Pravda.ru
Russian news website
Pravda.ru (Russian: Правда.Ру, lit. 'truth'), formerly Pravda Online, is a Russian online newspaper established in 1999 and owned by Pravda.ru Holding headed by Vadim Gorshenin.
History
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the oldest Soviet paper founded in 1912, Pravda, split into two different papers. Significant members of the main editorial staff (Viktor Afanasiev, Gennady Seleznev, Yuri Zhukov, Vera Tkachenko and Vadim Gorshenin) left Pravda to form the online news and opinion website Pravda Online.
Pravda.ru was registered in November 1999 and has been published since January 27, 1999.
Following a court case the Pravda name was allowed to be used by both the newspaper owned by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Pravda Online run by journalists associated with the defunct Soviet Pravda.
In 2013 the website became notable in western media when then-US Senator John McCain published an opinion piece for it, confusing it for the Soviet-era paper of the same name.
Editorial policy and author composition
Editorial principles
The editorial team of Pravda.ru openly publishes its key working principles, including the criteria for selecting news, approach to information verification, editorial independence, and principles of interaction with readers. These principles are available for public access on the official website of the publication.
The website features an open authorship system: each journalist has a public personal page that reflects their biography, publication archive, and specialization.
In 2004, the editor-in-chief of Pravda.ru, Inna Novikova, stated in an interview that the website had surpassed the Soviet-era Political News Agency in terms of influence.
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