Sputnik (news agency)

"Radio Sputnik" redirects here. For other uses, see Radio Sputnik (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Sputnik (search engine), which is also launched in 2014.
Sputnik
Headquarters Moscow, Russian Federation
Area served Worldwide
Parent Rossiya Segodnya
Website sputniknews.com
Alexa rank Increase 1,719 (October 2015)[1]
Type of site News and Media
Available in Abkhazian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belorussian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Moldavian, Norwegian, Ossetian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Urdu, Uzbek and Vietnamese
Launched 10 November 2014
Current status Active

Sputnik is an international multimedia service launched on 10 November 2014 by Rossiya Segodnya, an agency wholly owned and operated by the Russian government, which was created by a Decree of the President of Russia on December 9, 2013.[2] Sputnik replaces the RIA Novosti news agency on an international stage (which remains active in Russia)[3] and Voice of Russia. According to its chief Dmitry Kiselyov, Sputnik intends to counter the "aggressive propaganda that is now being fed to the world".[4]

Radio Sputnik is the audio element of the platform and aims to "operate in 30 languages in 2015, for a total of over 800 hours a day, covering over 130 cities and 34 countries on "FM, DAB/DAB+ (Digital Radio Broadcasting), HD Radio, as well as mobile phones and the Internet."[5]

Controversy

In a 2016 analysis Center for European Policy Analysis concluded that the station provides extremely biased information, for example by inviting only a selected group of commenting politicians, known for anti-liberal and pro-Russian views.[6] German magazine Die Zeit describes it as a part of Russia's information war against the West. [7]

Alexander Podrabinek, a Russian journalist who works for the French-funded Radio France Internationale[8][9] and the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty[10] has called Sputnik a tool of Russian state propaganda distribution abroad.[4] Foreign Policy described it as a slick and internet-savvy outlet of Kremlin propaganda.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "sputniknews.com Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ Pizzi, Michael (December 9, 2013). "Putin dissolves RIA Novosti news agency". Al Jazeera America.
  3. ↑ "Sputnik launched to news orbit: Russia’s new intl media to offer alternative standpoint". RT. November 11, 2014. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Laetitia, Peron (20 November 2014). "Russia fights Western 'propaganda' as critical media squeezed". Yahoo! News. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "About Us". Sputnik. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Sputnik. Propaganda in a New Orbit" (PDF). Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  7. ↑ "Und...Action!". Die Zeit. 9 August 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  8. ↑ Davidoff, Victor (October 13, 2013). "Soviet Psychiatry Returns". The Moscow Times. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  9. ↑ Judan, Ben (October 1, 2009). "Reporter says criticism of Soviets brought threats". The San Diego Union Tribune.
  10. ↑ "Автор: Александр Подрабинек" (in Russian). Radio Liberty.
  11. ↑ Elias, Groll (November 10, 2014). "Kremlin’s ‘Sputnik’ Newswire Is the BuzzFeed of Propaganda". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 24 January 2015.

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