Izvestia 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. It is now described as a "national newspaper" of Russia.
Front page of the Izvestia newspaper from 15 June 2012.
Izvestiia Newspaper Building in Moscow
Pravda is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million. The newspaper began publication on 5 May 1912 in the Russian Empire, but was already extant abroad in January 1911. It emerged as the leading government newspaper of the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1912 and 1991.
First issue, 5 May 1912 (22 April 1912 OS)
First published Pravda dated 5 May 1912 (22 April 1912 OS)
A delegate at Bolshevik 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party holding a Pravda newspaper in 1934
A soldier reading Pravda during the Second World War, late 1941