Private company
Zen News
Logo: VK, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
Russian online news aggregator
Zen Novosti; formerly Yandex.News) is a Russian news aggregator. It was developed by Yandex in 2000 and acquired by VK in 2022. Zen.News aggregates articles submitted by publishers via RSS 2.0 and ranks them according to various parameters.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
Jun 21, 2000Founded1
- Websitenews.yandex.ru
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Dzen News (tr. Zen Novosti; formerly Yandex.News) is a Russian news aggregator. It was developed by Yandex in 2000 and acquired by VK in 2022.2
Subsidiaries and ownership
Owners
- VK since Aug 2022
Former owners and parents
- Yandex until Aug 2022
From Wikidata.1
Controversies and legal
Controversies
In 2014, a report stated that the government of Moscow manipulated Zen.News (Yandex.News) search results by running a network of local online newspapers that provided positive coverage of city events. In many contexts, such as the Russo-Georgian War, anti-Putin protests in Russia, and the Russo-Ukrainian War, search results and stories were apparently manipulated, though the service denied such accusations.
In 2022, Meduza reported that stories were censored as a part of a secret agreement with the government of Russia.
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the service allegedly aided state propaganda by suppressing all independent coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Such practices led to sanctions against the service and key executives.
From Wikipedia’s article on Dzen News, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
Timeline
Links
- Websitenews.yandex.ru1
- X (Twitter)x.com/yandexnews1
- WikipediaDzen News
- WikidataQ4537987
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataZen News on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaZen News on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsZen News logo by VK, Public domain
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