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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | A3 |
| Owner | Media Partner |
| Publisher | Izdatelsky Dom Komsomolskaya Pravda |
| Editor | Vladimir Sungorkin |
| Founded | March 13, 1925 |
| Language | Russian |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky Proezd 1/23, Building 1 |
| ISSN | 0233-433X |
| Official website | http://www.kp.ru/ |
Komsomolskaya Pravda (Russian: Комсомо́льская пра́вда; lit. "Komsomol Truth") is a Russian tabloid[1] newspaper. It was the All-Union newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Komsomol between 1925 and 1991. It was established according to the decision of the 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (b) and the first issue was published on May 24, 1925.[2]
After the breakup of the USSR it turned a Russian nationwide daily tabloid newspaper and is currently owned by Media Partner. Media Partner is owned by ECN Group, an energy company led by Grigory Berezkin, who has close links to Gazprom. The newspaper reached its highest circulation in 1990, when it sold almost 22 million daily copies[3]. It is currently the top-selling newspaper in Russia, with daily circulation ranging from 700,000 to 3.1 million.[1]
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In addition to the Russian edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda, which divided into regional editions by cities, there are other editions of the newspaper in CIS countries such as Komsomolskaya Pravda v Ukraine (Ukraine), Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belorussii (Belarus), Komsomolskaya Pravda v Moldove (Moldova).
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