RIA Novosti
RIA Novosti offers the latest coverage of major events in Russia and abroad that audiences can count on. We see our mission as providing an accurate picture of the day as it unfolds.
RIA Novosti is the most cited Russian news agency in the mass media and across social media.*
RIA Novosti provides 100% reliable information from trusted sources and its own correspondents in Russia and around the world.
RIA.RU reaches over 127 million unique visitors per month*
RIA Novosti’s continuously updated newswires carry the latest reporting from correspondents in more than 128 cities around the world. We also produce dozens of dedicated newswires on various topics and industries.
Each day RIA Novosti newswires deliver over 2,500 updates that can be accessed via an online terminal, by email, or via an FTP server or a mobile app.
Interviews and expert commentary, detailed game stats and rankings, live match tickers and more. RIA Novosti Sport covers the most important sporting events in the world of football, hockey, figure skating, biathlon, tennis and other sports.
Russian sports news agency
RIA Novosti Sport is Russia’s only sports news agency, and a source of up-to-the-minute reliable sports news and information for the media. It has an audience of over 7 million users, including on social media (Ya.Metrica, August 2024). According to Medialogia data for Q2 2024, R-Sport had the highest citation index among Russian sports news websites.
The agency focuses on covering major sports events in and outside Russia, as well as creating proprietary content, exclusive interviews and covering team sports and Olympic disciplines. The Ministry of Sport has regularly praised R-Sport’s journalists as the best professionals of the year in their segment, and the resource’s team received multiple agency and state-level accolades and awards. The sports news desk acted as the national host agency during the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and had the general media partner status in other major international sports competitions hosted by Russia.
RIA Novosti Realty brings you news on market events, commentary, expert columns and interviews. It isan important source of business information for professional participants in the real estate market and publishes announcements of the most important industry events, price reviews and analytics.
RIA Novosti Realty users have access to legal advice, visualization of new architecture projects, infographics and special projects dedicated to current trends in the real estate sector.
More than 1.4 million unique visitors per month*
>2.4 million visitors per month*
RIA Novosti Crimea is one of the leading information resources in the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. Its primary focus is on providing prompt, politically independent coverage of the news agenda. As part of RIA Novosti’s federal website, ria.ru, which has a daily audience of up to three million people*, it ranks as a leader among Russian-language news portals. In addition to news content, RIA Novosti Crimea offers photo and video reports, interviews, photo feeds, infographics, public opinion polls, and other multimedia formats. The RIA Novosti Crimea editorial office is located in Simferopol.
Sputnik in Crimea is a 24/7 information and analytical radio station broadcasting on FM and online. It was the first federal media outlet to start operating on the peninsula after Crimea’s reunification with Russia in 2014. It is a leading talk radio station in Crimea. With near-total population coverage across the region, it serves as a critical source of information for its listeners. Every day, Sputnik in Crimea broadcasts discussions on key political, economic, social, and cultural topics.
The media group "Rossiya Segodnya"’s Center for Economic Research "RIA Rating" conducts comprehensive economic research in financial, corporate and state sectors. Its rankings are widely cited by federal and regional media and are recognized at the state level as well as among the expert community. They are widely used as a tool for drafting regional economic policies, helping federal executive and legislative authorities assess the current socioeconomic situation, and guiding managerial decision-making.
RIA Rating publishes analytical bulletins by industry and region – regular publications that analyze the situation in the oil and gas, chemical, power generation, metals and engineering industries, as well as in Russia’s regions. RIA Rating analytical bulletins are used by government agencies, research institutes, and major corporations.
The digitized RIA Novosti Mediabank contains over 2.8 million images, with the latest photos from Russia and around the world added daily. Users also have access to archival photographs – a unique digitized collection dating back to the mid-19th century – as well as many thematic collections.
Rossiya Segodnya press photographers have won numerous prestigious international and Russian awards, including World Press Photo, Best of Photojournalism (BOP), Professional Photographer of the Year, Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA), China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP), Picture of the Year International (POYi) and others.
More than 3,4 million photos
Photo archive dating back to the mid-19th century
News Photographs
Archive Photographs
Sport Photographs
Editor's Choice
Official Russia
Thematic Collections
RIA Novosti was the first media outlet in Russia to routinely work in immersive formats. Today we release up to 10 projects per year using virtual and augmented reality technologies.
Using AR and VR encourages the audience to actively engage with content, gives users information as part of an interactive experience, and creates an emotional connection, immersing them in the story. Starting from 2021, some of our projects have become available in the big VR format on Steam.
RIA Novosti media projects in augmented and virtual reality have won Russian and international awards, including the Russian Culture Online Prize, Digital Communication Awards, Eventiada IPRA GoldenWorld Awards and others.
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