosti project created in April 2010 to develop citizen journalism in Russia. Over four years of work, more than 6, 000 participants from Russia, the CIS, Europe and the USA joined it.
The project was awarded several professional awards: "Runet Prize" in the nomination Culture and Mass Communications in 2010; WSA Mobile international award in the category "Media and News" in 2010; as well as the finalist diploma of the IBC2011 Innovation Awards in the Content Creation nomination in 2011.
RIA Novosti Ukraine
Information partner of the agency " Russia Today " in Ukraine.
Services
News terminal
The RIA Novosti information terminal is a paid service that provides quick access to more than 50 information products of the RIA Novosti media group. Using the media service, financial institutions and other agency clients could gain access to urgent news, information messages, and announcements of events in Russia and the world.
The main advantages for terminal customers, compared to 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 mention rating of individuals and companies.
Visualrian
Visualrian.ru - a professional service for searching and buying multimedia materials RIA Novosti and one of the largest photo libraries in the country: from rare family photos of Leo Tolstoy and Yuri Gagarin to modern reportage shots. The service contains more than a million photos, videos, cartoons and infographics.
Since 2011, following the example of the Federal Archive of Germany and the Australian Queensland Museum, 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 photos collected in various thematic blocks.
National host agency and photopool of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi
In September 2011, the International Olympic Committee granted RIA Novosti the status of a special authorized news agency for the Olympic Games in Sochi. In March 2013, RIA Novosti was given the status of the national host agency and the photopool of the Paralympic Games in Sochi. The main role of the national photopool was to conduct detailed photo chronicle of the performances of the athletes of the host country and to distribute the resulting images among the media.
To solve these problems, RIA Novosti has developed and implemented a number of technological solutions and products. The agency’s solutions included the Blitz photo-content operational delivery system, Mark Roberts Motion Control photobots, the creation of the Olympic Photo Bank, the development of the Winter Games 2014 and Second Screen mobile applications.
Так же в рамках обязательств перед МОК, РИА Новости организовало Медиацентр для неаккредитованных журналистов в Сочи, позволивший представителям российских и зарубежных СМИ, не попавшим в квоты аккредитации на Олимпийские игры, получить доступ к новостным трансляциям основного медиацентра Олимпиады, а также принять участие в пресс-конференциях с российскими спортсменами. За время работы центра его посетило более четырёх тысяч гостей — журналистов, спортсменов, федеральных чиновников, представителей региональной администрации, сотрудников пресс-служб.
РИА Новости проделало фантастическую работу как национальное хост-агентство. Мы очень довольны партнёрством с РИА Новости и высоко оцениваем усилия, которые проделало агентство для производства и распространения текстовой и фотоинформации. Только это агентство смогло добиться столь широкого распространения олимпийского контента в такой большой стране, как Россия
— Глава пресс-комиссии МОК Кеван Госпер
Совокупная аудитория олимпийских проектов РИА Новости превысила 15 миллионов уникальных пользователей. Более 76 000 фотографий РИА Новости, посвящённых Олимпиаде в Сочи, было использовано средствами массовой информации.
