''Vremya'' (russian: Вре́мя, lit. "Time") is the main evening newscast in

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, airing on

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(Russian: , Pervy kanal) and previously on

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of the Central Television of the USSR (CT USSR,

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: ). The programme has been on the air since 1 January 1968 (there were no broadcasts from August 1991 to December 1994) and has broadcast in color since 1974.

Editorial line

In the Soviet days of ''Vremya'', the programme had a pro-

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bias and typically did not report on news that could potentially fuel anti-government sentiment. The programme presented reports that promoted

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and portrayed the

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in a negative manner. The newsroom was tied to the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee. This situation changed after

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, when a director of news was introduced alongside the news being sourced from official outlets. This made CT USSR report accurately on the collapse of the Soviet Union's satellite communist countries in Eastern Europe in 1989. This also made Vremya to be shown uncensored and critical, triggering the protests that hastened the end of the Soviet Union. In the Russian Federation era, ''Vremya'' became a "flagship propaganda outlet" of the government. Reporting during the

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featured the Kremlin's messaging, at the same time independent news outlets were shut down.

Schedule and popularity

''Vremya'' is produced in three daily editions, scheduled for transmission in Moscow at 13:00, 17:00 and 21:00 local time (= UTC+3), the last of these having been the programme's main edition ever since its inception in 1968. Given the country's vast size (it stretches over eleven time zones) editions of ''Vremya'' are also broadcast (either live or deferred) at Moscow time plus two, four, six, and eight hours, according to locality. During the Soviet era, the programme's main edition was also carried simultaneously on the primary channel of each republican station:

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, Georgian Public Broadcasting, Kazakhstan-1, Channel 1 of the Kiev Telecentre, LTV1, Lithuanian National Radio and Television, Uzbekistan 1, etc. The program was also simulcast in autonomous republics as well. Since the premier in 1968, Vremya has been aired via satellite. The

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lasts 30 minutes, but in special circumstances (more especially during the Soviet era), the broadcast is extended beyond the 30 minutes allotted when necessary (such as the

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state ceremonies and parades,

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telecasts together with other CPSU-led activities, plenary sessions of the

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, and deaths of Soviet leaders

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and

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). Even highlights of the celebrations of the Union-wide holidays were also broadcast. Starting in the mid-1970s, another 30-minute late edition was presented on the All-Union Programme (launched in 1956) around 11:00 pm. (This was in the form of a live simulcast of ''Vremya'' in the next ''Orbita'' transmission zone, occasionally a repeat of the 9:00 pm programme, especially in the European USSR.) Prior to that, both channels aired ''Vremya'' simultaneously at 9:00 pm, then repeated the next morning when the First Programme

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around 7:30 am (later 6:30 am) after the exercise programme, before airing children's programming and schools and colleges programmes, all produced together with the USSR Ministry of Education and were also seen on Programme 4. Later, a live morning edition was shown at 6:30 am, before the breakfast programme ''120 minut'' (which continues today on Channel One Russia as ''Dobroye Utro'',

: ) on weekdays (on weekends Vremya aired at 8:00 am after sign-on). News summaries were added as the transmissions increased during the day. There was a bulletin at the end of the morning and midday programmes (i.e. around 1:00 pm), an afternoon edition at 3:00 pm, and another at 6:30 pm on the first channel. From 1989, the latter bulletin began to use the two presenter format of ''Vremya'', as well as the ''Vremya'' moniker, and its corresponding studio and graphics (including the title sequence and theme music), looking as it was the program's first edition (the 6:30 am program was the morning news edition while the one at 1 pm was the midday update), with the 9:00 pm telecast as the second (main) edition and the one at 11:00 pm as the third or late edition or the late night replay. The All-Union Programme's daytime schedule always began with the news at around 15:00. Midnight newscasts did not appear until the 1980s, when the First Programme screened a headline update preceding the closedown sequence, usually after midnight. All of these bulletins were known as ''Novosti'' (

: , "The News"). From 1989, the 15:00 news round-up on the All-Union Programme and the midnight news round-up on the First Programme were known as ''TSN: Television News Service'' (

: TCH: , ''TSN:Televizionnaya sluzhba novostey''), which ended in 1991. Today the news on Channel One Russia follows a similar schedule to this one, with Vremya, Novosti, and the all-Russian and regional news updates. The majority of Russians rely on ''Vremya'' as a trusted news source. Between 1980 to 1984, and since 1986, ''Vremya'' has used the theme song from

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as its signature tune and opening sequence. In a two-week test that lasted from 12 to 23 February 1990, more than 100

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member stations across the United States broadcast ''Vremya''. The test was coordinated by

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. The test was then extended for another two weeks, but was not carried by all of the same stations.

Coverage during the last days of the USSR

After the introduction of the ''

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'' and ''

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'', ''Vremya'' loosened its fidelity to the party line and began presenting fair reports about the events transforming Eastern Europe at the time. On 15 March 1989 150 million Soviet citizens watched as the station aired an 85-page speech by Gorbachev to a ''plenum'' of the

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criticizing the poor state of agriculture and setting out the case for reforms, the highlights of that address being featured on that day's telecast. In the 1980s, 86% of Soviet adults relied on television coverage as their primary source of news. Yet ''Vremya'' was seen as "a joke" by many Soviet citizens due to its poor coverage of news events. The coverage of the

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, for example, was often relegated to lesser news items during the ongoing coverage of the disaster; in contrast, western news media such as ''

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'' led with the story for six consecutive weekdays. Following the evacuation of the nuclear workers'

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, ''Vremya'' issued the following brief announcement: In 1987 the program logo appeared for the first time in its studio. 1988 saw a big change for the newscast as its studios featured picture backdrops for the first time, and debuted a new logo, with a styled letter В in a box (this was the year of its 20th anniversary). On 19 August 1991 it showed pictures of the impending coup d'etat in Moscow for the first time, albeit in the new styled studios which opened in 1990. Vremya covered highlights of the March 1989 elections for the

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and the sessions of the Congress in Moscow, making interviews with its leadership and deputies.

Transition

The last Soviet-era ''Vremya'' newscast was broadcast on 27 August 1991 and replaced with another news programme known as ''TV-Inform'' ( ru: ) the following day. The closure was due to pressure from RSFSR President

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claiming that the programme was "too tied to the

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", but according to the news anchors themselves it was due to CT USSR being forced to lay off a large number of their staff which were said to be

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agents. When the USSR dissolved in December that year, the programme, now ''Novosti Ostankino'', changed broadcasters from Soviet Central Television to the new Ostankino Television 1 and 4. During the network's name change to ORT-1 (Public Russian Television-1,

: ) in April 1995, and Ostankino 4's earlier 1994 reformatting into

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, the newscast was integrated as part of the ''Novosti ITA'' brand of newscasts with the 9pm edition being the flagship. ''Vremya'' returned on 16 December 1994, in time to report on the looming conflict in Chechenya. The format was then changed to that of a single-presenter one, but the dual-presenter one was kept for special editions of the program, and was even incorporated into the newscast's 1995-99 opening sequence. Special New Year's Day openers debuted in 1998, in celebration of the program's 30th anniversary. On 1 January 2018 the program celebrated its 50th anniversary. Russian President

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visited the studio and congratulated the staff for the occasion.

''Sunday Vremya''

On Sundays since the late 1980s, the programme also has a separate Sunday edition, initially called ''Seven Days'' (, ''Sem' d'nei''), since 2003 known as ''Sunday Vremya'' (, ''Voskresnoe Vremya'', Sunday Time). This programme also airs a roundup of the week's news. Until its launch, ''Vremya'' was shown as per Monday-Saturday. ''Sunday Vremya'' debuted on the then Programme One of Soviet Central Television in 1989.

2022 anti-war protest

During a live ''Vremya'' broadcast related to the

, on 14 March 2022, employee

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appeared behind the news anchor, Ekaterina Andreeva, holding a poster, made visible to millions of viewers, which stated, in a mix of Russian and English:

Presenters

Soviet-era edition

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Igor Kirillov Igor Leonidovich Kirillov (russian: Игорь Леонидович Кириллов, 14 September 1932 – 29 October 2021) was a Soviet and Russian news presenter, announcer and actor. He was a news anchor for Soviet Central Television (CT U ...

- chief presenter until the 1980s, reporting on major events such as the Red Square ceremonies and overseas visits of the Soviet leader * Maya Sidrova * Evgeny Suslov * Gennady Chetrov * Evgeny Kochergin * Inna Ermilova * Elena Kovalenko * Anna Shatilova * Yuri Kovelenov * Tatyana Sudets *

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* Aza Lihitchenko * Galina Zimenkova * Nonna Bodrova * Sergey Medvedev * Leonid Elin * Igor Fesunenko

Russian Federation-era edition

* Igor Vykhuholev: 1994–2003 * Nelly Petkova: 1994–1996 * Tatiana Komarova: 1994–1995 * Igor Gmyza: 1995–1999 * Alexandra Buratayeva: 1995–1999 * Arina Sharapova: 1996–1998 *

Sergey Dorenko Sergey Leonidovich Dorenko (russian: Сергей Леонидович Доренко; 18 October 1959 – 9 May 2019) was a Russian TV and radio journalist, known for hosting a weekly news commentary program in 1999–2000. Biography In 1982, ...

: 1996–1999 (Information-analytic programme ''"VREMYA with Sergey Dorenko"'') * Kirill Kleimyonov: 1998–2005, 2018–2020 *

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: 1998–2007 *

Pavel Sheremet Pavel Grigorievich Sheremet (russian: Павел Григорьевич Шеремет, be, Павел Рыгоравіч Шарамет, 28 November 1971 – 20 July 2016) was a Belarusian-born Russian and Ukrainian journalist who was impriso ...

: 1999–2001 (Information-analytic programme ''"VREMYA"'', Saturday) * Andrey Baturin: 2003–2005: (''"VREMYA"'' at night, literally ''"Night time"'') * Pyotr Marchenko: 2003–2005 * Olga Kokorekina: 2007–2008 * Pyotr Tolstoy 2005–2012 (Information-analytic programme ''"Sunday VREMYA"'') * Maxim Sharafutdinov: 2007–? (Summer releases to the Far East and Siberia + CIS and other countries) * Dmitry Borisov: 2011–2017Первый канал. Официальный сайт. Лица
/ref> * Irada Zeinalova: 2012–2016 (Information-analytic programme ''"Sunday VREMYA"'') *

Valery Fadeyev Valery Aleksandrovich Fadeyev (russian: Вале́рий Алекса́ндрович Фаде́ев; born 10 October 1960) is Russian journalist and public figure. Former secretary of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. Biography Vale ...

: 2016–2018 (Information-analytic programme ''"Sunday VREMYA"'')

Current presenters

* Ekaterina Andreeva: 1997–present *

Mikhail Leontyev Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontyev (russian: Михаи́л Влади́мирович Лео́нтьев; born 12 October 1958) is a Russian political commentator currently working on national TV Channel One (Russia), Channel One. He is known for h ...

: 1999–present * Vitaly Eliseyev: 2007–present * Andrei Ukharev: 2018–present (Information-analytic programme "''Sunday VREMYA''") * Ekaterina Berezovskaya: 2020–present (Information-analytic programme "''Sunday VREMYA''")

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