RIA Novosti to Be Liquidated in State-Owned Media Overhaul

Kremlin and St. Basil's file photo

MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) ­ The Kremlin announced Monday the dissolution of RIA Novosti, the country’s major state-run news agency, amid a significant reorganization of state-owned media assets. News agency RIA Novosti and the state-owned Voice of Russia radio will be scrapped and absorbed into a new media conglomerate called Rossiya Segodnya, according to a decree signed by President […]

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