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Pravda.ru

Russian pro-Kremlin (privately owned)

Owned byPrivately owned by Pravda.ru Holding, headed by Vadim Gorshenin. It is not the Communist Party's Pravda newspaper, and it is not formally state-owned.

FundingMainly advertising and site traffic. Ad-tracking reports (NewsGuard) have found programmatic ads on the site. I found no confirmed public details of direct state funding.

On the administrationmixed

Background

Pravda.ru was launched in 1999 by former editors and staff of the Soviet-era Communist Party newspaper Pravda, including Gorshenin, Viktor Afanasiev and Gennady Seleznev. The new site kept the Pravda name but was a separate commercial venture, and the original newspaper remained a different entity. It is owned by Pravda.ru Holding, led by Gorshenin, who has described himself as a Putin supporter. Over time the site has published Russian and English-language content with a nationalist, anti-Western, and often sensationalist tone. NewsGuard's rating notes repeated false pro-Russian claims, including about the invasion of Ukraine and denials of Russian government involvement in the 2018 Skripal poisoning. Media Bias/Fact Check and others describe it as Kremlin-aligned. Its Trump coverage is not uniform: for example, an October 2026 article headlined that Trump had turned the Oval Office into a 'family offshore' after a financial disclosure, while the outlet's wider line tends to welcome Russia-U.S. talks. Readers should treat claims on geopolitical topics with caution and check them against independent sources.

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Profile compiled 2026-10-21; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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