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| Owner | Government of Moscow |
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| Founder | All-Union Organisation "Knowledge" |
| Founded | 1 January 1978; 48 years ago (1978-01-01) |
| Language | Russian |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Circulation | 2,750,000 (February 2008) |
| Website | aif.ru |
Argumenty i Fakty (Russian:Аргументы и факты, commonly abbreviated "АиФ" and translated asArguments and Facts)[1] is a weekly newspaper based in Moscow and a publishing house in Russia and worldwide. Since 2014, it has been owned by theGovernment of Moscow.[2]
It was founded in 1978 by the All-Union Organisation"Znanie" (Knowledge) and was published throughout the wholeSoviet Union for lecturers, propagandists, political agitators. In 1980AiF was transformed into a weekly but was available only by subscription. In late 1980s, it was one of the leading publications in theGlasnost period. AiF was listed in theGuinness Book of Records with the largest circulation of any weekly publication.[3] In 1990 it had a print run of 33.5 million.[4] With thefall of the Soviet Union, publication of it was discontinued in countries outside theRussian Federation. As of 2008, the circulation was about 3 million copies, with about 8 million readers.[5] More specifically its February 2008 circulation was 2,750,000.[6] During this time, it was owned byPromsvyazbank and the newspaper was edited byNikolay Zyatkov.[5]