Russia-24

Russia-24
Россия-24
Country	Russia
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Network	VGTRK
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Programming
Language(s)	Russian
Picture format	576i SDTV
Ownership
Owner	Russian government
Sister channels	Russia-1, Russia-2, Russia-K, Carousel, RTR-Planeta
History
Launched	1 January 2007; 17 years ago
Former names	Vesti (2006–2010)
Links
Website	http://vesti.ru/
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television	Channel 7
Streaming media
russia.tv	Russia 24. Live

Russia-24 (Russian: Россия-24, romanized: Rossiya-24) is a state-owned Russian-language news channel from Russia. It covers major national and international events as well as focuses on domestic issues. It is owned by VGTRK.^[1]^[2]

History

The broadcast began January 1, 2007 in Russia, February 7 on the West Coast of the United States, May 19, 2008 in Serbia, and October 9, 2008 in Kyrgyzstan. VGTRK Crimea started broadcasting on March 10, 2014.

The editor-in-chief of the channel is Evgeny Bekasov (since 2012).

The channel ostensibly aims to give a broad and impartial ^[2] outline of life in all of Russia’s regions from its European exclave of Kaliningrad to Vladivostok in the Far East. The channel was named Vesti until 1 January 2010, when the public-owned VGTRK rebranded its channels.

Russia 24 was banned in Ukraine, Moldova, the United Kingdom, and the EU as a result of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[3] The channel falsely claimed that the Bucha massacre was staged and suggested that footage of actors placing mannequins on a film set in St. Petersburg were Ukrainian soldiers using the mannequins to "pass it off as a corpse".^[4]

The United Kingdom and Australia imposed sanctions upon Evgeniy Poddubny, one of the top war correspondents and propagandists of Russia-24.^[5]^[6]