Blitz, a newspaper publishing from Bangladesh with print and online edition for the last 21 years has entered into content sharing arrangement with Sputnik News, Sputnik International and radio stations of the Russian broadcast network.

As a news agency, Sputnik produces newswire services that work around the clock in English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Farsi. The agency covers global political and economic news targeting an international audience. The newswires produce 1,500 news items daily that are available to subscribers via the web terminal and mobile app.

Sputnik (Sputnʲɪk) – formerly Voice of Russia and RIA Novosti, naming derived from Russian ‘спутник’ satellite – is a Russian state-owned news agency and radio broadcast service. It was established by the Russian state-owned news agency – Rossiya Segodnya on November 10, 2014. With headquarters in Moscow, Sputnik maintains regional editorial offices in Washington DC, Cairo, Beijing, Paris, Berlin, New Delhi, Madrid, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro.

Sputnik focuses on global politics and economics and aims for an international audience.

About Sputnik

Sputnik is a modern news agency whose products include newsfeeds, websites, social networks, mobile apps, radio broadcasts and multimedia press centers.

Sputnik HQ is located in Moscow. Regional offices are located in key regions and countries around the world, including the United States (Washington, DC), China (Beijing), Egypt (Cairo).

Sputnik newswire services work around the clock in English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Farsi.

The agency covers global political and economic news targeting an international audience.

The Sputnik brand was launched on November 10, 2014, by the Russian media group Rossiya Segodnya. Today, the editorial staff of Sputnik works in more than 30 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Chinese, etc.

The total volume of Sputnik’s radio broadcasts on websites and FM and DAB/DAB+ frequencies adds up to over 800 hours daily.

Agency photographers work all over the world and have repeatedly received prestigious international awards in the field of photojournalism, such as the World Press Photo and Magnum Photography Awards. The agency has its own photo database, called Sputnik Mediabank, through which it sells photo and video materials, as well as infographics.

Sputnik International’s predecessors are the state-run news agency RIA Novosti and the Voice of Russia radio service, which were disbanded in 2013.

About Blitz

Blitz is an independent newspaper, established in 2003 for the purpose of presenting balanced coverage of events. Since inception, we have been vigorously confronting radical Islam, political Islam and militancy; denouncing antisemitism and Holocaust denial, and promoting interfaith harmony. It is an independent journal that has been publishing the truth under extreme adversities.

The editor of this newspaper, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is a multi-award-winning anti-radical Islam and anti-militancy journalist with international acclaim. He received the ‘Freedom to Write’ award in 2005 from PEN USA; the American Jewish Committee’s prestigious ‘Moral Courage Award’ in 2006; ‘Monaco Media Award’ in 2009′; ‘Key to Englewood’ (NJ) in 2009 etcetera. He has been nominated several times for the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize, a competition organized annually by the European Commission’s Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development; as well as Reason Foundation’s Bastiat Prize. Shoaib Choudhury is a research scholar and a prominent counterterrorism specialist in the region. Mr. Choudhury has served as the Chief Correspondent of the Russian Itar-TASS news agency in Bangladesh for many years.

It may be mentioned here that contents of Blitz are being instantly crawled by Google News, Yahoo News, Bing News, Baidu News, Opera News, MSN News, AOL News, News360, DuckDuckG0, World-News Network (WN), Yandex, and other major search engines while it is quoted by most of the front-ranking news outlets around the world. We also have syndication and content exchange agreements with over 750 newspapers and news agencies around the world.

Blitz has content-sharing arrangements with HTDS (Hindustan Times Digital Streaming) as well as CGTN, OZ Arab Media and many newspapers and news agencies throughout the world.