RT is a Russian state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government. It operates pay television and free-to-air channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in Russian, English, Spanish, French, German and Arabic.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits RT offices with Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan
Dmitry Medvedev took part in the launch of RT Documentary
Vladimir Putin during a visit to the new RT broadcasting centre
RT studios building in Moscow in 2013
RIA Novosti, sometimes referred to as RIAN (РИАН) or RIA (РИА), is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013, by a decree of Vladimir Putin, it was liquidated and its assets and workforce were transferred to the newly created Rossiya Segodnya agency. On 8 April 2014, RIA Novosti was registered as part of the new agency.
Novosti operated this East Berlin news stall in 1984.
The newsroom of the agency, 2008
RIA Novosti bureau in Washington DC