NEWSru

NEWSru.com was a Russian online news site,[1] based in Moscow, which had a government-critical orientation.[2]

NEWSru.com
Type of site
News site
Available inRussian, Ukrainian
OwnerVladimir Gusinsky
URLnewsru.com
newsru.co.il
newsru.ua
CommercialYes
RegistrationFree/Subscription
LaunchedAugust 28, 2000
Current statusRussian branch is inactive from May 31, 2021 (news archive publicly available), Ukrainian branch inactive since 2017, Israeli branch active

History
Empty office of NEWSru.com

NEWSru.com was originally launched in 2000[3] at the address ntv.ru. When the government took over the NTV network in 2000, with the network becoming part of OAO Gazprom Media,[4][5] the site remained part of the media empire of former NTV owner, oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky.[6][7]

Yelena Bereznitskaya-Bruni replaced the initial Editor in Chief Igor Barchugov in 2001.[8]

In October 2002 the news site moved to another domain name, NEWSru.com[9][10] and the original domain ntv.ru was transferred to the broadcasting company by mutual agreement.

On May 31, 2021, the site announced it would discontinue its news reporting "for economic reasons, but ones caused specifically by the political situation in our country",[11] but that the "entire archive accumulated over 21 years of work" would remain available.

The Israeli branch newsru.co.il remains in operation.

As of 2021, most of the former Russian site is now under a Creative Commons "Attribution" license.

Headquarters and team

NEWSru was based in Moscow, but its editorial team and location were kept secret. The network had two foreign editions: a website in Israel started in December 2005 (newsru.co.il), and a Ukrainian edition based in Kiev, which was discontinued in March 2017.[2][12]

Chief editor Olga Leni admitted that the Ukrainian publication had been subsidized for the entire 10 years of its existence, and the site had never been self-supporting. Other former employees agreed that the site was closed due to a pro-Ukrainian pronouncement on the conflict in Donbas.[12]

Projects

In addition to the basic site, the NEWSru service owned a number of special interest news sites.

Among its defunct projects was 2004.newsru.com, devoted in real time to the 2004 Russian presidential election.[13]

References
  1. Yulikova, Maria (February 2008). "My Media". Index on Censorship. 37 (1): 179–182. doi:10.1080/03064220701882772. Archived from the original on 2009-09-01.
  2. "newsru.com". eurotopics.net. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  3. Soldatov, Andrei; Borogan, Irina (2015). The Red Web. The Kremlins Wars on the Internet.
  4. Khaitina, Natalia (2001-04-16). "NTV and NTV.ru — two big differences" (in Russian). Netoscope. Archived from the original on 2006-01-05. Alt URL
  5. Khaitina, Natalia (2001-04-19). "NTV.ru left Ostankino" (in Russian). Netoscope. Archived from the original on 2012-07-23.
  6. "NTV.ru server revealed" (in Russian). Netoscope. 2000-08-28. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Alt URL
  7. Khaitina, Natalia (2000-08-28). "NTV.ru site opened before the target date" (in Russian). Netoscope. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Alt URL
  8. www.omnesmedia.com. "News RU". www.omnesmedia.com. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  9. Goncharov, Konstantin (2002-10-18). "NTVRU.com changes the name" (in Russian). Compulenta. Archived from the original on 2008-03-08. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
  10. "Update your "Favourites". The new name of our site is NEWSru.com" (in Russian). NEWSru.com. 2002-10-23.
  11. "NEWSru.com :: Спасибо всем, кто был с нами в течение 21 года". 31 May 2021.
  12. "Популярный портал NEWSru.ua закрылся | Газета «День»".
  13. "Presidential elections 2004 - Media". BalticData.info. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
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