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In reply to the discussion: Putin’s media head threatens to turn US into “radioactive ash” [View all]dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)On 9 December 2013 President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed the liquidation of RIA Novosti and merging it with the international radio service Voice of Russia to create International Information Agency Russia Today.[2] Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselev, a former anchorman of the Channel One Russia is appointed as the president of the new information agency. It is unclear at the moment whether the new agency will include the TV network Russia Today.[3][12] According to her interview, the editor-in-chief of the TV network Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan was completely unaware about the reorganization of the information agency and got the information from listening competitor radio station Kommersant-FM.[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti
The website is maintained in that name due to worldwide familiarity with the name.