Argumenty i fakty

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Argumenty i Fakty (Russian: "Аргументы и факты", commonly abbreviated "АиФ" - English: Arguments and Facts) is a weekly newspaper based in Moscow and a publishing house in Russia and worldwide. As of 2008, it is owned by Promsvyazbank and the newspaper is edited by Nikolay Zyatkov.[1]

According to its own claim,[2] it used to have the largest circulation in the world. In 1990 it had a print run of 33.5 million and was entered in Guinness World Records. Its current circulation (as of 2008) is about 3 million copies, with about 7 million readers.[1]

It was founded in 1978 by the Russian organisation "Knowledge" («3нание») to provide propagandists with statistical and other hard-to-find information. In 1980 AiF was transformed into a weekly but was not in wide circulation. It was available only by subscription to a closed circle of political 'spinners'. After 1985, it was one of the leading publications in the Glasnost campaign.

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  1. ^ a b Alexei Bessudnov, "Media Map" (183–189), Index on Censorship, Volume 37, Number 1, 2008, p. 185.
  2. ^ (Russian) Издания «АиФ» (Izdaniya 'AiF', "Editions of 'AiF'"), version of 6 February 2006, originally on official site, archived on the Internet Archive.

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