RIA Novosti

Russia · Media Production

RIA Novosti is a leading Russian multimedia group which incorporates the eponymous multimedia international news agency, a Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI), a business news agency PRIME, a sports news agency R-Sport, a rating agency RIA Rating, a publishing house Moskovskiye Novosti, or Moscow News and a wide network of media centers in Russia and abroad, as well as over 40 websites in 14 languages, with an overall audience of over 20 million unique visitors per month. The core of the RIA Novosti holding is the news agency, a revered and widely quoted source of timely and accurate news with an extensive network of correspondents in 69 Russian cities and 49 countries. It is an acclaimed and widely cited source of up-to-the-minute and verified information. The agency maintains over 50 newswires daily and covers social and political news, the economy, science and sports. The agency's exclusive content is formatted for and represented on LCD screens in public places, mobile television, 20 applications for mobile and tablet devices and on 120 pages on numerous social media sites. RIA Novosti is authorized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to cover the performance of Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.