Russian information channel “Russia 24” Russian information channel “Russia 24” is the undisputed leader of fieldwork with the most important events – maximum live broadcasts, crews in the very action, access to true-to-fact information. Three quarters of Russians note that “Russia 24” is the main source of information for them and more than half of the respondents states that they watch the TV channel regularly.
According to the information and analytics system Medialogiya, “Russia 24” holds the highest citation index among Russian TV channels in 2023. TV channel “Russia 24” has created a single information space in the country, providing one-time access to the news to everyone from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad.
The Russian news agency TASS, the country's first unified body for distributing official information, turned 121 on September 1, 2025.
Regional information centers in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Pyatigorsk, Vladivostok and Rostov-on-Don, in addition to 67 offices in Russia’s regions, along with 59 global branches in 54 countries enable TASS to quickly receive and disseminate unbiased information about events in Russia and the world to the widest possible audience.
TASS subscribers have access to a wide range of topic-oriented services across 70 news feeds in all official UN languages - English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and French.
The TASS Mediabank boasts 65 mln pieces of content.
RIA Novosti is the flagship website of the Rossiya Segodnya media group. The agency’s correspondent network covers over 120 cities in the world. The agency is the most quoted Russian media outlet, including on social media. RIA Novosti’s total audience on social media is around 17 million subscribers.
The TV BRICS International Media Network was established in 2017, following the BRICS summit in Xiamen, China. TV BRICS is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.
TV BRICS is the newest system of multilateral information exchange between the media of the BRICS+ countries. The partners interact through the TV BRICS multilingual portal and the 24-hour TV channel of the same name.
More than 100 major media outlets from 30 countries act as permanent partners of TV BRICS, and the media network's information presence reaches 80 countries. The total technical coverage of the TV BRICS partner network exceeds 1.5 billion users.
The mission of TV BRICS is to create a unified information space for BRICS on the basis of equal cooperation between all countries and to disseminate objective information on humanitarian and economic activities of the BRICS members and partners.
As an international partner, TV BRICS provides communication and information support for major international events in the BRICS+ countries and media support for the activities of government authorities, state, non-profit, and public organisations.
MIC Izvestia is the first multimedia information center in Russia. MIC Izvestia includes Internet news portal IZ.ru, 24/7 news channel Izvestia (IZ.RU), Izvestia newspaper, Delovoy Peterburg newspaper, the news services of REN TV channel and Channel Five, and regional TV Channel 78.
MIC Izvestia is a multi-purpose platform for generating multi-format information content (TV, print, online). Monthly online audience of MIC Izvestia is about 100 mln people, TV audience – 85 mln people. MIC Izvestia is constantly getting into the top 5 news online sources according to LiveInternet.
NTV is an international commercial television channel in Russia that broadcasts federally. The channel is consistently among the top three leaders of the national TV market, annually reducing the gap to the second place.
The NTV channel is a pioneer in the development of new television genres and formats. The basis of the broadcast is a wide range of content comprising of news, social and political talk shows, films, series, entertainment shows, educational programs, documentaries and social projects. The channel's library exceeds 52,000 hours of the original content, 18,000 of which are films and series. The TV channel is also actively creating socially significant and charity projects.
NTV sets trends in the news broadcasting – the channel was the first in the history of the Russian television to introduce a dual newscasting model. The Information Department of NTV operates as a round-the-clock news channel. It produces 37 newscast spots daily and the maximum daily duration of live broadcasting is 10 hours and 26 minutes. Among the hallmarks of NTV are such news programs as “Today”, “Emergency State”, “Weekly Overview”, “The Central Television with Vadim Takmenev”, “Meeting Point”, “Own Truth” and others.
The newspaper Vedomosti, published by Business News Media JSC, has for 25 years confirmed its indisputable authority on the market of leading economic and business media in Russia.
Vedomosti is a reliable and up-to-date newspaper that focuses on companies’ news and markets and allows the readers to make their own opinion on all issues of the economy and business processes, macroeconomic development and the influence of political factors on them; it is an objective and relevant analytical information for managers and decision-makers, expert commentary on issues of concern to the business community, interviews with contemporary figures in their fields. Vedomosti’s editorial policy fully meets the demands of its readers for deliberated, analytical, and objective coverage of events in both business and political areas.
Top managers and business owners constitute the major part of Vedomosti’s audience (49%), which proves the high standards of business reporting.
Apart from the newspaper and the web-page (www.vedomosti.ru), Vedomosti includes a wide range of standalone projects and supplements.
"Kommersant" is the first private business publication in Russia. It is one of the oldest publishing houses and one of the most authoritative and influential media structures in the country. Its core principles are promptness, reliability, and objectivity.
The media assets of the Publishing House "Kommersant" include: the daily newspaper "Kommersant," the magazine "Kommersant WEEKEND," the monthly automotive magazine "Kommersant AVTOPILOT," a line of glossy supplements "Kommersant STYLE" covering news and trends in fashion and lifestyle, a range of industry-specific and event-related supplements to the newspaper, and the radio station "Kommersant FM."
The expertise of "Kommersant" is trusted by top managers in state-owned companies, top executives in business, and the intellectual elite.
“RG Media” is a media holding with a 30—year history that provides timely and reliable information about the most significant events of federal, regional and international scale 24/7. It explores news, reports, exclusive interviews, and comments from statesmen and influential representatives of business, political and cultural life of the country in all digital formats and print.
The media holding includes:
“Rossiyskaya Gazeta” , a daily print publication that is the leader in terms of the volume of the federal audience among daily socio-political newspapers.
“Rossiyskaya Gazeta – Nedelya”, a weekly issue for family reading, offering its audience not only key topics analytics for the week, but also explaining federal initiatives and significant events in the country in an accessible way.
“Rodina”, a monthly historical magazine with a 145–year history.
RG.RU, an information portal that occupies a leading position in terms of the site's audience among the media.
Lenta.ru is the largest federal online media in Russia, included in the top 5 most cited Internet resources in Russia (according to Medialogy, 2023), and is also one of the most viral media on the Russian-language Internet (Brand Analytics, 2023). Lenta.ru is a multiple winner of the Runet Prize, the finalist of TEFI-Multimedia and of a number of other industry awards and competitions. Lenta.ru is a part of the media holding Rambler&Co.
Gazeta.Ru is the socio-political online media, one of the top 3 most cited Internet resources in Russia (according to Medialogy, 2023). The media which around the clock covers the common Russian and world agenda and also shapes it with its exclusive materials. Gazeta.Ru is a part of the media holding Rambler&Co.
News Media Holding is a Russian media company. It was founded in 2001.
The holding includes such projects as LIFE, Mash, SHOT, Super, the author's show "Алёна, блин!", the Gigarama laboratory, the newspaper "Жизнь", five public, «Mash на Мойке», etc.
The media holding annually creates unique projects and closes all segments of the country's target audience. News Media Holding has 202 media platforms, 44 subjects of the Russian Federation — the coverage of a regional network of communities, 37 million — the audience on social networks, 2.061 billion — the average monthly reach on social networks. The holding's media projects create content that becomes a reference point for others, and at the same time changes the modern culture of information consumption in Russia.
1MI is a diversified communications holding that manages several federal publications and one of the largest regional networks of socio-political online media in Russia.
The holding’s assets are currently located in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Stavropol, Mineralnye Vody, Krasnodar, Vladikavkaz, Ufa, Izhevsk, Kazan, Petrozavodsk, Vladivostok, Rostov-on-Don, Omsk, Tyumen, Volgograd, Orenburg, Belgorod, Nizhny Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Abakan, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Perm.
The holding’s media resources attract a monthly audience of over 300 million views and more than 20 million unique visitors. 1MI is also actively expanding as a full-service communications agency, providing a comprehensive range of PR services. For the past five years, the holding has been a leader in working with news aggregators.
TechInsider (formerly Popular Mechanics) is a unique media brand that explores how the world works.
Every day, on every TechInsider platform, editors explain the nature of the world around us and introduce readers to major scientific discoveries, advanced technologies, innovative developments and unusual gadgets in language that makes the complex sound simple. The TechInsider ecosystem includes a website, magazine, social media presence, educational and informative video series, and special events.
The TechInsider mission: to make science understandable and interesting for everyone.
TechInsider has a combined digital audience of 10 million monthly users. TechInsider is a part of the Independent Media holding.
