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After publication in this publication, state documents enter into force: federal constitutional laws , federal laws (including codes ), decrees of the President of Russia , decrees and orders of the Government of Russia , normative acts of ministries and departments ^[1] . Also published are news, reports and interviews of statesmen, comments on official documents. The status of an official publisher of documents is determined by the Law of the Russian Federation No. 5-FZ “On the Procedure for Publication and Entry into Force of Federal Constitutional Laws, Federal Laws, Acts of the Chambers of the Federal Assembly” and a number of other documents.

On the last page - jokes , scanword , sudoku , horoscope, quiz .

The circulation of the daily issue of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta is 185,445 copies (data for the second half of 2010). It is published in 44 cities of Russia, newspaper issues are accompanied by regional tabs and thematic applications. The newspaper publishes a series of books with government documents and commentaries on them.

The first printed organ of the Russian government appeared simultaneously with the Russian government itself in 1905 - it was the Rossiya newspaper, while the government passed the publication of the Government Gazette . In March 1917, the “Government Gazette” was renamed the “Bulletin of the Provisional Government”, in October 1917 the newspaper was called the “Newspaper of the Provisional Worker and Peasant Government”, and from January 1918 the newspaper “The Newspaper of the Worker and Peasant Government”.

In March 1917, the publication of the newspaper Izvestia of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies began ; from September 1, 1917, it became known as the "News of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies", from September 29, 1917 - "News of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies." In 1923, in connection with the unification of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Transcaucasia into the USSR, the Izvestia TsIK newspaper was transferred to the USSR CEC and became known as the Izvestia All-Russian Central Executive Committee, SRKKiKD and Central Election Commission of the USSR. In 1938, after the abolition of the Soviets of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies and their central bodies, the newspaper was transferred to the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and became known as the "News of the Soviets of Workers' Deputies", and since 1977 - the News of the Soviets of People's Deputies.

In 1956, the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya was founded, which became the printed organ of the government .

In 1990, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Rossiyskie Vesti newspapers were founded by the Supreme Council of Russia (the first issue was published on November 11, 1990). In 1993, after the October events, the powers of the founder were transferred to the Government of Russia .

In 2001, the newspaper (and another 12 publications) was exposed as the media , where they accept a monetary reward for publishing custom-made articles (that is, they practice the so-called “jeans”) ^{[2] [3]} .

In 2007, it was the leader in terms of the number of subscribers among newspapers ^[4] .

According to 2008 data, the publication received support from the state budget ^[5] , including for the publication of the weekly supplement “Rossiyskaya Gazeta - Nedelya”, which was received by subscription for World War II veterans and people with disabilities, “ Afghans ”, families of dead soldiers, and other socially unprotected groups of citizens ^[6] .

According to SPARK-Interfax, revenue in accordance with RAS is the publisher of the newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta Information and Publishing Concern (90% owned by the FGU "Rossiyskaya Gazeta Editorial") in 2007 amounted to 2.929 billion rubles, profit - 238 million rubles ^[5] .

In the second half of 2008, the staff of the publication and corset was significantly reduced, 32 regional bureaus were closed ^[5] .

In May 2009, TNS Media Intelligence (a leading company in the field of media monitoring) compiled a citation report for Russian publications on central television and radio. According to the study, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” along with “ Kommersant ” and “ Izvestia ” “are the key sources of business and political news in the Russian information space” ^[7] .

According to the results of the first half of 2010, Rossiyskaya Gazeta topped the rating of the most cited socio-political publications according to TNS Media Intelligence.

In 2011, the RG.RU portal was awarded the “ Runet Prize ” in the nomination “Culture and Mass Communications” for the operational acquaintance of the audience with legislative activity.

In January 2012, the daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta updated the layout design and began to print in color (only in print shops in Moscow and St. Petersburg). The layout of the newspaper was created by Anatoly Gusev Design Bureau. The main purpose of the update is to make the design of the publication more modern and rich. Changes affected the entire layout - from the logo to fonts. The newspaper’s font, specially designed by Tagir Safaev, a leading type designer, has several styles. This font typed the new newspaper logo, headlines and notes.

In November 2012, the first issue of the “Russian Newspaper in Ukraine” was published (a full-color publication printed in Russian in Donetsk ) ^[8] .

By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated December 9, 2013, the Federal State Budgetary Institution (FGBU) “Editorial Board of Rodina Magazine” was annexed to the FGBU “Edition of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta” ” ^[9] .

November 11, 2015, Vladimir Putin congratulated Rossiyskaya Gazeta on its 25th anniversary.

On December 3, 2016, the chief editor Mikhail Vizel and the editor Irina Zaitseva of the Year of Literature in Russia Internet portal (created by the editors of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta) ^[10] , as well as editor Igor Virabov, deputy editor of the culture department Anastasia Skorondaeva and a weekly correspondent Rossiyskaya Gazeta-Nedelya Dmitry Shevarov was awarded the 2016 Russian Government Prize in the field of mass media for the creation and highly professional support of this Internet portal ^[11] .

From 2001 to October 26, 2010, the general director of the publication was Alexander Gorbenko ^[12] , a graduate of the Sverdlovsk Higher Military-Political Tank Artillery School ^[13] . On October 26, 2010, after Gorbenko left for the Moscow Government , Pavel Afanasevich Negoitsa took the post of General Director of RG.

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper Vladislav Fronin has been in office since 2001. From 1996 to 2001, he was deputy chief editor. Since 1974 he worked in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda , which he headed from 1988 to 1995 ^[14] .

The editors-in-chief were:

• 1990 (October) - 1993 (September) - Logunov, Valentin Andreevich (born July 27, 1938)
• 1993 (October) - 1995 (July) - Polezhaeva, Natalya Ivanovna
• 1995 (July) - 2001 (April) - Yurkov, Anatoly Petrovich ^{[15] [16]}
• 2001 (April) - Fronin, Vladislav Alexandrovich ^[17]

Over the years, writers, politicians and journalists worked in the state newspaper, who later became heads of other media.

Among the newspaper’s employees are writers and publicists Valery Vyzhutovich , Vladimir Snegirev , Nikolai Dolgopolov .

From 2001 to 2010, the general director of RG was Alexander Gorbenko, who later became deputy mayor of Moscow ^[18] .

In the 1990s, the writers of Yuri Buida and Maxim Kalashnikov (Vladimir Kucherenko) worked as observers for RG. Later, poet Igor Tsarev , writer Irina Pulya (Irina Kraeva) worked as observers and editors in the “RG”, and currently (2018), the writers Pavel Basinsky and Lev Danilkin continue to work in the publication.

Alexander Kupriyanov in 1992 and 1993 was the first deputy editor-in-chief of “RG”, later - the editor-in-chief of “Express Newspaper” and “ Evening Moscow ” ^[19] .

The poet and publicist Edmund Iodkovsky was a columnist for "RG", later - the chief editor of "Literary News" ^[20] .

Writer and publicist Andrei Gusev worked as a special correspondent for RG in the early 90s, later as editor-in-chief of Novaya Meditsinskaya gazeta ( NMG ) ^[21] .

The journalist Irina Khanhasaeva was the deputy chief editor in the 90s; Screenwriter Elena Shaposhnikova worked as a special correspondent; the writer Elena Tokareva headed the department of economics, later - the chief editor of the newspaper “Stringer / Stringer” ^[22] .

"Russian newspaper. Week "(No. 281 (7744) for December 13-19, 2018) has a circulation of 130811 copies, in number 32 of the page. Russian Gayeta. Week" No. 115 (7873) for May 29 - June 4, 2019 has a circulation of 3144805 copies . and contains 40 stripes.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences , chairman of the Commission on the fight against pseudoscience of the Russian Academy of Sciences E. B. Alexandrov noted in an interview: “In the West, by the way, horoscopes are the lot of the yellow press . And we even have “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” - a government publication! - prints predictions to all Capricorn and Taurus. This is a shame ” ^[23] .

The President of the Interregional Society for Pharmacoeconomic Research, the Deputy Chairman of the Formulary Committee of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences , Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor P. A. Vorobyov criticized the publication in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta of the article “Switzerland Decree to Us?” ^[24] on homeopathy . Vorobyov points out that the article is not labeled as “on the basis of advertising”, but contains the name of the clinic and, in general, according to Vorobyov, is “clearly a custom-made article”. The article, Vorobyov notes, refers to the treatment of cancer patients in this clinic, but the clinic’s documents do not contain instructions for oncology treatment, which is not compatible with licensing requirements. Vorobyov asks Roszdravnadzor to verify this fact: “It is a crime to me to introduce a huge number of sick people into tumor therapy methods. And not abstract, but quite criminal. ” Speaking about the inefficiency of homeopathy, Vorobyov also characterizes Dr. Irina Kuzmin, who tells in the article about homeopathy, as a “dangerous quack”. In addition, Vorobyov draws attention to the fact that the indicated clinic was previously advertised in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta ^[25] .

Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor at the Higher School of Economics , President of the Society of Evidence-Based Medicine Specialists V.V. Vlasov describes the article “Switzerland a decree for us?” As follows: “We almost certainly deal with jeans, and the most cynical one addressed to people who are willing to pay a lot in the last hope. For what? ”, Also speaking about the inefficiency of homeopathy ^[26] .

The Troitsky Variant - Science newspaper also published an “Open letter from medical journalists to the editor-in-chief of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta V. A. Fronin in connection with the publication of the article“ Switzerland decree to us? ”, Which states that the article is incompatible with“ ethical and professional standards ”and it is proposed to remove the article from the site in order to“ reduce the unconditional harm ”from it ^[27] .

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