Sovetskaya Rossiya
| Sovetskaya Rossiya
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| description | Organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers, thereafter independent |
| First edition | July 1, 1956 |
| Frequency of publication | three times per week |
| Sold edition | 300,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Valentin Vasilyevich Chikin |
| Web link | www.sovross.ru |
The Sowetskaja Rossija ( Russian Советская Россия , German: " Soviet Russia ") is a Russian daily newspaper that was founded in 1956.
Until April 1966 it was the organ of the office of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR and the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, then the newspaper of the Central Committee of the CPSU, since January 1, 1974 organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR.
In 1990 the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR published its own newspaper Rossijskije westi (Российские вести) and the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR founded the Russian newspaper (Российская газета). As a result, Sovetskaya Rossiya became a pure party newspaper.
The editor-in-chief Tschikin (since 1986) converted the newspaper 1990-91 into an opposition newspaper against the government. Numerous articles critical of the government as well as manifestos (such as A Word to the People ) by the national communist opposition were published in the paper . At the moment the paper describes itself as an independent people's newspaper.