Interfax (russian: Интерфакс) is a

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. The agency is owned by Interfax News Agency

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and is headquartered in

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History

As the first non-governmental channel of political and economic information about the USSR, Interfax was formed in September 1989, during

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’s ''

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and glasnost'' period, by Mikhail Komissar and his colleagues from

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station '

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', a part of Soviet Gosteleradio system. Interfax originally used

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for text transmission, hence the company name.
Михаил Комиссар: задача «Интерфакса» — быть номером один
'. — TV-channel ' Russia-24', 9 September 2009. By 1990, Interfax had 100 subscribers and the agency quickly began to attract the attention of conservatives within the government, who attempted to shut down the agency. This saw the agency gain prominence in major western media, a position strengthened by its coverage of the 1991 August Putsch and the

collapse of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

.Корпоративный бюллетень
Ваш Интерфакс
�. — #10/2009. Interfax-presscentreMoscow2016

Interfax continued to expand in the 1990s, adding

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agencies for

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markets, information products on

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

, business law,

transport Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, an ...

telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

, and the market data terminal 'EFiR information system' for

stock market A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include ''securities'' listed on a public stock exchange, as ...

players to its general news coverage.
About
'. — Official site of EFiR system. Interfax also opened subsidiaries across the

post-Soviet states The post-Soviet states, also known as the former Soviet Union (FSU), the former Soviet Republics and in Russia as the near abroad (russian: links=no, ближнее зарубежье, blizhneye zarubezhye), are the 15 sovereign states that wer ...

, first in Ukraine (1992), Belarus (1993) and Kazakhstan (1996), and later in Azerbaijan (2002),
Our history
'. — Official site of Interfax Group. during this time bringing the number of local offices across the regions of Russian Federation to 50.
Михаил Комиссар: «Надеюсь, в России установится баланс между либеральным и государственным»
'. — Politcom.ru, 1 September 2006. To promote its information products abroad, Interfax opened its first company outside the former USSR in 1991, when 'Interfax America' was opened in

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, CO. This was followed by the opening of

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-based 'Interfax Europe Ltd.' (1992), 'Interfax Germany GmbH', based in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

(1993), and the 'Interfax News Service Ltd.' in

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(1998). In 2004, Interfax created the 'SPARK system' designed to check business agents in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan,
Информация по юридическим лицам РФ, Украины и Казахстана
'. — Official site of Interfax Group. Interfax also launched

media monitoring Media monitoring is the activity of monitoring the output of the print, online and broadcast media. It is based on analyzing a diverse range of media platforms in order to identify trends that can be used for a variety of reasons such as political, ...

services through its 'SCAN system'.
About
'. — Official site of United Credit Bureau. In 2011, the company added London-based project, 'Interfax Global Energy', which reports on the

energy market Energy markets are national and international regulated markets that deal specifically with the trade and supply of energy. Energy market may refer to an electricity market, but can also refer to other sources of energy. Typically energy developme ...

s worldwide.
Interfax Global Energy
'. — Official site of Interfax Global Energy.

Partnerships

In 1999, Interfax launched a

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in partnership with

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to provide rating services on the

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. SPARK system became the basis for a

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with

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, a provider of business credit information and

credit report :''This article deals with the general concept of the term credit history. For detailed information about the same topic in the United States, see Credit score in the United States.'' A credit history is a record of a borrower's responsible repa ...

s.
Информация по компаниям всего мира
'. — Official site of Interfax Group. Also in 1999, Interfax and Reuters signed a cooperation agreement. Since 2001, Interfax has collaborated with

Business Wire Business Wire is an American company that disseminates full-text press releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases, bloggers, s ...

, which distributes corporate regulatory disclosures and

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s. Interfax also offers consumer

s via a joint venture with

Experian Experian is an American–Irish multinational data analytics and consumer credit reporting company. Experian collects and aggregates information on over 1 billion people and businesses including 235 million individual U.S. consumers and more t ...

and

Sberbank of Russia PJSC Sberbank (russian: Сбербанк, initially a contraction of russian: сберегательный банк, translit=sberegatelnyy bank, lit=savings bank, link=no) is a Russian majority state-owned banking and financial services compan ...

.
About
'. — Official site of United Credit Bureau.

Management

'Interfax Group'

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includes Mikhail Komissar as Chairman of the Board and CEO, Vladimir Gerasimov,

Executive Director Executive director is commonly the title of the chief executive officer of a non-profit organization, government agency or international organization. The title is widely used in North American and European not-for-profit organizations, though ...

and General Director of Financial and Business Information Service, Georgy Gulia, Executive Director of General Information Service.
Management
'. — Official site of Interfax Group.

Content

Interfax provides general and political news, business

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, industry analysis,

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and business solutions for

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, compliance and

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management. The company employs over 1,000 staff in over 70 bureaus worldwide and publishes over 3,000 stories each day.

Dissemination

Interfax controls around 50% of the Russian corporate data market.Информационно-справочные системы
. - RBC.Marketing. Subscription-based business and

financial intelligence Financial intelligence (FININT) is the gathering of information about the financial affairs of entities of interest, to understand their nature and capabilities, and predict their intentions. Generally the term applies in the context of law enfo ...

contribute to the bulk of the revenues generated by Interfax with IT-analytical business solutions accounting for approximately 75% of revenue.Комиссар М.
Успеть первыми
'. - Корпоративный бюллетень «Ваш Интерфакс», #16/2014. Interfax's

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comprises more than 30 news producing and marketing companies in

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(

Interfax-Ukraine The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukraine, Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company pub ...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

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, the

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, the

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and

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.Гавшина О., Товкайло М.
Из списка подлежащих раскрытию бенефициаров сделали исключения
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Vedomosti ''Vedomosti'' ( rus, Ведомости, p=ˈvʲedəməsʲtʲɪ, ) is a Russian-language business daily newspaper published in Moscow. History ''Vedomosti'' was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Dow Jones, who publishes ''The Wall ...

, January 19, 2012.

Awards

In 2015, Interfax was awarded the Runet Prize in the category "Culture, Media and Mass Communications". In 2016, Interfax was awarded the Runet Prize in the category “Economy, Business and Investment".

References

Literature

* Boyd-Barrett O.
Interfax: Breaking Into Global News
'. — Scotforth Books, 2014. — p. 184. — * Shrivastava K. ''News Agencies: From Pigeon to Internet''. — Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 2007. — p. 208. — * Герасимов В., Ромов Р., Новиков А., Бондаренко С., Бабиченко С.
Технология новостей от Интерфакса
' / Под ред. Ю. Погорелого. — Moscow: Аспект Пресс, 2011. — 160 с. —

External links

* * , official site * Кондратьев В.
Героические страницы истории «Интерфакса»
'. —

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TV-channel, 9 September 2009. *
20 лет «Интерфаксу»
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Echo of Moscow Echo of Moscow (russian: links=no, Эхо Москвы, translit=Ekho Moskvy) was a 24/7 commercial Russian radio station based in Moscow. It broadcast in many Russian cities, some of the former Soviet republics (through partnerships with local r ...

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