{{Short description|Russian Internet-edition}} {{NPOV language|talk=NPOV language|date=February 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox company | name = REGNUM News Agency | logo = Logo of Regnum.png | type = News agency | industry = News media | founded = {{start date and age|2002|7|22|df=yes}} | founders = Boris Sorkin, {{ill|Modest Kolerov|ru|Колеров, Модест Алексеевич}} | hq_location_city = 2 Bersenevsky Lane, Balchug Island, Yakimanka District, Moscow | hq_location_country = Russia | key_people = Yulia Krizhanskaya (CEO)<br />Modest Kolerov (editor-in-chief) | products = | num_employees = | num_employees_year = <!-- Year of num_employees data (if known) --> | website = {{URL|regnum.ru}} }} '''REGNUM News Agency''' is a Russian nationwide online news service disseminating news from Russia and abroad from its own correspondents, affiliate agencies and partners. REGNUM covers events in all regions of Russia as well as neighboring countries in Europe, Central Asia and the South Caucasus. REGNUM press centers are located in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Pskov, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Kaluga, Yerevan (Armenia).
REGNUM is licensed under mass media service, registration certificate No. El 77-6430 issued on 6 August 2002. REGNUM is a registered trademark, certificate No. 262482.
== History == The REGNUM family of agencies started functioning on 19 June 1999. REGNUM was founded by Boris Sorkin and {{Ill|Modest Kolerov|ru|Колеров, Модест Алексеевич}}{{efn|On 28 February 2022, the European Union blacklisted him in connection with the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and froze all his assets.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32022R0336&from=EN |title=Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/336 of 28 February 2022 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine |journal=Official Journal of the European Union|volume=L|number=58|page=12|date=28 February 2022|access-date=2022-03-26}}</ref>}} on 22 July 2002.<ref>{{cite news|title=Об Агентстве|url=http://www.regnum.ru/information/about/ |language=ru|work=REGNUM News Agency|access-date=2022-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021013043834/http://www.regnum.ru/information/about/|archive-date=2002-10-13}}</ref>
== Editors-in-chief == Kolerov served as editor-in-chief until 2005<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newslab.ru/info/dossier/kolerov-modest-alekseevich|title=Колеров Модест Алексеевич — Президент Издательского Дома "Регнум" / Досье / Справка|language=ru|website=Newslab|access-date=2022-03-26}}</ref> when he was replaced by Konstantin Kazenin. Modest Kolerov served again as editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=В агентстве Regnum сменился главный редактор|url=https://radioportal.ru/news/kadrovye-novosti/v-agentstve-regnum-smenilsya-glavnyy-redaktor|language=ru |website=Radioportal|date=2014-10-02|access-date=2020-08-25}}</ref>
Vigen Hakobyan became editor-in-chief again in 2012.<ref>{{cite news|title=Редактор ИА REGNUM уволился из-за цензуры|url=https://rus.azatutyun.am/a/26642769.html|language=ru|work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=2014-10-17|access-date=2020-08-25}}</ref>
== Editorial policies == It is rumored that{{weasel inline|date=February 2022}} Regnum editorial office employees greet each other with a special greeting, "СФО", which in Russian means "Death to the Fascist Occupiers". In an interview by editor-in-chief of Regnum, Vigen Akopyan to the Russian portal {{ill|Gorod.lv|ru}}, the principal claimed "anti-fascist" position of the agency was explained as to oppose Russian investment in any country whose politics are hostile to Russia or which is promoting the rehabilitation of World War II–era Nazism and fascism. Although Akopyan did not say what country he had in mind, Russian journalists figured out it was Estonia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://baltija.eu/news/read/25568|url-status=dead|title=Информагентство "Регнум" не станет рекламировать Эстонию даже за деньги|language=ru|website=Baltija.eu|date=2012-07-15|access-date=2022-03-26|archive-date=18 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718032819/http://baltija.eu/news/read/25568}}</ref>
== Regional bureaus == {{Unreferenced section|date=March 2022}} The system of REGNUM News Agency includes regional bureaus in the Russian territory and abroad: {{colbegin}} * St. Petersburg bureau (based in Saint Petersburg) * Central bureau (Moscow) * Central Russian bureau (Voronezh) * Northern bureau (Arkhangelsk) * Upper Volga bureau (Yaroslavl) * Povolzhye bureau (Nizhny Novgorod) * Lower Volga bureau (Volgograd) * Caucasian bureau (Nalchik) * Siberian and Far East bureau (Novosibirsk) * Transcaucasian bureau (Yerevan) * Ural bureau * South-Western bureau * Central Asian bureau * REGNUM-VolgaInform (Samara, Cheboksary) * REGNUM-KNEWS (Krasnoyarsk) * SeverInform (Vologda) {{colend}}
== Correspondents == REGNUM News Agency has an extended correspondent network (about 400 correspondents) in Russia and neighboring countries.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}
== Audience == According to TNS Gallup Media<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tns-global.ru/rus/group/russian/media/ |title=TNS |website=tns-global.ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041021021341/http://www.tns-global.ru/rus/group/russian/media/ |archive-date=21 October 2004 |url-status=dead}}</ref> survey of Moscow audience of Russian online news services, managers and specialists prevail among REGNUM audience – 72% (Yandex News – 63%, NEWSru – 64%).<ref>{{cite news|title=Gallup: Среди читателей ИА REGNUM 72% - руководители и специалисты|url=https://regnum.ru/news/762315.html|language=ru|work=REGNUM News Agency|date=2006-12-28|access-date=2020-08-31}}</ref> In November–December 2006, MASMI-Russia<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.masmi.com/russia/en/default.asp |title=MASMI Research Group - Home Page |date=18 July 2007 |website= |accessdate=14 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070718030332/http://www.masmi.com/russia/en/default.asp |archive-date=18 July 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> company conducted the 11th survey of Runet audience Online Monitor. REGNUM newsline is read more by managers (28.3% of REGNUM audience comparing to 20.3% of Runet average).<ref>{{cite news|title=Аудитория ИА REGNUM: взрослые, образованные и обеспеченные - данные МАСМИ|url=https://regnum.ru/news/756390.html|language=ru|work=REGNUM News Agency|date=2006-12-18|access-date=2020-08-31}}</ref>
== Controversy == Estonia's Security Police (KaPo) in its 2005 yearbook laid a claim according to which REGNUM had been designed as a tool in Russia's state propaganda machine operating under direction of Modest Kolerov, at the time the head of an agency within President Vladimir Putin's administration. The claim stated that in essence, REGNUM is not a news outlet as it presents itself, but an umbrella for Russia's secret services operations in countries of the so-called "near abroad", which efforts are directed to promoting Russia's geopolitical agenda.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.kapo.ee/cms-data/_text/38/44/files/aastaraamat-2005-est.pdf|title=Kaitsepolitsei aastaraamat 2005|language=et|publisher=Estonian Internal Security Service|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807131335/http://www.kapo.ee/cms-data/_text/38/44/files/aastaraamat-2005-est.pdf|archive-date=2011-08-07|url-status=dead}}</ref>
As Russia's foreign policy tool REGNUM has been instrumental in encouraging opposition to energy independence plans in the Baltic states, contributing to the negative popular vote on the question of a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania.<ref>{{cite report|last=Satter |first=David |author-link=David Satter|date=2014-01-08|url=https://www.cima.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/CIMA-Russia%20report_David%20Satter.pdf|title=The Last Gasp of Empire: Russia's Attempts to Control the Media in the Former Soviet Republics|publisher=Center for International Media Assistance|access-date=2022-03-26}}</ref>
Since 2011, the agency has become unpopular in Turkmenistan. In a report circulated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Turkmen diplomats repeatedly expressed their dislike of the agency, claiming that it systematically disseminates inaccurate, biased information about their country.<ref>{{cite web|title=МИД Туркменистана распространил сообщение для средств массовой информации |url=http://turkmenistan.ru/ru/articles/37825.html|website=Turkmenistan.ru|date=2012-09-20|access-date=2020-08-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=МИД Туркменистана обвиняет агентство "Regnum" во лжи и провокациях |url=http://turkmenistan.ru/ru/articles/36061.html|website=Turkmenistan.ru|date=2011-06-06|access-date=2020-08-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://regnum.ru/news/russia/1573751.html|script-title=ru:МИД Туркмении ответил на публикацию ИА REGNUM|language=ru|trans-title=Turkmen MFA responded to the publication of REGNUM News Agency|work=REGNUM News Agency|date=2012-09-22|access-date=2020-08-31}}</ref>
In December 2016, three REGNUM journalists were arrested in Belarus, accused of "inciting enmity between the Belarusian and Russian peoples", extremism, negative assessments of the Belarusization policy pursued by Alexander Lukashenko's government. Citizens of Belarus Dmitry Alimkin, Yury Pavlovets and Sergey Shiptenko spent 14 months in pre-trial detention center No. 1. In February 2018, they were sentenced to five years in prison under Part 3 of Art. 130 of the Criminal Code of Belarus, "Extremism" with a three-year suspension of sentence and a ban on leaving Belarus.<ref>{{cite web|last=Tolkachyova|first=Yelena |date=2017-12-18|url=https://news.tut.by/economics/573419.html|script-title=ru:Суд над авторами "Регнума". Все трое вины не признали|language=ru|trans-title=Trial of "Regnum" authors. All the three did not plead guilty|website=Tut.By|access-date=2022-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815032856/https://news.tut.by/economics/573419.html|archive-date=2020-08-15|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Petrovskaya|first=Galina |date=2017-12-18|url=https://www.dw.com/ru/суд-над-авторами-regnum-в-беларуси-факты-без-политики/a-41842181|script-title=ru:Суд над авторами Regnum в Беларуси: факты без политики|language=ru|trans-title=Trial of Regnum authors in Belarus: facts without politics|work=Deutsche Welle|access-date=2022-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbc.ru/society/02/02/2018/5a744c4f9a7947e809acd480|script-title=ru:Белорусский суд вынес приговор авторам российского информагентства|language=ru|trans-title=Belarusian court sentences authors of Russian news agency|website=RBC|date=2018-02-02|access-date=2022-03-26}}</ref>
== Awards == In 2006, REGNUM was awarded the National Prize of Russia "Runet Prize".<ref>{{cite web|title=Премия Рунета вручена агентству Regnum |trans-title=The Runet Prize was awarded to the Regnum agency |url=https://lenta.ru/news/2006/11/29/runet/ |language=ru |website=Lenta.ru |date=2006-11-29 |access-date=2020-09-01}}</ref>
In 2008, REGNUM was awarded the "Media-Peacemaker-2008" of the Guild of Interethnic Journalism in the category "Internet".<ref>{{cite web|last=Smertin|first=Anton |date=2008-11-27 |title=Портал ЮГА.ру вошел в число победителей конкурса "СМИротворец-2008" |trans-title=The YUGA.ru portal was among the winners of the "SMIrotvorets-2008" contest |url=https://www.yuga.ru/news/140302/ |language=ru |website=Yuga.ru |access-date=2020-09-01}}</ref>
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== External links == {{Commons category}} * {{official website|http://www.regnum.ru/}} {{in lang|ru}}; [http://www.regnum.ru/english/ English] * [http://www.volgainform.ru/ REGNUM-VolgaInform] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208224904/http://www.volgainform.ru/ |date=8 February 2010 }} (Samara, Cheboksary) * [http://www.newspb.ru/ REGNUM-Baltica] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723162317/http://www.newspb.ru/ |date=23 July 2021 }} (Saint Petersburg) * [http://www.arnews.ru/ REGNUM-Arkhangelskiye Novosti] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227013454/http://www.arnews.ru/ |date=27 December 2009 }} (Arkhangelsk) * [http://www.murmannews.ru/ REGNUM-MurmanNews] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113051421/http://www.murmannews.ru/ |date=13 January 2010 }} (Murmansk) * [http://www.marinews.ru/ REGNUM-MariNews] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523095958/http://www.marinews.ru/ |date=23 May 2010 }} (Yoshkar-Ola) * [http://www.severinform.ru/ SeverInform] (Vologda) * [http://altai.regnum.ru REGNUM-Altai] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216014255/http://www.altai.regnum.ru/ |date=16 February 2007 }} (Barnaul) * [http://prim.regnum.ru REGNUM-Primorie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216192438/http://prim.regnum.ru/ |date=16 December 2009 }} (Vladivostok)
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