Russia
1. AIF.ru (Argumenty i Fakty)
HTTPS address: aif.ru
Owner: AIF Media
Year established: 1980
Circulation: around 1.5 million per week
2. TASS (Telegrafnoye Agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza)
HTTPS address: tass.ru
Owner: Russian state-owned
Year established: 1904
Circulation: Approximately 1.2 million per week
3. Vedomosti
HTTPS address: vedomosti.ru
Owned by Damian Kudryavtsev
Year established: 1999
Circulation: Approximately 100,000 daily
The European Union has decided to restrict the distribution of Russian news sources such as RT and Sputnik.
RT (Russia Today)
HTTPS address: rt.com
Owner: Russian state-owned
Year established: 2005
Circulation: Approximately 70 million monthly (on website)
Sputnik
HTTPS address: sputniknews.com
Owned by the Russian state, part of the Rossiya Segodnya media group.
Year established: 2014
Circulation: Approximately 30 million monthly (on website).