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Gazeta.ru (Russian: газета.ru) is a Russian news site based in Moscow and owned by Rambler&Co. It covers politics, business, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, culture and sports. Gazeta.ru is one of the most popular Russian language news sources with over million visitors daily. Gazeta.ru was launched in 1999. Once controlled by Vladislav Borodulin, former editor-in-chief of the business daily Kommersant, Gazeta.ru was sold in 2005 to Sekret Firmy, a publishing house owned by Alisher Usmanov. It was later ceded by Usmanov to SUP Fabrik. In 2012 Alisher Usmanov sold his interest in SUP Media to Alexander Mamut. In 2013 companies SUP Media and Rambler-Afisha were united in the Combined company Afisha.Rambler.SUP (from 2014 Rambler&Co). Gazeta.ru features continually updated breaking news, photo and video, user-submitted comments. Gazeta.ru is also known for its editorials, op-eds, columns and online interviews with politicians and economists. Editor in chief: Svetlana Babaeva

RIA Novosti is a leading Russian multimedia group which incorporates the eponymous multimedia international news agency, a Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI), a business news agency PRIME, a sports news agency R-Sport, a rating agency RIA Rating, a publishing house Moskovskiye Novosti, or Moscow News and a wide network of media centers in Russia and abroad, as well as over 40 websites in 14 languages, with an overall audience of over 20 million unique visitors per month.The core of the RIA Novosti holding is the news agency, a revered and widely quoted source of timely and accurate news with an extensive network of correspondents in 69 Russian cities and 49 countries. It is an acclaimed and widely cited source of up-to-the-minute and verified information. The agency maintains over 50 newswires daily and covers social and political news, the economy, science and sports. The agency’s exclusive content is formatted for and represented on LCD screens in public places, mobile television, 20 applications for mobile and tablet devices and on 120 pages on numerous social media sites. RIA Novosti is authorized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to cover the performance of Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.