Argumenty i Fakty
Owner(s)Government of Moscow
Founder(s)All-Union Organisation "Knowledge"
Founded1 January 1978 (1978-01-01)
LanguageRussian
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
Circulation2,750,000 (February 2008)
Websiteaif.ru

Argumenty i Fakty (Russian: Аргументы и факты, commonly abbreviated "АиФ" and translated as Arguments and Facts)[1] is a weekly newspaper based in Moscow and a publishing house in Russia and worldwide. Since 2014, it has been owned by the Government of Moscow.[2]

History and profile

It was founded in 1978 by the All-Union Organisation "Znanie" (Knowledge) and was published throughout the whole Soviet Union for lecturers, propagandists, political agitators. In 1980 AiF was transformed into a weekly but was available only by subscription. In late 1980s, it was one of the leading publications in the Glasnost period. AiF was listed in the Guinness Book of Records with the largest circulation of any weekly publication.[3] In 1990 it had a print run of 33.5 million.[4] With the fall of the Soviet Union, publication of it was discontinued in countries outside the Russian Federation. As of 2008, the circulation was about 3 million copies, with about 8 million readers.[5] More specifically its February 2008 circulation was 2,750,000.[6] During this time, it was owned by Promsvyazbank and the newspaper was edited by Nikolay Zyatkov.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Andrei G. Richter (1995). "The Russian Press after Perestroika". Canadian Journal of Communication. 20 (1). doi:10.22230/cjc.1995v20n1a842. Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Московское правительство купило "Аргументы и факты"". Lenta.ru. 11 March 2014. Archived from the original on 19 July 2022.
  3. ↑ "About "Argumenty I Fakty"". АиФ. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  4. ↑ Smorodinskaya, Tatiana; Evans-Romaine, Karen; Goscilo, Helena (2013). Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. Routledge. p. 29. ISBN 978-1136787867.
  5. 1 2 Alexei Bessudnov, "Media Map" (183–189), Index on Censorship, Volume 37, Number 1, 2008, p. 185.
  6. ↑ "Main papers". BBC. 16 May 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
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