RIA Novosti

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RIA Novosti
Company typeFederal State Unitary Enterprise
IndustryNews agency
Founded24 June 1941 (1941-06-24) (as Sovinformburo)
SuccessorRossiya Segodnya
HeadquartersZubovsky Boulevard 4, Moscow, Russia
Key people
ProductsWire service
OwnerRossiya Segodnya (owned and operated by federal government, as unitary enterprise)
ParentGovernment of Russia
Websiteria.ru

RIA Novosti (Russian: РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN (РИАН) or RIA (РИА), is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013 by a decree of Vladimir Putin it was liquidated and its assets and workforce were transferred to the newly created Rossiya Segodnya agency.[1] On 8 April 2014, RIA Novosti was registered as part of the new agency.[2]

RIA Novosti is headquartered in Moscow. The chief editor is Anna Gavrilova.