Owner(s) Government of Moscow Language Russian | Founder(s) Russian: 3нание Headquarters Moscow, Russia | |
Founded 1 January 1978; 39 years ago (1978-01-01) Circulation 2,750,000 (February 2008) | ||
Argumenty i Fakty (Russian: Аргументы и факты, commonly abbreviated "АиФ" and translated as Arguments and Facts) is a weekly newspaper based in Moscow and a publishing house in Russia and worldwide. As of 2008, it was owned by Promsvyazbank and the newspaper is edited by Nikolay Zyatkov.
On 7 March 2014 it was bought by the Government of Moscow.
History and profile
It was founded in 1978 by the All Union organisation "Knowledge" («3нание») and was published throughout the whole Soviet Union. In 1980 AiF was transformed into a weekly but was available only by subscription. In late 1980s, it was one of the leading publications in the Glasnost period. AiF was listed in the Guinness Book of Records with the largest circulation of any weekly publication. In 1990 it had a print run of 33.5 million. With fall of the Soviet Union publication of it was discontinued in countries outside of the Russian Federation. As of 2008, the circulation was about 3 million copies, with about 8 million readers. More specifically its February 2008 circulation was 2,750,000.