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The Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR established Rossiyskaya Gazeta in 1990. This newspaper emerged during the glasnost reforms that loosened state control over information.
Law N 5-FZ dated the 14th of June 1994 defined the paper's role clearly as the sole legal venue for publishing acts from the Federal Assembly. President Boris Yeltsin signed Decree No. 763 on the 23rd of May 1996 to reinforce this duty.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta remained under direct government ownership throughout the transition while competitors lost their state backing. It replaced those privatized papers as the primary source for official announcements.
European Union officials accused the newspaper of spreading propaganda in May 2024 and placed it on an official sanctions list that same month. Critics viewed this move as a response to the paper's role in disseminating state narratives.
An issue released on the 18th of September 2007 featured a sheet about the Polish film Katyń written by Alexander Sabov. Media outlets in Poland reacted with immediate fury over his words claiming evidence for Soviet responsibility was unreliable.