Ria Novosti Company Profile

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Company Name	Ria Novosti
Website	ria.ru
Snippet	RIA Novosti (Russian: РИА Новости), sometimes RIA (Russian: РИА) for short, was a Russian state-operated domestic news agency, which used to be one of Russia's international news agencies until 2013.[1] Operating under the purview of the Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, RIA Novosti is headquartered in Moscow and operated about 80 bureaus internationally. On 9 December 2013 President of Russia Vladimir Putin ordered RIA Novosti's liquidation and the creation of a Russian international news agency Rossiya Segodnya.[2] Dmitry Kiselev, an anchorman of the Russia-1 channel was appointed to be the first president of the new information agency.[3] RIA Novosti was scheduled to be closed down in 2014; starting in March 2014, staff were informed that they had the option of transferring their contracts to Rossiya Segodnya or accepting voluntary redundancy.[4] On 10 November 2014, Rossiya Segodnya launched the Sputnik multimedia platform as the international replacement of RIA Novosti and Voice of Russia. Within Russia itself, however, Rossiya Segodnya continues to operate its Russian language news service under the name RIA Novosti with its ria.ru website.[5]
Owner	Rossiya Segodnya (which is owned and operated by federal government (as unitary enterprise))
Country	russia
Defunct	1 April 2014
Founded	1941
Website	ria.ru
Industry	News media
Products	Wire service
linkedin	linkedin.com/company/ria-novosti
Successor	Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik, ria.ru
Key people	Svetlana Mironyuk
size_range	501 - 1000
Former type	Federal State Unitary Enterprise
Predecessor	Novosti Press Agency
Headquarters	Zubovsky Boulevard 4, Moscow, Russia
Number of employees	253

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