Izvestia
{{Short description|Russian daily newspaper founded in 1917}}
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{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Izvestia
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| logo = Izvestia.svg
| image = File:Izvestia-frontpage.jpg
| caption = Front page of the Izvestia newspaper from 15 June 2012
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| owners = National Media Group
| publisher = Inews (News Media)
| chiefeditor = Arseniy Ogenesyan
| assoceditor =
| staff =
| foundation = {{Start date and age|df=y|1917|3|13}}
| political =
| language = Russian
| headquarters = Begovoy District, Moscow, Russia
| ISSN = 0233-4356
| oclc = 427395058
| website = {{URL|iz.ru}}
}}
Izvestia ({{lang-rus|Известия|r=Izvestiya|p=ɪzˈvʲesʲtʲɪjə}}, "The News") is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. Founded in February 1917, Izvestia, which covered foreign relations, was the organ of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, disseminating official state propaganda.{{cite web|url=http://www.eastview.com/Files/EVIzvestiiaDA.pdf|title=Izvestiia Digital Archive 1917–2010. Online access to the Kremlin's newspaper of record|publisher=East View Information Services |location=Minneapolis, MN|page=5|access-date=18 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614143019/http://www.eastview.com/Files/EVIzvestiiaDA.pdf|archive-date=14 June 2011|url-status=dead}} It is now described as a "national newspaper" of Russia.
The word izvestiya in Russian means "bring news" or "tidings", "herald" (an official messenger bringing news), derived from the verb izveshchat ("to inform", "to notify").{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}
History
=1917–1991=
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During the Soviet period, while Pravda served as the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, Izvestia expressed the official views of the Soviet government as published by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.{{cite journal|author=Andrei G. Richter|title=The Russian Press after Perestroika|journal=Canadian Journal of Communication|year=1995
|volume=20|issue=1|url=http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/842/748}} Its full name was Izvestija Sovjetov Narodnyh Djeputatov SSSR (in Russian, Известия Советов народных депутатов СССР, the Reports of Soviets of Peoples' Deputies of the USSR).
The Izvestia Trophy ice hockey tournament was named after the newspaper between 1969 and 1996.
Nedelya was the weekend supplement of Izvestia.{{cite news |last1=Schmemann |first1=Serge |title=Soviet says Hare Krishna cloaks hide C.I.A. Daggers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/31/world/soviet-says-hare-krishna-cloaks-hide-cia-daggers.html |access-date=6 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=31 July 1983}}{{cite journal|author=Henry W. Morton|title=Book review |journal=International Journal|date=December 1965|volume=20|issue=4|page=561|doi=10.1177/002070206502000432|s2cid=148639684 }}
=1992–present=
File:Moscow IzvestiaBuilding 0623.jpg
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Izvestia now describes itself as a "national newspaper" of Russia. The newspaper was owned by a vast holding company of Vladimir Potanin which had close ties with the government.{{cn|date=February 2024}} A controlling stake in Izvestia was purchased by state-owned Gazprom on 3 June 2005, and included in the Gazprom Media holding.{{cn|date=February 2024}} According to the allegations of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Raf Shakirov, editor-in-chief of Izvestia, was forced to resign because the government officials did not like the paper's coverage of the Beslan school hostage crisis.[http://www.cpj.org/attacks05/europe05/russia_05.html Attacks 2005: Europe and Central Asia]. Committee to Protect Journalists. 16 February 2006.[http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/9167-14.cfm Russia, Media, Gazprom, Izvestia – JRL 6March 2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204020150/http://cdi.org/russia/johnson/9167-14.cfm |date=4 February 2007 }} Other sources informed that Potanin had asked him to leave for fear the Kremlin would be riled by the explicit photographs of the massacre published by Izvestia.{{cn|date=February 2024}} As of 2005, the circulation of Izvestia was 240,967. Its 2007 circulation certified by TNS Gallup Media was 371,000 copies.{{cite news|title=Main papers|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4315129.stm|access-date=6 October 2013|publisher=BBC|date=16 May 2008}} Until his death on 1 October 2008, the chief artist was Boris Yefimov, the centenarian illustrator who had worked as Joseph Stalin's political cartoonist.
In 2008, Gazprom Media sold Izvestia to National Media Group.[http://www.nm-g.ru/en/about/ – About Us] National Media Group
In May 2024, the European Union accused the newspaper of spreading propaganda and placed it on its sanctions list.{{Cite web |title=EU ambassadors approve ban on number of Russian propaganda resources |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/15/7455896/ |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=Ukrainska Pravda |language=en}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp 170-76
External links
{{commons category}}
- {{Official website}} {{in lang|ru}}
- [https://adt.arcanum.com/en/collection/Izvestiya/ Archives] of Izvestia (1951–1989) via {{ill|Arcanum Newspapers|hu|Arcanum Újságok}}.
- [https://www.eastview.com/resources/gpa/izvestiia/ Archives] of Pravda (1917–2024) via East View Global Press Archive.
- [https://yandex.ru/archive/catalog/4b29b52e-1776-4d64-9eb6-4c4439cc7890/years Archives] of Izvestia (1917–2024) via Yandex Archive.
- [https://www.google.com/custom?q=Izvestia&sa=Google+Search&cof=GALT%3A0000CC%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2FWORLDMEETS.US%3BGL%3A0%3BVLC%3A0000FF%3BAH%3Aleft%3BBGC%3AE9f9E9%3BLH%3A90%3BLC%3A0000CC%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2FWORLDMEETS.US%2Fimagesui%2Fwalogo_siteid.gif%3BALC%3A0000CC%3BBIMG%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2FWORLDMEETS.US%2Fimages%2FUSAbkgd.jpg%3BLW%3A213%3BT%3A00354F%3BAWFID%3A834a24b6e0f3e242%3B&domains=WORLDMEETS.US&sitesearch=WORLDMEETS.US English translations of Izvestia articles at nonprofit WorldMeets.US]
- [http://nlr.ru/res/inv/ukazat55/record_full.php?record_ID=181482 "Izvestia" digital archives in "Newspapers on the web and beyond"], the digital resource of the National Library of Russia
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