Sovetskaya Rossiya
Circulation 300.000 (as of 2007) | | |
| Website | sovross.ru | |
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Sovetskaya Rossiya (Russian: Советская Россия, Soviet Russia) is a political newspaper in Russia. It kept its name after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 and presently presents itself as a leftist independent newspaper. Its current editor is MP Valentin Chikin.
History
Sovetskaya Rossiya was first published on July 1, 1956. On January 1, 1974, it became the official press organ of the
circulation
was 2,700,000 copies. In 2007, the circulation was 300 000, the newspaper is published three times a week.
Political tendency
The newspaper has friendly ties with the
I Cannot Forsake My Principles", an infamous Stalinist critique of Gorbachev.[1]
Rossiya Tournament
The newspaper arranged the
Rossiya Tournament, an international bandy competition held every other year in Russia in 1972–1990. This tournament lived on for another two decades, but from 1992 it was called the Russian Government Cup
and was arranged by the Russian government instead.
References
- ^ Remnick, David (1993). Lenin's Tomb. USA: Random House. pp. 72, 438.
External links
Media related to Sovetskaya Rossiya (newspaper) at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in Russian)
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