''Pravda Vostoka'' (russian: Правда Востока, lit. The Truth of the East) is a

Russian language Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the First language, native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European langua ...

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published in

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...

History and profile

The paper was founded in 1917 under the name ''Nasha gazeta'' (Наша газета, ''Our newspaper''). It was given its current name in 1924, and was the main Russian language newspaper of the

Uzbek SSR Uzbekistan (, ) is the common English name for the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR; uz, Ўзбекистон Совет Социалистик Республикаси, Oʻzbekiston Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikasi, in Russian: Уз� ...

. It had a print run of 250,000 newspapers (1975). Abbashon Usmanov was appointed

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of the daily in July 2006.

References

External links

Official site
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