RIA Novosti
Its Russian name was Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Agency of International Information «RIA Novosti» (), "FGUP RAMI «RIA Novosti»" () for short. Its formal English name was Russian News &amp; Information Agency "RIA Novosti". Early in the 1990s it had the name state enterprise RIA «Novosti» (named after Soviet "Press Agency «Novosti»" and "Information Agency «Novosti»"). "RIA" means "Russian Information Agency" and "Novosti" means "News" in Russian. The common abbreviation in Russian is RIA.