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Russia Today drew particular attention worldwide for its coverage of the 2008 South Ossetia war. [99] [100] [101] RT named Georgia as the aggressor [101] against the separatist governments of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which were protected by Russian troops. [102] RT saw this as the incident that showcased its newsgathering abilities to the ...
On 28 November 1991, the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin signed presidential decree No.242 "On the reorganization of the government bodies of the RSFSR". Yeltsin officially declared the end of the Soviet Union and became the President of the Russian Federation. Yeltsin was a reformer and promised Western-styled democracy.
In November 2022 Medvedev was quoted as saying on his Telegram app channel that the Ukrainian desire to recapture the territory it had lost to Russia in the annexations "is a threat to the existence of our state and of a dismemberment of today's Russia", and "direct reason" to use Russia's nuclear weapons; something the reporter termed ...
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the Washington studio of Russia Today TV with Margarita Simonyan. Russia was among the first countries to introduce radio and television. While there were few channels in Soviet times, in the past two decades many new state and privately owned radio stations and TV channels have appeared.
RT America was a U.S.-based news channel headquartered in Washington, D.C. Owned by TV Novosti and operated by production company T&R Productions, [1] it was a part of the RT network, a global multilingual television news network based in Moscow and funded by the Russian government.
On paper, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems like a humble statesman with a modest income. The Kremlin claims that Putin earns an annual salary of $140,000. His publicly disclosed assets ...
The list of channels in the first of the two of them was approved by a decree of the President of Russia. [19] [20] Over a period of 10 years, about 100 million TV-sets and about 20 million digital set-top boxes were sold. This had set the stage for the analogue switch-off (ASO). On November 29, 2018, the Russian government approved the ASO ...
The president of Russia, officially the president of the Russian Federation (Russian: Президент Российской Федерации, romanized: Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii), is the executive head of state of Russia. The president is the chair of the Federal State Council and the supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed ...