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Sputnik
Type of siteNews, analysis, radio
Available inAzerbaijani, Abkhazian, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Kyrgyz, Hindi, Vietnamese and Turkish
HeadquartersMoscow, Russian Federation
Area servedWorldwide
ParentRossiya Segodnya
URLsputniknews.com
Launched10 November 2014
Current statusActive

Sputnik is an international multimedia news service launched on 10 November 2014 by Rossiya Segodnya, an agency wholly owned and operated by the Russian government, which was created by a Decree of the President of Russia on 9 December 2013. Sputnik replaces the RIA Novosti news agency on an international stage (which remains active in Russia) and Voice of Russia.

Radio Sputnik is the audio element of the platform and aims to "operate in 30 languages in 2015, for a total of over 800 hours a day, covering over 130 cities and 34 countries on "FM, digital DAB/DAB+ (Digital Radio Broadcasting), HD-Radio, as well as mobile phones and the Internet."

The news service also operates a television channel in the United Kingdom.

Reception

Alexander Podrabinek has called Sputnik a tool of Russian state propaganda distribution abroad, and has likened it to a pro-Putin version of the Daily Mail and described it as "anti-Western".

See also

References

  1. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/9/putin-dissolves-rianovostinewsagency.html
  2. "Sputnik launched to news orbit: Russia's new intl media to offer alternative standpoint". November 11, 2014. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  3. "About Us". Sputnik. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  4. ^ Laetitia Peron (20 November 2014). "Russia fights Western 'propaganda' as critical media squeezed". Yahoo! News. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  5. Elias Groll (10 November 2014). "Kremlin's 'Sputnik' Newswire Is the BuzzFeed of Propaganda". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 24 January 2015.

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