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'''Sputnik''' is an international multimedia news service launched on 10 November 2014 by the Russian Federation owned and operated agency, [[Rossiya segodnya]]. Sputnik replaces the [[RIA Novosti]] news agency and [[Voice of Russia]]. '''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, digital DAB/DAB+ (Digital Radio Broadcasting), HD-Radio, as well as mobile phones and the Internet."<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |work=Sputnik |url=http://sputniknews.com/docs/about/index.html |accessdate=9 December 2014}}</ref> The news service operates a television channel in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name=AFPnov14/>
'''Sputnik''' is an international multimedia news service launched on 10 November 2014 by the Russian Federation owned and operated agency, [[Rossiya segodnya]]. Sputnik replaces the [[RIA Novosti]] news agency and [[Voice of Russia]]. '''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, digital DAB/DAB+ (Digital Radio Broadcasting), HD-Radio, as well as mobile phones and the Internet."<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |work=Sputnik |url=http://sputniknews.com/docs/about/index.html |accessdate=9 December 2014}}</ref> The news service operates a television channel in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name=AFPnov14/>

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Sputnik
Type of site
News, analysis, radio
Available inAbkhazian, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, English, German, Spanish, Kyrgyz,Hindi and Turkish
Headquarters
Moscow
,
Russian Federation
Area servedWorldwide
ParentRossiya Segodnya
URLsputniknews.com
Launched10 November 2014
Current statusActive

Sputnik is an international multimedia news service launched on 10 November 2014 by the Russian Federation owned and operated agency, Rossiya segodnya. Sputnik replaces the RIA Novosti news agency and Voice of Russia. 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, digital DAB/DAB+ (Digital Radio Broadcasting), HD-Radio, as well as mobile phones and the Internet."[1] The news service operates a television channel in the United Kingdom.[2]

Reception

Alexander Podrabinek has called Sputnik a tool of Russian state propaganda distribution abroad,[2] and has likened it to a pro-Putin version of the Daily Mail and described it as "anti-Western".[3]

References

  1. ^ "About Us". Sputnik. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  2. ^ a b Laetitia Peron (20 November 2014). "Russia fights Western 'propaganda' as critical media squeezed". Yahoo News. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  3. ^ Elias Groll (10 November 2014). "Kremlin's 'Sputnik' Newswire Is the BuzzFeed of Propaganda". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 24 January 2015.

External links

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