LifeNews

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LifeNews
Life News logo.png
Launched 2 September 2013 (2013-09-02)
Owned by News Media Holding[1]
Picture format 16:9 SDTV, HDTV
Slogan First in breaking news
Country Russia
Language Russian
Headquarters Moscow, Russia
Website lifenews.ru
Lifenews.ru
Web address lifenews.ru
Type of site
 News
Available in Russian
Launched September 2009
Alexa rank
 59 (Russia 09/2014)
Increase 1143 (Global 09/2014)
Current status active
LifeNews newsdesk

LifeNews is a Russian news website and 24-hour television channel that is owned by the News Media holding company.[2] The TV channel was officially launched in September 2013. As of February 2014, it had a potential audience of 30 million subscribers.[3] The channel's editor-in-chief is Anatoly Suleymanov.[4]

LifeNews is owned by Ashot Gabrelyanov.

The Gabrelyanovs operate in different sectors of Russian life from showbusiness to the security services. According to an article in The Moscow Times an influence on their recent success has been loyalty to the Kremlin. "The father, Aram Gabrelyanov, refers to President Vladimir Putin as the "father of the nation". [-] One of Putin's oldest friends spent $80 million to become a key shareholder in the Gabrelyanovs' holding company, News Media, providing it with a flood of cash for investment.'[5][6]

In September 2014 Ukraine's National Council of Television banned 15 Kremlin-run channels, including Life News, for spreading war propaganda.[7]

In 2015 News Media cut around 15 to 17 percent of the employees of Lifenews.[8]

Criticism

LifeNews is notable for a servile attitude toward the Kremlin and a proximity to the Russian security services.[5][9]

While broadcasting events the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, LifeNews is credited in creating an internet meme the Yarosh's business card,[10][11][12] which was found at the place of one of the first war in Donbass clashes. Later it was revealed that Dmytro Yarosh was really involved in that clash as commander.[13]

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January 2015, it aired a piece from one of it its regular contributors and 'expert political analysts' that said the terrorist attack had been carried out by the US against France in order to further an anti-Russian agenda.[14]

According to the Security Service of Ukraine, it is a paramilitary organization.[15] Andrew Levus, SBU, called members of the LifeNews channel 'specific special operations combat units of information.' [16]

Awards

  • LifeNews television channel
    • 2013 Golden Ray (ru) (Russian national award among non-terrestrial thematic channels broadcast in Russia in Russian only by satellite, cable and Internet operators )— Television Channels: News and Political Journalism category[17]
    • 2014 Big Digit — Business and News Channel category[18]

References

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  7. ↑ uatoday, 20 September 2014
  8. ↑ bloombergview 23 January 2015 putins propaganda industry
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  10. ↑ Ukrainians turn Russian 'evidence' into meme. Al Jazeera. 21 April 2014
  11. ↑ Mystery gunfight in east Ukraine sparks blame, counter-blame. Reuters. 20 April 2014
  12. ↑ 'Yarosh's business card' sparks new Internet meme. Kyiv Post. 21 April 2014
  13. ↑ Визитка Яроша оказалась правдой
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  15. ↑ LifeNews are not journalists, but a specific militant formation, SBU. Ukraine 24. 5 July 2014
  16. ↑ LifeNews agents acknowledged that they are not really journalists, - SBU. Ukrayinska Pravda. 20 May 2014
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