REGNUM News Agency

REGNUM News Agency is a Russian nationwide online news service disseminating news from Russia and abroad from its own correspondents, affiliate agencies and partners. REGNUM covers events in all regions of Russia as well as neighboring countries in Europe, Central Asia and the South Caucasus. REGNUM press centers are located in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Pskov, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Kaluga, Yerevan (Armenia). REGNUM is licensed under mass media service, registration certificate No. El 77-6430 issued on 6 August 2002. REGNUM is a registered trademark, certificate No. 262482. The REGNUM family of agencies started functioning on 19 June 1999. REGNUM was founded by Boris Sorkin and Modest Kolerov on 22 July 2002. Kolerov served as editor-in-chief until 2005 when he was replaced by Konstantin Kazenin. Modest Kolerov served again as editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2012. Vigen Hakobyan became editor-in-chief again in 2012. It is rumored that Regnum editorial office employees greet each other with a special greeting, "СФО", which in Russian means "Death to the Fascist Occupiers". In an interview by editor-in-chief of Regnum, Vigen Akopyan to the Russian portal Gorod.lv, the principal claimed "anti-fascist" position of the agency was explained as to oppose Russian investment in any country whose politics are hostile to Russia or which is promoting the rehabilitation of World War II–era Nazism and fascism. Although Akopyan did not say what country he had in mind, Russian journalists figured out it was Estonia. The system of REGNUM News Agency includes regional bureaus in the Russian territory and abroad: St. Petersburg bureau (based in Saint Petersburg) Central bureau (Moscow) Central Russian bureau (Voronezh) Northern bureau (Arkhangelsk) Upper Volga bureau (Yaroslavl) Povolzhye bureau (Nizhny Novgorod) Lower Volga 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 News Agency has an extended correspondent network (about 400 correspondents) in Russia and neighboring countries.