Russian News Agency (RIA Novosti)

RIA Novosti is Russia's number one media outlet, the state news agency, and the first of the three major Russian news agencies. The predecessor of RIA Novosti was the Soviet news agency founded in 1941. Today, RIA Novosti has branches in dozens of countries around the world, and is one of the most authoritative and largest news agencies in Russia and the world. RIA Novosti provides immediate, authoritative, accurate and objective information to a wide range of domestic and foreign news users. Today, RIA Novosti is not just a news agency in the traditional sense of the word, but a huge information platform, a global information service provider that combines news gathering, intelligence compilation, information dissemination and social resource integration.