RIA Novosti News Agency

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The history of RIA Novosti began on June 24, 1941, when it was established as the state-run Soviet Information Bureau (Sovinformburo).

Today, RIA Novosti operates as part of the Rossiya Segodnya media group. It provides prompt socio-political, economic, scientific and financial information in Russian and in major European and Arabic languages.

Complementing its information services, RIA includes the RIA Medibank, which is one of the largest of its kind in Russia. It maintains an extensive archive of more than three million color and b/w negatives, slides and digital photographs, offering a comprehensive view of Russia and the world since the beginning of the century.

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