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Izvestia

Izvestia (Russian: Известия, IPA: [ɪzˈvʲesʲtʲɪjə], "The News") is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. Founded in February 1917, Izvestia, which covered foreign relations, was the organ of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, disseminating official state propaganda.[2] It is now described as a "national newspaper" of Russia.

For other uses, see Izvestia (disambiguation).

Type

Daily newspaper

Broadsheet

National Media Group

Inews (News Media)

Arseniy Ogenesyan

13 March 1917 (1917-03-13)

Russian

Begovoy District, Moscow, Russia

234,500[1]

0233-4356

427395058

iz.ru

The word izvestiya in Russian means "bring news" or "tidings", "herald" (an official messenger bringing news), derived from the verb izveshchat ("to inform", "to notify").

Izvestia Moskovskogo Soveta Rabochikh Deputatov

Mass media in Russia

Pravda

Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp 170-76

(in Russian)

Official Izvestia website

English translations of Izvestia articles at nonprofit WorldMeets.US

the digital resource of the National Library of Russia

"Izvestia" digital archives in "Newspapers on the web and beyond"

Media related to Izvestia at Wikimedia Commons