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Sputnik (Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputnʲɪk]; formerly Voice of Russia and RIA Novosti, naming derived from Russian спутник, "satellite") is a Russian state-owned [1] news agency and radio broadcast service.
The former deputy editor of the newspaper Moscow News, Oleg Poptsov, was appointed as its first chairman. On 10 December 1990 Radio Rossii began broadcasting. It first began broadcasting on a radio channel with the first program of All-Union Radio, as well as with "Mayak" radio channel and the third with the Third All-Union Radio program.
In November 2016, after the US presidential election, The Washington Post reported that RT and Sputnik were "state-funded Russian information services that mimic the style and tone of independent news organizations yet sometimes include false and misleading stories in their reports" and also that "RT, Sputnik and other Russian sites used social ...
Watch live as Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov holds a news conference on Tuesday, 14 January, as Moscow officials and media report that multiple regions in the country came under a major ...
John Chris Kiriakou (born August 9, 1964) is an American author, journalist and former intelligence officer. Kiriakou is a columnist with Reader Supported News [1] and co-host of Political Misfits on Sputnik Radio. [2]
Radio Soma is the only private radio station is very popular, broadcasting 24 hours a day, primarily music, but also carrying some news and, at times, live talk shows with invited guests. [4] The state radio, like state TV, broadcasts for 3–4 hours a day. [ 7 ]
Rossiya Segodnya incorporates the former RIA Novosti news service and the international radio service Voice of Russia (formerly Radio Moscow).According to the Decree of the President of Russia on 9 December 2013, [8] [9] [10] the mandate of the new agency is to "provide information on Russian state policy and Russian life and society for audiences abroad."
Key points from The Indepdnent’s live blog as of 9am GMT on 25/01/2015 Russia claims to have downed 121 Ukrainian drones targeting 13 regions, including Moscow.