What does Izvestia mean in English?
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What does Izvestia mean in English?
Izvestia (Russian: Известия, IPA: [ɪzˈvʲesʲtʲɪjə], “The News”) is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. The word izvestiya in Russian means “bring news” or “tidings”, “herald” (an official messenger bringing news), derived from the verb izveshchat (“to inform”, “to notify”).
What does Tass mean in Russian?
Information Telegraph Agency of
ITAR-TASS, abbreviation ofInformatsionnye Telegrafnoye Agentstvto Rossii–Telegrafnoe Agentstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza, (Russian: “Information Telegraph Agency of Russia–Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union”), Russian news agency formed in 1992 after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
What does KGB mean pronunciation?
Komitét Gosudárstvennoj Bezopásnosti
Etymology. From Russian КГБ (KGB), through phonetic spelling of Komitét Gosudárstvennoj Bezopásnosti and acronymization.
What is the Russian CIA?
Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Minister responsible | Vladimir Putin, President of Russia |
| Agency executive | Sergey Naryshkin, Director |
| Child agency | Institute of Intelligence Information |
| Website | svr.gov.ru |
What is the English of TAS?
noun. heap [noun] a large amount or a large number, in a pile. a heap of sand/apples. pile [noun] a (large) number of things lying on top of each other in a tidy or untidy heap; a (large) quantity of something lying in a heap.
What does Pravda mean in Russian?
Pravda in Russian means truth. In Russian alphabet it’s written пра́вда. Pravda was the name of the official Soviet newspaper. In 1996, a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Pravda became the newspaper of the modern Russian Communist party. Е́сли что́-то повторено́ ты́сячи раз, э́то не зна́чит, что э́то пра́вда.
What happened to Pravda newspaper?
Some of Pravda’s journalists established their own English language online newspaper known as Pravda Online. Pravda is witnessing hard times and the number of its staff members and print run has been significantly reduced. During the Soviet era it was a daily newspaper but today it publishes three times a week.
What does Pravda and Izvestia mean?
Soviet period. As the names of the main Communist newspaper and the main Soviet newspaper, Pravda and Izvestia, meant “the truth” and “the news” respectively, a popular saying was “there’s no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia”.
What cities in the Soviet Union were named after Pravda?
A number of places and things in the Soviet Union were named after Pravda. Among them was the city of Pravdinsk in Gorky Oblast (the home of a paper mill producing much newsprint for Pravda and other national newspapers), and a number of streets and collective farms .