that the material about radio and internet broadcasts be split out into another article titled sputnik radio network . discuss august 2016 radio sputnik redirects here . for other uses see radio sputnik disambiguation . not to be confused with sputnik search engine . sputnik predecessors ria novosti voice of russia headquarters moscow russian federation area served worldwide parent rossiya segodnya website sputniknews.com sputnik pronounced sp tn k is an online news and radio broadcast service established by the russian government controlled news agency rossiya segodnya . 2 headquartered in moscow sputnik has regional editorial offices in washington cairo beijing and london . it focuses on global politics and economics and is geared entirely towards a non russian audience . 3 sputnik has been subject to accusations of bias disinformation 4 and being a russian propaganda outlet . 5 6 sputnik news is a successor to russian state owned ria novosti s international branch which became defunct in 2013 . 7 whereas ria novosti s output tended to emanate from a more concentrated base in moscow sputnik s content is drawn from a number of international bureaux . in 2015 sputnik announced its intention to broadcast in 30 languages with over 800 hours of radio programming a day covering over 130 cities and 34 countries . 8 contents 1 history 2 operations 2.1 wire services 2.2 online news 2.3 radio 3 criticism 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit ria novosti was russia s international news agency until 2013 and it continues to be the name of a state operated domestic russian language news agency . 9 on 9 december 2013 ria novosti entered liquidation and a new russian international news agency rossiya segodnya 10 was created . dmitry kiselev an anchorman of the russia 1 channel was appointed to be the first president of the new agency . 11 sputnik was launched on 10 november 2014 by rossiya segodnya an agency wholly owned and operated by the russian government which was created by an executive order of the president of russia on december 9 2013 . 2 sputnik replaces the ria novosti news agency and voice of russia which was the russian government s international radio broadcasting service from 1993 until 9 november 2014 on an international stage which remains active in russia . 12 within russia itself however rossiya segodnya continues to operate its russian language news service under the name ria novosti . 13 according to its chief dmitry kiselyov sputnik was intended to counter the aggressive propaganda that is now being fed to the world . 14 in 2015 sputnik announced their intention to locate the agency s new uk radio studio in scotland s capital edinburgh . 15 in march 2016 access to sputnik s online content was blocked by turkish authorities as well as denying the turkish bureau chief tural kerimov access to the country . the move is thought to have been in response to comments by the russian leadership that were critical of presidant recep tayyip erdo an regarding the turkish administration s record on human rights and freedom of speech . 16 17 in june 2016 sputnik plagiarized the french fake news website le gorafi in an imagined article about a 17 year old going into the lys e to catch a pok mon in pok mon go . 18 19 third party source needed operations edit wire services edit as a news agency sputnik maintains six news wires 20 sputnik news service in english covering international events sputnik news service russia in english sputnik news service russia ukraine & the baltics in english sputnik arabic news service sputnik n vosti in spanish sputnik chinese news service online news edit list indicator s ria ria novosti previously operated online editions in these languages . vor inherited from voice of russia s online news service . ru sputnik also operates russian language editions for areas served by these editions . apart from wire services sputnik also operates online news in following languages abkhazru arabicria vor armenianru azerbaijaniru belarusianru chineseria vor czechvor darivor englishria vor estonianru frenchria vor georgianru germanria vor italianvor japaneseria vor kazakhru korean for south koreavor kurdishvor kyrgyzru latvianru ossetianru pashtovor persianria vor polishvor portuguese for brazilvor romanian for moldovaru edition for romania hosted by the moldavian edition serbianvor spanishria vor tajikru turkishvor uzbekru vietnamesevor sputnik previously operated the following editions which were later shutdown danishvor english for indiavor finnishvor hindivor norwegianvor swedishvor urduvor radio edit radio sputnik is the audio element of the sputnik platform and aims to operate in 30 languages in 2015 for a total of over 800 hours a day covering over 130 cities and 34 countries on fm dab dab digital radio broadcasting hd radio as well as mobile phones and the internet . 21 it is also available on various satellite transponders including a 24 hour english service audible in north america via the galaxy 19 satellite . notable presenters on radio sputnik include max keiser and stacy herbert who present the weekly economics based talk show double down 22 and liberal talk radio host thom hartmann whose thom hartmann program is syndicated daily on sputnik . criticism edit see also rossiya segodnya controversy foreign policy magazine has described sputnik as a slick and internet savvy outlet of kremlin propaganda which remixes president vladimir putin s brand of revanchist nationalism for an international audience ... beating a predictable drum of anti western rhetoric . 5 such views were also voiced by the washington dc based think tank 23 center for european policy analysis cepa which argues that sputnik spreads biased information . for instance cepa argues that sputnik invites only a select group of commenting politicians especially those known for their pro russian views . 6 according to kevin rothrock russia editor for global voices sputnik acts as a spoiler to try and disrupt or blur information unfriendly to russia such as russian troops widely alleged involvement in the war in ukraine . 24 german journalist and author michael thumann has described sputnik as being part of what he calls russia s digital information war against the west . 25 alexander podrabinek a russian journalist who works for the radio france internationale 26 27 part of french government s france m dias monde and the radio free europe radio liberty 28 part of broadcasting board of governors an independent agency of the united states government has accused sputnik of disseminating russian state propaganda abroad . 14 in october 2016 sputnik falsified the contents of wikileaks e mails in a story that attacked hillary clinton ; sputnik later took down the article . 29 donald trump recited the false story at one of his rallies . 29 see also edit voice of russia radio moscow references edit sputniknews.com site overview . alexa internet . 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