Sputnik news agency is launching a 24/7 Farsi-language newswire, with a multimedia press conference devoted to the event slated to take place on Thursday at the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency's media center in Moscow
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 07th February, 2019) Sputnik news agency is launching a 24/7 Farsi-language newswire, with a multimedia press conference devoted to the event slated to take place on Thursday at the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency's media center in Moscow.
"We are looking for opportunities to strengthen ties between Russia and Persian-speaking countries such as Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan and hope that Sputnik Farsi News Service will lay a solid foundation for this interaction in the international media space," Viktoria Polikarpova, the head of International News Desk at Rossiya Segodnya, said.
The press conference will begin at noon local time (09:00 GMT), bringing together Rossiya Segodnya Director General Dmitry Kiselev; Iranian Ambassador in Moscow Mehdi Sanaei; the deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Second Asia Department, Maxim Baranov; and the agency's deputy editor-in-chief, Dmitry Gornostaev.
"Journalists from all over the world writing in Farsi will for the first time get prompt access to news about Russia. In a matter of seconds, the world community will be able to obtain exclusive information, which previously had to be collected bit by bit from various other sources or long be awaited due to translation issues," Polikarpova added.
Sputnik Farsi News Service is a 24/7 newswire in Farsi for professional journalists, corporations and the diplomatic community, as well as those who want to keep abreast of latest world news. The newswire contains news articles, reports, analytical reviews, as well as interviews and exclusive comments of Russian and foreign officials and representatives of international organizations to Sputnik correspondents from around the world. Sputnik Farsi offers a wide range of news content about politics, economy, security and culture.
Sputnik is part of Rossiya Segodnya. The newswires in English, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Spanish provide it with a unique opportunity to reach audiences around the world.
Sputnik offers multimedia content in 30 languages to international audience in 130 cities and 34 countries. Twenty-two bureaus around the world, from Tokyo to Montevideo, employ more than 1,000 people from dozens of countries.
