The Prawda (Russian , German truth) is a Russian daily paper, which was controlled in the times of the cold war by the Soviet ruling powers. It was created by Ilj­tsch and should not be confounded therefore not with the newspaper of the same name created of Leo Trotzki 1908.

The Prawda became to 5. May 1912 (18. May 1912) for the first time in sank Petersburg von Lenin given change and served the Russian October Revolution quasi as backbone in the worker for workers wrote and calls for protest meetings were organized. It should the earlier Swesda, a weekly paper, replace, which had been published since 16 December 1910 (29 December 1910) legally in pc. Petersburg. At January 1911 it began to appear twice weekly, and at March three times weekly. The authorities forbade it repeated. From altogether 63 expenditures they seized 30 and occupied 8 with penalties. By organizing mass collections of donations of groups of workers, Swesda prepared the soil for Prawda, for their first expenditure on 22 April 1912 (3. May 1912) appeared.

Since 1917 the Prawda in Moscow appears as party organ, also Stalin was once editor-in-chief.

After the collapse 1991 the Prawda came to the USSR into large financial difficulties. 1996 were adjusted the original Prawda. Into the Fussstapfen of the original then different new "Prawdas" stepped, which exists until today. The largest newspaper of the USSR with once 14 million copies daily was splintered into two, later into three parts. When 1992 the financing was missing by the ZK of the CPSU, journalists decided for the form of a corporation. And a first partner appeared himself: The zypriotisch Greek publishing house of the Jannikos family took over parts of the share stick and received for it three of five seats in the board of directors of the again formed medium enterprise.

The daily paper "Prawda" and the weekly paper of "Russia Prawda" stand for the communist party RF to the side.

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• Newspaper Prawda
• Prawda portal (based of some journalists, who leave the newspaper)

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