Vesti (Israeli newspaper)

Vesty
TypeDaily newspaper
Formatcompact[1]
Owner(s)Yedioth Ahronoth Group
Founded1992
Political alignmentRight-wing
LanguageRussian
HeadquartersTel Aviv, Israel
CountryIsrael
WebsiteVesti

Vesty (Russian: Вести, "News") was an Israeli Russian-language daily newspaper. Based in Tel Aviv, the paper was Israel's most widely read Russian-language paper and the last remaining daily paper in Russian.[1][2] The paper was started in 1992 by Yedioth Ahronoth Group, which remains its owner.[1][3][4] It was very widely read in the 1990s. However, its sales had slumped, and in 2017 it was turned into a weekly newspaper, with a Russian-language website built, based on Ynet. In December 2018, the newspaper went out of print. The paper was edited by the refusenik Eduard Kuznetsov from 1992 to 1999.

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  2. ^ Shvidler, Eli (2008-08-12). "Russian-language media in Israel lean toward Georgia". Haaretz. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
  3. ^ Gilboa, Eytan (September 2008). "The Evolution of Israeli Media". Middle East Review of International Affairs. 12 (3). Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
  4. ^ Arian, Alan; Michael Shamir, eds. (1999). The elections in Israel, 1996. SUNY Series in Israeli Studies. SUNY Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0791442371.