RIA Novosti
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RIA Novosti, sometimes referred to as RIAN or RIA, is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013, by a decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, it was liquidated and its assets
Novosti news stall in East Berlin, 1984
The newsroom of the agency, 2008
RIA Novosti bureau in Washington D.C.
Soviet Information Bureau
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Soviet Information Bureau, commonly known as Sovinformburo was a leading Soviet news agency, operating under that name from 1941 to 1961 when its name changed to RIA Novosti.
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…of People's Commissars and the Communist Party Central Committee, "On the Establishment and Tasks of the Soviet Information Bureau", the state-run Soviet Information Bureau (Sovinformburo) was set up under the USSR Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee. Its main task was to oversee work covering…
The final Sovinformburo operational summary, 15 May 1945