It’s difficult to find news from Russia in English due to the language barrier. The internet is full of news websites but it can be difficult to sort through all of them at once. This is where Top Russian News Websites Online comes in handy. We have ranked the most popular Russian news websites based on traffic, social media following, domain authority, and freshness.
The Moscow Times
The Moscow Times is an English-language daily newspaper published in Moscow, Russia. It was founded by Mikhail Gorbachev and a group of journalists who defected from Pravda at the end of 1991. The paper has been controlled by businessman Yevgeny Klimov since 2013. In 2006, a controlling stake in the paper was bought by an international media company, Independent Media (Moscow) Ltd., which is owned by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev.
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TASS – Russian News Agency
TASS is the leading Russian state information agency, a legend of national news journalism. With us news becomes stories and events become history. TASS was established in November 1918 as the Sovnarkom’s Telegraph Agency (Sovinformtorg), under the sponsorship of Lenin and Trotsky. It was launched on 23 November 1918 as “a transmission belt” to help the country’s Revolutionary institutions abroad to relay release information and proclamations to their home country
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Russia Beyond the Headlines
Russia Beyond has grown into a global internet news network with online, television and radio broadcasting. The channel is the most watched news channel on YouTube.
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RT
Russia Today is a TV news channel for English-speaking audiences. The channel has been broadcasting in the UK and the US since 2005, and in the rest of the world since 2006. The channel is owned by Russia Today, an autonomous non-profit organization founded by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former chief of staff, Aleksei Gromov. RT strives to provide viewers outside of Russia with a Russian perspective on major global events.
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The Real Russia, Today
Meduza is a Russian-speaking international, independent media company and online newspaper. Launched in Latvia in 2014, it’s now headquartered in Prague. Meduza provides daily news reports and feature stories about Russia and the former Soviet Union that are written by some of the top professionals in the industry.
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