"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" was founded in 1990 by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR during the "glasnost" reforms in Soviet Union, shortly before the country dissolved in 1991. "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" became official government newspaper of the Russian Federation, replacing "Izvestia" and "Sovetskaya Rossiya" newspapers, which were both privatized after the Soviet Union's dissolution.