When was Rossiyskaya Gazeta founded?
Rossiyskaya Gazeta was founded in 1990 by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR during the glasnost reforms, shortly before the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
Questions about Rossiyskaya Gazeta
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What is Rossiyskaya Gazeta's official legal role?
Under Russian Law N 5-FZ dated the 14th of June 1994, federal laws, federal constitutional laws, and presidential decrees must be published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta before they can take legal effect.
What newspapers did Rossiyskaya Gazeta replace?
It replaced Izvestia and Sovetskaya Rossiya as the official government newspaper after those two papers were privatized following the Soviet Union's dissolution.
What controversy occurred in the September 2007 issue?
A comment by Alexander Sabov claimed that evidence for Soviet responsibility in the 1940 Katyn massacre was unreliable. This triggered a media frenzy in Poland, and Gazeta Wyborcza responded the next day by publishing documents signed by Lavrenty Beria authorizing the massacre.
Why did the EU sanction Rossiyskaya Gazeta?
In May 2024 the European Union accused the newspaper of spreading propaganda and placed it on its sanctions list.