Pravda International

Pravda International is a news organisation primarily based in Russia and the CIS, but with media outlets in Europe.[1]

Origins

Pravda, was the official government owned newspaper of the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1991. Founded as a workers’ daily, it published its first issue on May 5, 1912, in St. Petersburg. Vladimir Lenin was the first editor.[2]

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, several members of the Pravda editorial team formed a separate on-line version [3]

Pravda International was also created by former Pravda journalists, and two Greek businessmen who had invested millions in the original Pravda newspaper.[4] Pravda International went on to produce foreign language editions in the CIS and East Europe.[5]

There is also an online English edition which is mainly a news aggregator which links to other Russian news sites, but publishes its own editorials.[6]

According to the National Circulation Service for the CIS, the audit bureau of circulation for the region, Pravda International has a print circulation of 577,286 across CIS countries.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://pravdainternational.com/
  2. ↑ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/474092/Pravda
  3. ↑ http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/16-09-2013/125664-pravda_mccain-0/
  4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/31/world/russia-s-purveyor-of-truth-pravda-dies-after-84-years.html
  5. ↑ Androunas, Elena, (30 Sep 1993). Soviet Media in Transition: Structural and Economic Alternatives, p. 46. Greenwood Press, .ISBN 978-0275941475.
  6. ↑ http://pravdainternational.com/
  7. ↑ http://pravdainternational.com/
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