REGNUM News Agency

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REGNUM News Agency is a Russian federal online news service disseminating news from Russia and abroad from its own correspondents, affiliate agencies and partners. Today, REGNUM covers events in all regions of Russia, neighboring countries in Europe, Central Asia and Transcaucasus. REGNUM was founded on July 22, 2002 (REGNUM system of agencies started functioning on June 19, 1999).

REGNUM system includes REGNUM-VolgaInform (Samara-Cheboksary), REGNUM-Baltica (St. Petersburg), REGNUM-Arkhangelskiye Novosti (Arkhangelsk), regional projects like REGNUM-MurmanNews (Murmansk), REGNUM-MariNews (Yoshkar-Ola), SeverInform (Vologda), REGNUM-Altai (Barnaul). The system of REGNUM News Agency also includes regional bureaus in the Russian territory and abroad:

• St. Petersburg bureau (based in St. Petersburg);
• Central bureau (Moscow);
• Central Russian bureau (Voronezh);
• Northern bureau (Arkhangelsk);
• Verkhnevolzhsk bureau (Yaroslavl);
• Povolzhye bureau (Nizhniy Novgorod);
• Nizhnevolzhsk bureau (Volgograd);
• Caucasian bureau (Nalchik);
• Siberian and Far East bureau (Novosibirsk);
• Transcaucasian bureau (Yerevan);
• Ural bureau;
• South-Western bureau;
• Central Asian bureau;
• REGNUM-VolgaInform (Samara-Cheboksary);
• REGNUM-KNEWS (Krasnoyarsk);
• SeverInform (Vologda);
• REGNUM-Altai (Barnaul);
• REGNUM-Primorie (Vladivostok);
• English section

REGNUM News Agency has an extended correspondent network (about 400 correspondents) in Russia and neighboring countries.
According to TNS Gallup Media survey of Moscow audience of Russian online news services, managers and specialists prevail among REGNUM audience – 72% (Yandex. News – 63%, Newsru.com – 64%). In November-December 2006, MASMI-Russia Company conducted the 11th survey of Runet audience Online Monitor. REGNUM newsline is read more by managers (28.3% of REGNUM audience comparing to 20.3% of Runet average).
REGNUM press centers are located in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Pskov, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Kaluga, Yerevan (Armenia).
REGNUM has the mass media services registration certificate No. El 77-6430 of August 6, 2002. REGNUM is a registered trademark, certificate No. 262482. REGNUM web address is http://www.regnum.ru/ (in Russian) and http://www.regnum.ru/english/ (in English).