Izvestia

Izvestia -- the name in Russian means "news" -- functioned as a long-running high-circulation daily newspaper in the Soviet Union. While Pravda served as the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, Izvestia expressed the official views of the Soviet government as published by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

The newspaper began as the News of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers Deputies on 28 February (Old Style; 13 March, New Style) 1917 in Petrograd. In August 1917 it took the title News of the Central Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. By October 1917 it became News of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Working and Military Deputies".

Initially, the paper expressed Menshevik and