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RIA Novosti

state-operated domestic Russian-language news agency
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Summary

RIA Novosti is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,852 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Russia[3]
  • Instance of: online newspaper[4], news agency[5], enterprise[6]
  • Publisher: Rossiya Segodnya[7]
  • Owned by: Rossiya Segodnya[8]
  • Headquarters location: Moscow[9]
  • Child organization or unit: ANO TV-Novosti[10]
  • Commons category: RIA Novosti[11]
  • Language of work or name: Russian[12]
  • Industry: news media[13]
  • Has part(s): R-Sport[14]
  • Inception: June 24, 1941[15]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: December 2013[16]
  • Parent organization or unit: Rossiya Segodnya[17]
  • Distributed by: Google Play[18], App Store (Apple)[19]
  • Official website: https://ria.ru[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:RIA Novosti[21]
  • Main subject: news[22]
  • Described at URL: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/fr/press/press-releases/2024/05/17/russia-s-war-of-aggression-against-ukraine-council-bans-broadcasting-activities-in-the-european-union-of-four-more-russia-associated-media-outlets/[23]
  • Product or material produced: news[24]
  • Described by source: Open GLAM Survey[25]
  • Replaces: Novosti Press Agency[26]
  • Legal form: unitary enterprise[27]
  • Main Wikidata property: P6081[28], P13880[29], P14700[30]
  • Native label: РИА Новости[31]
  • Owner of: ukraina.ru[32]

Product Details

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  • Type: Other[33]

  • Country: RU[34]

  • Began / founded: 1941-06-24[35]

  • MusicBrainz ID: a550b0e7-b6eb-472b-ae12-7adda6e01514[36]

Why It Matters

RIA Novosti has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] It is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Related Entities

business Margarita Simonyan news agency online newspaper Russia Vagit Alekperov

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . eurotopics.net. eurotopics.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Open GLAM Survey, version of 3 August 2021. Retrieved . docs.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · Ђидо · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 47
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en',
    Logo image → Rian logo.gif, RIA Novosti.png
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Logo image: RIA Novosti.png"
  2. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → E252-07AF-9218-5D84-0EC4
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  3. 11w ago · ZI Jony · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main wikidata property → P6081, P13880, P14700
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Main wikidata property: P14700"
  4. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3VMeUu
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  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0292524-Agenstvo-pecati-Novosti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0292524-Agenstvo-pecati-Novosti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  6. 21w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Inception → —
    Main wikidata property → P6081, P13880, P14700
    Main subject → news
    + 38 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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