| Russia-24 Россия-24 | |
| Picture Format: | 576i SDTV |
| Network: | VGTRK |
| Owner: | Russian government |
| Country: | Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
| Area: | Worldwide |
| Headquarters: | Moscow, Russia |
| Former Names: | Vesti (2006–2010) |
| Sister Channels: | Russia-1, Russia-2, Russia-K, Carousel, RTR-Planeta |
| Website: | http://vesti.ru/ |
| Terr Serv 1: | Digital terrestrial television |
| Terr Chan 1: | Channel 7 |
| Online Serv 1: | russia.tv |
| Online Chan 1: | Russia 24. Live |
Russia-24 (Russian: Россия-24|Rossiya-24) is a state-owned Russian-language news channel from Russia. It covers major national and international events as well as focuses on domestic issues. It is owned by VGTRK.[1] [2]
The broadcast began January 1, 2007 in Russia, February 7 on the West Coast of the United States, May 19, 2008 in Serbia, and October 9, 2008 in Kyrgyzstan. VGTRK Crimea started broadcasting on March 10, 2014.
The editor-in-chief of the channel is Evgeny Bekasov (since 2012).
The channel ostensibly aims to give a broad and impartial [2] outline of life in all of Russia’s regions from its European exclave of Kaliningrad to Vladivostok in the Far East. The channel was named Vesti until 1 January 2010, when the public-owned VGTRK rebranded its channels.
Russia-24 was banned in Ukraine, Moldova, the United Kingdom, and the European Union as a result of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3] The channel falsely claimed that the Bucha massacre was staged and suggested that footage of actors placing mannequins on a film set in St. Petersburg were Ukrainian soldiers using the mannequins to "pass it off as a corpse".[4]
The United Kingdom and Australia imposed sanctions upon Evgeniy Poddubny, one of the top war correspondents and propagandists of Russia-24.[5] [6]