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Izvestia is a long-running high-circulation daily newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
in Russia

Russia

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Izvestia is a long-running high-circulation daily newspaper

Newspaper

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. The word "izvestiya" in Russian

Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
means "delivered messages", derived from the verb izveshchat ("to inform", "to notify"). In the context of newspapers it is usually translated as "news" or "reports".

Origin

The newspaper began as the News of the Petrograd Soviet
Petrograd Soviet

The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, usually called the Petrograd Soviet, was the Soviet in Saint Petersburg , Russia established in March 1917 after the February Revolution as the representative body of the city's workers....
of Workers Deputies on in Petrograd. Initially, the paper expressed Menshevik

Menshevik

The Mensheviks were a faction of the Russian revolutionary movement that emerged in 1903 after a dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, both members of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party....
and Socialist-Revolutionary Party

Socialist-Revolutionary Party

The Socialist-Revolutionary Party was a Russian political party active in the early 20th century....
views.

In August 1917 it took the title News of the Central Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. By October 1917 it became News of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Working and Military Deputies, and was eventually retitled Izvestiya Sovetov Narodnykh Deputatov SSSR.

After the Second All-Union Congress of Soviets, Izvestia became an official newspaper of the Soviet government (Central Executive Committee of the Supreme Soviet

Supreme Soviet

Soviet history

During the Soviet

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
period, while Pravda
Pravda

Pravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1912 and 1991....
served as the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest Communist Party in the world....
, Izvestia expressed the official views of the Soviet government as published by the Presidium

Presidium

The presidium or pr?sidium is the name for the executive committee of various legislative and organizational bodies.In Communist states the presidium was the permanent executive committee of legislative bodies such as the Supreme Soviet in the USSR....
of the Supreme Soviet

Supreme Soviet

The Supreme Soviet of the USSR was the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments....
of the USSR. The full name was Izvestiya Sovetov Narodnykh Deputatov SSSR (in Russian, ???????? ??????? ???????? ????????? ????, the Reports of Soviets of Peoples' Deputies of the USSR).

Recent history

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Izvestia, describes itself as an "all-national" newspaper of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. The newspaper was owned by a vast holding company of Vladimir Potanin

Vladimir Potanin

Vladimir Olegovich Potanin , is a self-made Russian oligarch. His partner has been Mikhail Prokhorov. He acquired his wealth through the controversial loans-for-shares programme in Russia....
which has close ties with the government. Control stake of Izvestia was purchased by state-owned Gazprom

Gazprom

OAO Gazprom is the largest extractor of natural gas in the world and the largest Economy of Russia.Total gas production in Russia in 2007 was 23.1 Trillion cubic feet, of which 85 percent was produced by Gazprom; with reserves of , it controls 16 percent of the List of countries by natural gas proven reserves ....
on Friday 3 June, 2005, and included in the Gazprom Media

Gazprom Media

Gazprom Media is the largest Russian media holding founded in 1998 as a subsidiary of Gazprom. In 2001 it acquired NTV Russia, the only nationwide state-independent television in Russia of the time, as well as other media assets of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media Most holding, which raised a major controversy and caused considerable changes in the...
holding. According to the allegations of the Committee to Protect Journalists

Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization based in New York, New York, United States, that promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists, similar to Reporters Without Borders....
, Raf Shakirov, editor-in-chief of Izvestia, was forced to resign because the government officials did not like the paper's coverage of the Beslan school hostage crisis

Beslan school hostage crisis

The Beslan school hostage crisis began when a group of armed terrorists, demanding an end to the Second Chechen War, took more than 1,100 people hostage on September 1, 2004, at School Number One in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia-Alania, an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation....
. Other sources informed that Potanin had asked him to leave for fear the Kremlin would be riled by the explicit photographs of the massacre published by "Izvestiya." As of 2005, the circulation of Izvestia is 240,967. Until October 1, 2008, the current chief artist was Boris Efimov

Boris Efimov

Boris Yefimovich Yefimov was a Soviet Union and Russian politics cartoonist and propaganda artist best known for his political caricatures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazis produced before and during World War II, and was the chief artist of the newspaper Izvestia....
, the 107 year-old illustrator who worked as Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
's political cartoonist.

Izvestia

Origin

Soviet history

Recent history

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