Izvestia

Template:Short description {{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Expand language Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox newspaper Izvestia (Template:Lang-rus, "The News") is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. Founded in February 1917, Izvestia, which covered foreign relations, was the organ of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, disseminating official state propaganda.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It is now described as a "national newspaper" of Russia.

The word izvestiya in Russian means "bring news" or "tidings", "herald" (an official messenger bringing news), derived from the verb izveshchat ("to inform", "to notify").Template:Citation needed

History

1917–1991

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Old Izvestia logo. It uses two letters that are no longer used in the Russian language (see Reforms of Russian orthography).

During the Soviet period, while Pravda served as the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, Izvestia expressed the official views of the Soviet government as published by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Its full name was Izvestija Sovjetov Narodnyh Djeputatov SSSR (in Russian, Известия Советов народных депутатов СССР, the Reports of Soviets of Peoples' Deputies of the USSR).

The Izvestia Trophy ice hockey tournament was named after the newspaper between 1969 and 1996.

Nedelya was the weekend supplement of Izvestia.<ref name="NYT_1983">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

1992–present

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Izvestiia Newspaper Building in Moscow

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Izvestia now describes itself as a "national newspaper" of Russia. The newspaper was owned by a vast holding company of Vladimir Potanin which had close ties with the government.Template:Citation needed A controlling stake in Izvestia was purchased by state-owned Gazprom on 3 June 2005, and included in the Gazprom Media holding.Template:Citation needed According to the allegations of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Raf Shakirov, editor-in-chief of Izvestia, was forced to resign because the government officials did not like the paper's coverage of the Beslan school hostage crisis.<ref>Attacks 2005: Europe and Central Asia. Committee to Protect Journalists. 16 February 2006.</ref><ref>Russia, Media, Gazprom, Izvestia – JRL 6March 2005 Template:Webarchive</ref> 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 by Izvestia.Template:Citation needed As of 2005, the circulation of Izvestia was 240,967. Its 2007 circulation certified by TNS Gallup Media was 371,000 copies.<ref name=bbc8>Template:Cite news</ref> Until his death on 1 October 2008, the chief artist was Boris Yefimov, the centenarian illustrator who had worked as Joseph Stalin's political cartoonist.

In 2008, Gazprom Media sold Izvestia to National Media Group.<ref>– About Us National Media Group</ref>

In May 2024, the European Union accused the newspaper of spreading propaganda and placed it on its sanctions list.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• Izvestia Moskovskogo Soveta Rabochikh Deputatov
• Mass media in Russia
• Pravda

Further reading

• Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp 170–76

External links

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• Archives of Izvestia (1951–1989) via Arcanum Newspapers.
• Archives of Pravda (1917–2024) via East View Global Press Archive.
• Archives of Izvestia (1917–2024) via Yandex Archive.
• English translations of Izvestia articles at nonprofit WorldMeets.US
• "Izvestia" digital archives in "Newspapers on the web and beyond", the digital resource of the National Library of Russia