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RT

Russian state-controlled international television network
Organization television_network Q22868
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Summary

RT is a television network[1]. RT ranks in the top 6% of television network entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,165 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: state media[3]
  • Country: Russia[4]
  • Instance of: television station[5], foreign agent[6], website[7]
  • Founder: RIA Novosti[8]
  • Owned by: Rossiya Segodnya[9], RIA Novosti[10]
  • Headquarters location: Moscow[11]
  • Chief executive officer: Alexey Nikolov[12]
  • Child organization or unit: Ruptly[13], RT America[14], RT DE[15], RT UK[16], RT International[17]
  • Commons category: Russia Today[18]
  • Language of work or name: English[19], Spanish[20], Arabic[21]
  • Distribution format: cable television[22], direct-broadcast satellite[23], IPTV[24]
  • Review score: 12.5\100[25]
  • Industry: journalism[26], news media[27]
  • Chairperson: Alexey Nikolov[28], Margarita Simonyan[29]
  • Website account on: Odysee[30]
  • Inception: September 15, 2005[31]
  • Parent organization or unit: ANO TV-Novosti[32]
  • Official website: https://www.rt.com[33]
  • Topic's main category: Category:RT (TV network)[34]
  • Streaming media URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvCSr7qzAAM[35], https://rumble.com/vwbbjn-putin-announces-special-operation-in-donbass-special-coverage.html[36]
  • Described at URL: https://ru.rationalwiki.org/wiki/RT[37], https://www.conspiracywatch.info/russia-today-la-chaine-conspirationniste-du-kremlin_a778.html[38], https://www.newsguardtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/RT-NewsGuard-Nutrition-Label-02202022.pdf[39], https://www.lyngsat.com/tvchannels/ru/RT-News.html[40]
  • Motto text: Question more[41]
  • Legal form: autonomous non-commercial organization[42]
  • Owner of: Ruptly[43]
  • Different from: Rossiya Segodnya[44], ReX[45], Russia Today Society[46]

Why It Matters

RT has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] RT is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

Related Entities

Daria Dugina direct-broadcast satellite Margarita Simonyan Odysee Russia website

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . state.gov. state.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . state.gov. state.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . bbc.com. bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . lenizdat.ru. lenizdat.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . spiegel.de. spiegel.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . bbc.com. bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . bbc.com. bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . bbc.com. bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . newsguardtech.com. newsguardtech.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . archives.cjr.org. archives.cjr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . spiegel.de. spiegel.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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