Rossiya Sevodnya

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Rossiya Sevodnya
legal form FGUP
founding December 2013
Seat Moscow , Russia
Branch media
Website россиясегодня.рф

Rossija Sevodnja ("Russia Today", Russian Россия Сегодня ; pronunciation ? / I ) is a media company of the Russian state in Moscow . It operates a news portal and radio station in 30 languages under the Sputnik umbrella brand . Audio file / audio sample

Companies

The company emerged from the former news agency RIA Novosti (formerly Sowinformbüro ), the foreign broadcaster Voice of Russia (formerly Radio Moscow ), the television station RT (formerly Russia Today ) and the TV agency Ruptly affiliated with RT . Rossiya Sevodnja was founded on December 9, 2013 by decree of the Russian President and is headed by Dmitri Kisselev . The first editor-in-chief is Margarita Simonowna Simonjan .

According to the Russian business paper “RBKdaily”, Rossija Sevodnja received around 263 million euros for the expansion of the international offering for 2015.

history

Decree No. 894, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 9, 2013, merged the “Voice of Russia” and the RIA Novosti news agency into a new state news agency called the Rossiya Sevodnya International News Agency.

Kisselev, who was appointed general director of the new agency by decree No. 895 on the same day, is considered an ideological hardliner and an advocate of presidential autocratic tendencies. Kisseljow said at a RIA Novosti works meeting that “the old brands” should be continued within the new organization; but that was only related to RIA Novosti. An English-language radio station Sochi Today was operated for the Winter Olympics in February 2014, although it was not supplied by the English editorial staff of Voice of Russia, but by the television station Russia Today .

Alignment

Saving money and realigning Russia's self-image in the face of increasing tensions with the West were cited as reasons for the restructuring.

The development has been received critically. The chairman of the Moscow Association of Journalists, Pavel Gusev, said it was a "revival of Soviet principles". Kisseljow last attracted attention in the summer of 2013 through homophobic statements and compared Putin on his 60th birthday in a positive sense with the dictator Josef Stalin .

sputnik

Instead of the multilingual services of the former RIA Novosti news agency and the international broadcaster Voice of Russia , the new Sputnik media service gradually appeared at the end of 2014 . The internet portal sputniknews.com and the radio station SNA have been available in German since Christmas 2014.

According to its own statement, the service should represent the Russian interpretation of global events. A think tank called the Zinoviev Club writes political commentaries for Sputnik. The expert forum named after the writer Alexander Zinoviev , according to its own statement, pursues the goal of “conveying a fair image of Russia with well-founded analyzes and comments”.

Others

On October 17, 2015, Rossiya Sevodnja was the target of a DDoS attack that temporarily prevented access to the news agency's website.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margarita Simonyan found out about the establishment of the agency, "Russia Today" from the media , lenta.ru, December 9, 2013
  2. ↑ Putin founds a large propaganda apparatus , dpa / Handelsblatt dated December 9, 2013, accessed on April 6, 2014.
  3. ^ Propaganda Portal - Vladimir Putin's doubtful witnesses , Stuttgarter Zeitung, November 20, 2014
  4. ↑ Voice of Russia absorbed by nascent Rossiya Segodnya newswire. (No longer available online.) In: Voice of Russia. December 9, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 13, 2013 (English, press release).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / voiceofrussia.com
  5. ↑ a b c d Kai Ludwig: Voice of Russia will be liquidated (updated) ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radioeins.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: RBB Radio Eins media magazine. December 9, 2013. Updated December 13, 2013. Accessed December 14, 2013.
  6. ^ A b Klaus-Helge Donath: The Propaganda Mega Machine . In: taz.de. December 11, 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  7. ↑ Russia forges a large news agency ( Memento from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . In: tagesschau.de. December 9, 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  8. ↑ New media company loyal to the Kremlin: Putin entrusts gay haters with state propaganda , Focus dated December 9, 2013, accessed on April 6, 2014.
  9. ↑ Fred Weir: Kremlin Spin: Does Media Overhaul Herald New Propaganda Push? ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Christian Science Monitor. December 9, 2013. Retrieved from HighBeam Research (accessed from The Wikipedia Library ) on December 14, 2013.
  10. ↑ http://www.n24.de/n24/Nachrichten/Ppolitik/d/5689780/moskau-will--westliche-propaganda--bekaempfen.html
  11. ↑ http://de.sputniknews.com/panorama/20141224/300354128.html
  12. ↑ Hubertus Volmer: "Media war with the West: Russia brings Sputnik to the start" , n-tv , November 12, 2014. Date of query: December 31, 2014.
  13. ^ Zinoviev Club , accessed July 8, 2020.
  14. ↑ Hacker attack: DDoS attack paralyzed the websites of "Rossiya Segodnya". In: de.sputniknews.com. October 18, 2015, accessed October 18, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Rossiya Segodnya Information Agency Suffers Major DDoS Attack. In: DDoS Attacks. ddosattacks.net, accessed on October 22, 2015 .