The last editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti was Svetlana Mironyuk, the first woman appointed to the role in the agency's history. Its clients include the presidential administration, Russian government, Federation Council, State Duma, leading ministries and government departments, administrations of Russian regions, representatives of Russian and foreign business communities, diplomatic missions, and public organizations. It had a correspondent network in the Russian Federation, CIS and over 40 non-CIS countries. The agency published news and analyses of social-political, economic, scientific and financial subjects on the Internet and via e-mail in the main European languages, as well as in Persian, Japanese and Arabic. Within Russia itself, however, Rossiya Segodnya continues to operate its Russian language news service under the name RIA Novosti with its ria.ru website. On 10 November 2014, Rossiya Segodnya launched the Sputnik multimedia platform as the international replacement of RIA Novosti and Voice of Russia. RIA Novosti was scheduled to be closed down in 2014 starting in March 2014, staff were informed that they had the option of transferring their contracts to Rossiya Segodnya or sign a redundancy contract. On 8 April 2014, RIA Novosti was registered as part of the new agency. On 9 December 2013 by a decree of Vladimir Putin it was liquidated and its assets and workforce were transferred to the newly created Rossiya Segodnya agency. RIA Novosti ( Russian: РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN ( РИАН) or RIA ( РИА), is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. Rossiya Segodnya (owned and operated by federal government, as unitary enterprise) Dmitry Kiselyov, Margarita Simonyan, Anna Gavrilova
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