Argumenty i Fakty

"AiF" redirects here. For other uses, see AIF (disambiguation).

Russian: Аргументы и Факты

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Founder(s)	Russian: 3нание
Founded	1 January 1978 (1978-01-01)
Language	Russian
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Circulation	2,750,000 (February 2008)
Website	aif.ru

Argumenty i Fakty (Russian: Аргументы и факты, commonly abbreviated "АиФ" and translated as Arguments and Facts) is a weekly newspaper based in Moscow and a publishing house in Russia and worldwide. As of 2008, it was owned by Promsvyazbank and the newspaper is edited by Nikolay Zyatkov.

On 7 March 2014 it was bought by the Government of Moscow.

History and profile

It was founded in 1978 by the All Union organisation "Knowledge" («3нание») and was published throughout the whole Soviet Union. In 1980 AiF was transformed into a weekly but was available only by subscription. In late 1980s, it was one of the leading publications in the Glasnost period. AiF was listed in the Guinness Book of Records with the largest circulation of any weekly publication. In 1990 it had a print run of 33.5 million. With fall of the Soviet Union publication of it was discontinued in countries outside of the Russian Federation. As of 2008, the circulation was about 3 million copies, with about 8 million readers. More specifically its February 2008 circulation was 2,750,000.

External links

• (Russian) Official website
• About Argumenty I Fakty

• Alexei Bessudnov, "Media Map" (183–189), Index on Censorship, Volume 37, Number 1, 2008, p. 185.