2+ week, 5+ day ago (654+ words) MOSCOW, OCTOBER 17, 2025 " In October 2025, RT marked its 20th anniversary. The gala evening, held at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was attended by over a thousand friends and guests of the channel from all around the world. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised two decades of RT's work from the Bolshoi stage, to mark the occasion. The Russian leader noted that in 20 years RT has gone from an idea to a global brand renowned around the world." RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, in turn, shared her memories of how the channel was created." "I remember when you appointed me 20 years ago " it seemed to me the world had gone mad, and the main task was not to disgrace myself. It was impossible to imagine, firstly, that all this would be created, and secondly, that it would grow into such a colossal enterprise. It is…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (263+ words) MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 20, 2025 " RT India has unveiled a pan-India ad blitzacross out-of-home (OOH), digital and print platforms. The integrated campaign celebrates the strength and legacy of deep and historic ties between Russia and India." The campaign, titled "A new voice from an old friend, introduces the upcoming December launch of the RT India English-language news channel, created specifically for the Indian audience by RT, a Moscow-based global TV news network." The integrated rollout spans key business, cultural and diplomatic districts in cities, as well as major airports, featuring a mix of digital and print formats. It also leverages connected TV and the print and online editions of leading newspapers." The campaign is currently visible across Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai, taking over 65 prime locations and 190 digital screens and billboards nationwide." Reflecting on the enduring India'Russia partnership, the campaign highlights…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago (205+ words) [Preview] RT's Murad Gadziev has visited a location near the village of Novopavlovka in Ukraine's Dnepropetrovsk Region Read Full Article at RT.com Murad Gadziev has visited a crossing into Ukraine's Dnepropetrovsk Region that was secured by Russian forces in recent weeks RT correspondent Murad Gadziev has taken footage at a section of the Ukrainian border with Russia's Donetsk People's Republic where Kiev's troops had dug a large defensive trench " one that apparently failed to slow the latest Russian advances. The location lies near the village of Novopavlovka in Dnepropetrovsk Region. Gadziev became the first Russian journalist to report from the area during the ongoing conflict. The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly cited the settlement in recent briefings, noting that its forces have been consolidating gains in the area. There were no signs of Ukrainian activity along the trench line....

1+ week, 3+ day ago (257+ words) RT India has unveiled a countrywide advertising campaign across out-of-home (OOH), digital, and print platforms ahead of the December launch of its English news channel in the South Asian country. The campaign, celebrating the historic ties between Russia and India, is titled "A new voice from an old friend. The Moscow-based global TV news networks new channel is envisaged to cater specifically to the Indian audience. The rollout spans key business, cultural, and diplomatic areas in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Chennai, as well as major airports and the print and online editions of leading newspapers. The campaign across 65 prime locations and 190 digital screens and billboards reflects shared perspectives, milestones, and the long-standing spirit of friendship between the nations." A symbolic image showcasing the camaraderie between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is slated to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (411+ words) By Fyodor Lukyanov,the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club. Another G20 summit convenes this week in Johannesburg, but the mood surrounding it says more than the agenda ever will. The forum was born not out of ideology but necessity. Its creation at the turn of the century followed the Asian financial crisis of 199798, when it became obvious that the global economy was too interconnected for a Western-only club like the G7 to manage shocks on its own. But that world is gone. Trump has already promised to turn the 2026 meeting in Florida into a showpiece, and there is little doubt it will be exactly that: a spectacle designed on his terms. The leaders of the other two major powers China…...

15+ hour, 39+ min ago (355+ words) The'White House has introduced a new "media bias" tracker that publicly identifies news outlets it accuses of publishing false and misleading stories. The move comes amid US President Donald Trump's long-running confrontation with what he calls the "fake news media," a term he has used for years to describe coverage he considers inaccurate or hostile. Debuted on Friday, the tracker appears as a dedicated section on the White House website under the banner "Misleading. Biased. Exposed." The page features weekly examples of reporting the administration disputes, linking to the original stories and categorizing them as "Misrepresentation,Omission of context,Bias" or "Malpractice." The administration said in a statement that the site is intended to serve as a "record of the media's false and misleading stories flagged by the White House." CBS News, The Boston Globe and The Independent were the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago (321+ words) The BBC is prepared to issue a formal apology to US President Donald Trump to settle a billion-dollar lawsuit he filed earlier this week, according to several media reports. Trump is demanding the retraction of a documentary that contained a misleading edit of a speech he delivered prior to the 2021 Capitol Hill riot. During the event, a mob of Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C., in a bid to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The US president accused the broadcaster of "reckless disregard for the truth" after a leaked internal BBC dossier, published by The Telegraph last week, revealed that the documentary show Panorama edited his speech to suggest he had incited the riot. The accusations forced both the director general and head of news to resign. Pressure is mounting on the BBC as Trump's…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago (229+ words) The Russian embassy in the UK has accused British media of misrepresenting President Vladimir Putin's comments on the Ukraine conflict. The diplomats have pointed to coverage by certain outlets, including The Daily Telegraph, which it said allowed "serious distortions" of Putin's remarks during his recent visit to Kyrgyzstan. "His words were effectively doctored to align with the UK's official narrative," the statement on the embassy's official website said Thursday. "In particular, he was alleged to have said that it was Russia that intended to fight until the last Ukrainian dies." "The actual context is entirely different," the embassy continued, quoting Putin's remarks word for word: "Such distortions" only add fuel to the fire and play into the hands of those in the West who" wish to fight until the last Ukrainian," the diplomatic mission warned. Witkoff is expected in Moscow…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago (369+ words) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has hit out at the Western media over its "unprofessional and harmful" coverage of the Ukraine peace process. He singled out British newspaper the Financial Times for spreading "lies" on the postponed Putin-Trump meeting in Hungary. Plans for the meeting were announced in October. Days later, however following a phone call between Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, it was postponed, with Trump saying he did not feel it could end the Ukraine conflict. According to the FT, citing people familiar with the matter, the summit was scrapped after Moscow presented Washington with a list of "hardline demands" for resolving the conflict. The report also claimed that the Lavrov-Rubio call was "brief and terse," with Lavrov making "uncompromising" remarks that led Rubio to conclude that Moscow was unwilling to negotiate. "There are so…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago (97+ words) [Preview] Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare has reported issues which have caused outages across popular websites worldwide Read Full Article at RT.com Issues with infrastructure provider Cloudflare have caused outages across popular websites worldwide Major websites such as X and ChatGPT have stopped working due to an outage at Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare on Tuesday. A popular tool for checking whether a site is down, downdetector.com, has also been affected. In a message on its status page just before noon UTC, the company said that it "is experiencing an internal service degradation," and investigating the issue....