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Sputnik India
Russian state media
Sputnik India is the South Asia edition of Sputnik, a global news network operated by Russia's state media holding company Rossiya Segodnya and funded through the Russian federal budget. Launched in late 2022, it targets Indian audiences with coverage framed around promoting Russia-India ties and challenging Western influence in the region. Its stance toward the Trump administration is mixed: it critically frames U.S. trade and tariff pressure on India while the parent Kremlin network has historically been less hostile to Trump than to Democratic administrations, given areas of perceived Russian strategic alignment.
Owned byRossiya Segodnya, a Russian state media conglomerate created by presidential decree of Vladimir Putin and owned by the Russian federal government
LeaningRussian state media
On the administrationmixed
6average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun