- Argumenty i fakty
"Argumenty i Fakty" ( _ru. "Аргументы и факты", commonly abbreviated "АиФ" - English: "Arguments and Facts") is a weekly newspaper based in
Moscow and apublishing house inRussia and worldwide. As of 2008, it is owned byPromsvyazbank and the newspaper is edited byNikolay Zyatkov .Alexei Bessudnov, "Media Map" (183–189), "Index on Censorship", Volume 37, Number 1, 2008, p. 185.]According to its own claim, [ru icon [http://web.archive.org/web/20060206043523/http://www.aif.ru/online/All Издания «АиФ»] (Izdaniya 'AiF', "Editions of 'AiF'"), version of 6 February 2006, originally on official site, archived on the
Internet Archive .] it used to have the largest circulation in the world. In 1990 it had a print run of 33.5 million and was entered in "Guinness World Records ". Its current circulation (as of 2008) is about 3 million copies, with about 7 million readers.It was founded in 1978 by the Russian organisation "Knowledge" («3нание») to provide propagandists with statistical and other hard-to-find information.In 1980 "AiF" was transformed into a weekly but was not in wide circulation. It was available only by subscription to a closed circle of political 'spinners'. After 1985, it was one of the leading publications in the
Glasnost campaign.Notes
External links
* [http://www.aif.ru Official website]
* [http://www.aif.ru/adv/history AiF history]
* [http://www.eastview.com/argumenty_i_fakty.asp Argumenty i Fakty archive, digitized and fully searchable]
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