Izvestia

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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").Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

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.[2] 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.[3][4]

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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". A controlling stake in Izvestia was purchased by state-owned Gazprom on 3 June 2005, and included in the Gazprom Media holding.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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.[5][6] 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". As of 2005, the circulation of Izvestia was 240,967. Its 2007 circulation certified by TNS Gallup Media was 371,000 copies.[7] 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.[8]

In May 2024, the European Union accused the newspaper of spreading propaganda and placed it on its sanctions list.[9]

See also

References

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  5. ↑ Attacks 2005: Europe and Central Asia. Committee to Protect Journalists. 16 February 2006.
  6. ↑ Russia, Media, Gazprom, Izvestia – JRL 6March 2005 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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  8. ↑ – About Us National Media Group
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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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