Country | Russia |
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Broadcast area | Worldwide |
Network | VGTRK |
Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Russian |
Picture format | 576i SDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Russian government |
Sister channels | Russia-1, Russia-2, Russia-K, Carousel, RTR-Planeta |
History | |
Launched | 1 January 2007 |
Former names | Vesti (2006–2010) |
Links | |
Website | http://vesti.ru/ |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital terrestrial television | Channel 7 |
Streaming media | |
russia.tv | Russia 24. Live |
Russia-24 ( Russian: Россия-24, romanized: Rossiya-24) is a state-owned Russian-language news channel from Russia. It covers major national and international events as well as focuses on domestic issues. It is owned by VGTRK. [1] [2]
The broadcast began January 1, 2007 in Russia, February 7 on the West Coast of the United States, May 19, 2008 in Serbia, and October 9, 2008 in Kyrgyzstan. VGTRK Crimea started broadcasting on March 10, 2014.
The editor-in-chief of the channel is Evgeny Bekasov (since 2012).
The channel ostensibly aims to give a broad and impartial [2] outline of life in all of Russia’s regions from its European exclave of Kaliningrad to Vladivostok in the Far East. The channel was named Vesti until 1 January 2010, when the public-owned VGTRK rebranded its channels.
Russia-24 was banned in Ukraine, Moldova, the United Kingdom, and the European Union as a result of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [3] The channel falsely claimed that the Bucha massacre was staged and suggested that footage of actors placing mannequins on a film set in St. Petersburg were Ukrainian soldiers using the mannequins to "pass it off as a corpse". [4]
The United Kingdom and Australia imposed sanctions upon Evgeniy Poddubny, one of the top war correspondents and propagandists of Russia-24. [5] [6]