Outlet profile

President of Russia

Russian state — official Kremlin communications

Owned byOwned by the President of the Russian Federation; operated by the Presidential Press Service under the Presidential Administration of Russia

FundingFunded entirely by the Russian federal state budget through the Presidential Administration, which received approximately 30.9 billion rubles (~$324 million) in 2025; no advertising or subscription revenue

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Background

Kremlin.ru launched in January 2000, shortly after Vladimir Putin became acting president, and an English-language version followed in 2003. The site has gone through five major redesigns, with the current version released in April 2015. It is operated by the Presidential Press Service and publishes all official output — speeches, transcripts, executive orders, and statements — in Russian and English under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. The site functions as the authoritative primary source for Kremlin statements worldwide, and Western governments and journalists treat its transcripts as the official Russian record. Because it is an arm of the executive office rather than a journalistic outlet, it carries no bylined reporting, no independent fact-checking, and no editorial voice separate from the Putin administration's own. The Presidential Administration's broader propaganda apparatus — overseen by deputies Sergei Kiriyenko and Alexei Gromov — coordinates messaging across state media, and kremlin.ru serves as the top-of-hierarchy anchor for that system. Russia's 2026 federal budget allocates a record 146.3 billion rubles for state media and propaganda, reflecting the administration's continued investment in official communications. The site is blocked or restricted in some countries that have sanctioned Russian state media, though it remains freely accessible in most of the world.

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Profile compiled 2026-09-06; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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