REGNUM News Agency is a Russian nationwide online news service disseminating news from Russia and abroad from its own correspondents, affiliate agencies and partners. REGNUM covers events in all regions of Russia as well as neighboring countries in

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and the

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. REGNUM press centers are located in

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(Armenia). REGNUM is licensed under mass media service, registration certificate No. El 77-6430 issued on 6 August 2002. REGNUM is a registered trademark, certificate No. 262482.

History

The REGNUM family of agencies started functioning on 19 June 1999. REGNUM was founded by Boris Sorkin and on 22 July 2002.

Editors-in-chief

Kolerov served as editor-in-chief until 2005 when he was replaced by Konstantin Kazenin. Modest Kolerov served again as editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2012. Vigen Hakobyan became editor-in-chief again in 2012.

Editorial policies

It is rumored that Regnum editorial office employees greet each other with a special greeting, "СФО", which in Russian means "Death to the Fascist Occupiers". In an interview by editor-in-chief of Regnum, Vigen Akopyan to the Russian portal , the principal claimed "anti-fascist" position of the agency was explained as to oppose Russian investment in any country whose politics are hostile to Russia or which is promoting the rehabilitation of

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–era Nazism and fascism. Although Akopyan did not say what country he had in mind, Russian journalists figured out it was Estonia.

Regional bureaus

The system of REGNUM News Agency includes regional bureaus in the Russian territory and abroad: * St. Petersburg bureau (based in

) * Central bureau (

) * Central Russian bureau (

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) * Northern bureau (

) * Upper Volga bureau (

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) * Povolzhye bureau (

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...

) * Lower Volga bureau (

Volgograd Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), geographical renaming, formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stal ...

) * Caucasian bureau ( Nalchik) * Siberian and Far East bureau (

) * Transcaucasian bureau (

) * Ural bureau * South-Western bureau * Central Asian bureau * REGNUM-VolgaInform (

Samara Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara (Volga), Samara rivers, with ...

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) * REGNUM-KNEWS (

) * SeverInform (

)

Correspondents

REGNUM News Agency has an extended correspondent network (about 400 correspondents) in Russia and neighboring countries.

Audience

According to TNS Gallup Media survey of Moscow audience of Russian online news services, managers and specialists prevail among REGNUM audience – 72% (

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– 63%,

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– 64%). In November–December 2006, MASMI-Russia company conducted the 11th survey of Runet audience Online Monitor. REGNUM newsline is read more by managers (28.3% of REGNUM audience comparing to 20.3% of Runet average).

Controversy

Estonia's Security Police (KaPo) in its 2005 yearbook laid a claim according to which REGNUM had been designed as a tool in Russia's state propaganda machine operating under direction of Modest Kolerov, at the time the head of an agency within President

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's administration. The claim stated that in essence, REGNUM is not a news outlet as it presents itself, but an umbrella for Russia's secret services operations in countries of the so-called "near abroad", which efforts are directed to promoting Russia's geopolitical agenda. As Russia's foreign policy tool REGNUM has been instrumental in encouraging opposition to energy independence plans in the Baltic states, contributing to the negative popular vote on the question of a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania. Since 2011, the agency has become unpopular in Turkmenistan. In a report circulated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Turkmen diplomats repeatedly expressed their dislike of the agency, claiming that it systematically disseminates inaccurate, biased information about their country. In December 2016, three REGNUM journalists were arrested in Belarus, accused of "inciting enmity between the Belarusian and Russian peoples", extremism, negative assessments of the Belarusization policy pursued by

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (as transliterated from Russian language, Russian; also transliterated from Belarusian language, Belarusian as Alyaksand(a)r Ryhoravich Lukashenka;, ; rus, Александр Григорьевич Лука� ...

's government. Citizens of Belarus Dmitry Alimkin, Yury Pavlovets and Sergey Shiptenko spent 14 months in pre-trial detention center No. 1. In February 2018, they were sentenced to five years in prison under Part 3 of Art. 130 of the

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, "Extremism" with a three-year suspension of sentence and a ban on leaving Belarus.

Awards

In 2006, REGNUM was awarded the National Prize of Russia "

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". In 2008, REGNUM was awarded the "Media-Peacemaker-2008" of the Guild of Interethnic Journalism in the category "Internet".

Notes

References

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