Russia Today or RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which delivers the latest news on current events from around the word and brings the Russian view on global news.

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Russian TV channel in English Language and for English Audience
Russia Today or RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel
which delivers the latest news on current events from around the word and
brings the Russian view on global news.
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Origin of "Russia Today" Brand
This Russian government-funded television network broadcasts the news and
shows different opinions on various Russia bound and worldwide events. It
operates television channels directed to audience outside of Russia and
provides internet content in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and, of
course, Russian. RT is represented as a brand of "TV-Novosti" (autonomous
non-profit organization), founded by the Russian news agency, RIA Novosti.
"Russia Today" was officially created and publicly announced on 6 April 2005.
Accusations of and Claims against RT
From the start of broadcasting, the RT network was described by foreign
media as the source of propaganda on behalf of the Russian government and
its foreign policy. It has also been accused by many of spreading the twisted
information by news reporters. For instance, the UK media regulator, Ofcom,
at some time in the past, found RT as being impartial and spreading the
"materially misleading" content. RT was even compared with Russian Army
and Defense Ministry that wages war against the entire Western world. In
September of 2017 the USA branch of RT (RT America) was obliged to
register as a "foreign agent" with the United States of Justice and be
accountable to the US for its financial activities.
RT was intended to create a positive image of Russia
The creation of RT was initiated as the project of public relations by the
Russian government in 2005. The key intention was to make a positive image

2. of Russia in the west and abroad in general. According to official sources the
project was conceived by Mikhail Lesin, former media minister, and Alexsei
Gromov, V. Putin's spokesperson. When RT was just found, the director of
RIA Novosti stated that "in the minds of people thinking about Russia come up
the images of communism, snow and poverty", and later added" that "we
would like to change the negative association with Russia and present to the
world the more complete and bright picture of life in our country".
Russian TV as the autonomous non-profit organization funded by
Russian Federal Agency
The Russia Today TV was registered as an autonomous non-profit
organization with financial support from the federal budget of Russia via the
Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian
Federation. Back in 2005 the RIA Novosti team helped establish ANO TV-
Novosti (Autonomous Non-profit Organization TV-News) which had to be like
a parent for the intended channel. ANO TV-Novosti was registered on the 6th
of April in 2005. The first person who occupied the CEO position of the ANO
TV-Novosti company was Sergey Frolov.
How and when RT was launched
The Russia Today TV channel was launched on December 10, 2005. At the
start of the channel operation about 300 journalists were employed, nearly 70
of them were from outside of Russia. Margarita Simonyan was appointed as
its editor-in-chief who actually recruited foreign journalists as presenters and
consultants. She stated that the intent of the channel was to impart a
professional look and format to the Russian international TV broadcasting like
that of BBC and Euronews that would reflect the Russia's true opinion of the
world and display the more balanced picture of Russia.
Who managed RT
Margarita was 25 when she was hired to work for the channel. By that time
she had already worked for some time as a Kremlin pool reporter and actually
started her career as a journalist when she was 18. When interviewed by the
New York Times she said that after the collapse of the Soviet Union many
young journalists were invited and that's why Russia Today channel had a
much younger stuff than any other news organizations. Being the guest on
RT, journalist Danny Schechter stated that from the standpoint of a launching
team of CNN he saw RT as the adventurous channel consisting mostly of
young but experienced and enthusiastic people who know perfectly what they
are doing. Within a short while after the RT channel was launched. James

3. Painter wrote that Russia Today has similar views to what France24 and
TeleSUR have, offering diverse visions of facts and events as opposed to
western media like CNN and BBC.
Branch Channels of "Russia Today"
Within the next few years RT launched several new channels: Rusiya AL-
Yaum channel in Arabic language in 2007, RT Actualidad channel in Spanish
in 2009, RT America channel in English meant for highlighting the events
occurring in the United States, and the RT Documentary channel in 2011.
RT broadcast from North Pole and New Year's Eve events
In August of 2007 the RT was the first TV channel to be broadcasted live from
the North Pole (the report lasted for 5 minutes and 41 seconds). The RT live
broadcasting from the NP was for a reason. Its crew was invited to participate
in the Arktika 2007 polar expedition which was led by Artur Chilingarov on the
Akademik Fyodorov Icebreaker. On the 31th of December of 2007, RT
broadcasted the New Year' Eve celebrations in Moscow and Saint Petersburg,
just a few hours prior to the New Year's Eve event at New York City's Times
Square.
Rebranding for attraction of more viewers
In 2009, Russia Today was rebranded to a shorter "RT" name. According to
Simonyan the name change was just to attract more viewers who was
interested in watching news from Russia as they were, without bias and
prejudice. RT is actually one of the international TV channels that challenge
international and USA media news coverage. Read more..