Nastoyashchee Vremya (Current Time)

Nastoyashchee Vremya — Current Time — is a Russian-language international news service run by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in cooperation with Voice of America and funded by the United States.

It addresses not only Russia but the whole region where Russian is widely spoken: Russian-speaking audiences in Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltic states and Ukraine are part of its remit. That gives its agenda a shape distinctly different from Moscow-centred channels.

Readers are best placed watching with the public funding in mind; the organisation's editorial independence is protected in statute, but the source of funding is relevant information in weighing its output.