Type of site News site Commercial Yes | Alexa rank 1,329 (April 2014) | |
Website newsru.comnewsru.co.ilnewsru.ua | ||
NEWSru is a Russian online news sites. Originally it functioned as NTV's website under the address ntv.ru. The site remains part of Vladimir Gusinsky's media holding that includes a satellite TV broadcast company RTVi.
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Yelena Bereznitskaya-Bruni replaced the initial Editor in Chief Igor Barchugov in 2001. The network has a head office in Moscow, Russia and two foreign posts. The network set up editorial offices in Israel and Ukraine.
History
The change of ownership at NTV was followed by a redesign of the news site which remained with the former NTV owner Vladimir Gusinsky.
In April 2001 the TV channel became part of OAO Gazprom Media.
In October 2002 the news site moved to another domain name, NEWSru.com and the original domain ntv.ru has been transferred to the broadcasting company under the mutual arrangement.
Projects
Besides the basic site, the NEWSru service owns a number of special interest news sites.
Among defunct projects is 2004.newsru.com, devoted in due time to Russian presidential election, 2004.