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 Front page of theIzvestia newspaper from 15 June 2012 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | National Media Group |
| Publisher | Inews (News Media) |
| Editor-in-chief | Sergei Korotyev |
| Founded | 13 March 1917; 108 years ago (1917-03-13) |
| Language | Russian |
| Headquarters | Begovoy District, Moscow, Russia |
| Circulation | 234,500[1] |
| ISSN | 0233-4356 |
| OCLC number | 427395058 |
| Website | iz |
Izvestia (Russian:Известия,romanized:Izvestiya,IPA:[ɪzˈvʲesʲtʲɪjə], "The News") is a dailybroadsheet newspaper inRussia. Founded in February 1917,Izvestia, which coveredforeign relations, was the organ of theSupreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, disseminating official state propaganda.[2] It is now described as a "national newspaper" of Russia.
The wordizvestiya in Russian means "bring news" or "tidings", "herald" (an official messenger bringing news), derived from the verbizveshchat ("to inform", "to notify").[citation needed]
During the Soviet period, whilePravda served as the official mouthpiece of theCommunist Party,Izvestia expressed the official views of the Soviet government as published by thePresidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.[3] Its full name wasIzvestija Sovjetov Narodnyh Djeputatov SSSR (in Russian,Известия Советов народных депутатов СССР, theReports of Soviets of Peoples' Deputies of the USSR).
TheIzvestia Trophy ice hockey tournament was named after the newspaper between 1969 and 1996.
Nedelya was the weekend supplement of Izvestia.[4][5]
Following thedissolution of the Soviet Union,Izvestia now describes itself as a "national newspaper" of Russia. The newspaper was owned by a vast holding company ofVladimir Potanin which had close ties with the government.[citation needed] A controlling stake inIzvestia was purchased by state-ownedGazprom on 3 June 2005, and included in theGazprom Media holding.[citation needed] According to the allegations of theCommittee to Protect Journalists, Raf Shakirov, editor-in-chief ofIzvestia, was forced to resign because the government officials did not like the paper's coverage of theBeslan school hostage crisis.[6][7] Other sources informed that Potanin had asked him to leave for fear the Kremlin would be riled by the explicit photographs of the massacre published byIzvestia.[citation needed] As of 2005, the circulation ofIzvestia was 240,967. Its 2007 circulation certified by TNS Gallup Media was 371,000 copies.[8] Until his death on 1 October 2008, the chief artist wasBoris Yefimov, the centenarian illustrator who had worked asJoseph Stalin's political cartoonist.
In 2008, Gazprom Media soldIzvestia toNational Media Group.[9]
In May 2024, theEuropean Union accused the newspaper of spreadingpropaganda and placed it on its sanctions list.[10]
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