Soviet Information Bureau ( (
Sovetskoye informatsionnoye byuro), commonly known as
Sovinformburo (Совинформбюро)) was a leading Soviet
news agencyA news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to organizations in the news trade: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. Such an agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire or news service.-History:The oldest news agency is...
in 1941 - 1961. It was established on June 24, 1941, shortly after the opening of the Eastern Front of World War II by a directive of Sovnarkom and the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionThe Central Committee, abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, "Tse-ka", was the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Its full name was Центральный комитет Коммунистической партии Советского Союза = ЦК КПСС; Tsentralnyy Komitet Kommunistitcheskoy Partii Sovetskogo Soyuza = TsK KPSS, or...
"to bring into the limelight international events, military developments, and day-to-day life through printed and broadcast media." During the war Sovinformburo directed the activity of the All-Slavonic Committee, Anti-Nazi Committee of Soviet Women, Anti-Nazi Committee of the Soviet Youth, Anti-Nazi Committee of Soviet Scientists and the
Jewish Anti-Fascist CommitteeThe Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed in Kuibyshev in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities...
(JAC).
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Soviet Information Bureau ( (
Sovetskoye informatsionnoye byuro), commonly known as
Sovinformburo (Совинформбюро)) was a leading Soviet
news agencyA news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to organizations in the news trade: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. Such an agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire or news service.-History:The oldest news agency is...
in 1941 - 1961. It was established on June 24, 1941, shortly after the opening of the Eastern Front of World War II by a directive of Sovnarkom and the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionThe Central Committee, abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, "Tse-ka", was the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Its full name was Центральный комитет Коммунистической партии Советского Союза = ЦК КПСС; Tsentralnyy Komitet Kommunistitcheskoy Partii Sovetskogo Soyuza = TsK KPSS, or...
"to bring into the limelight international events, military developments, and day-to-day life through printed and broadcast media." During the war Sovinformburo directed the activity of the All-Slavonic Committee, Anti-Nazi Committee of Soviet Women, Anti-Nazi Committee of the Soviet Youth, Anti-Nazi Committee of Soviet Scientists and the
Jewish Anti-Fascist CommitteeThe Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed in Kuibyshev in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities...
(JAC). In 1944, a special bureau on propaganda for foreign countries was set up as part of Sovinformburo. In 1961 Sovinformburo was transformed into Novosti Press Agency. Today its successor is RIA Novosti.