“Chitatel” a news reading service provided by The Russia Journal is rooted in the principles of free speech and equality of right of access to information available on public domain.

For nearly a decade, scores of search engines like Altavisa, Netscape, Google, Yahoo, A9, MSN and many others have provided links to relevant news and content available on the web.

This service is provided in line with the established web search and indexing practices of linking to news published by media, web publishers, corporations and bloggers without re-publishing or re-producing the content itself, in a non-profit and non-commercial service, Chitatel provides links to Russian news and commentary from nearly 2,000 sources.

Chitatel draws extensively from Google News, Yahoo News and feeds provided by hundreds of other web sites. Continuing additions will mean that the service will trawl over 5,000 web sites many times per day to bring the news in print, audio and video formats to readers.

The original news source is only a click away and naturally, like all other similar Internet web services, we take no responsibility for external content.

We do not profit from this service.

All content is handled by computers and software without human intervention. Some codes are written to hide content that conflicts with the formats of Chitatel. 

If any news site does not wish to provide links here to its information, we suggest that before they write to us, they should exclude their web site from bot engine searches to remove the content from public domain.

If that does not work, we are willing to attempt physical exclusion of web sites if a request is made though results cannot be guaranteed as long as the site is trawled by various Internet search engines, bots and news aggregators.

If you have any comments about this service or would like to contribute to its improvement, please write to webadmin_at_therussiajournal.com