With its first international channel launched in 2005, RT is, today, a global TV news network providing breaking stories, current affairs coverage, commentary and documentaries in ten languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Serbian, Chinese, Hindi, Portuguese and Russian; it also includes sister multimedia news agency RUPTLY.
RT India began broadcasting from its studios in New Delhi, India, in December 2025. Russian President Vladimir Putin and RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan jointly launched the new English-language channel during the president’s state visit to the country.
In 2025, RT became available to 950 million TV viewers in more than 100 countries around the globe. RT projects received more than 40 billion views online, almost twice as many as the year before.
RT creates news with an edge for viewers who want to Question More. RT covers stories overlooked by the mainstream media, provides alternative perspectives on current affairs, and acquaints its global audience with a Russian viewpoint on international events.
”RT… has a bigger following in this country than this network [CNN] does”, former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said. “BBC is one of the largest providers of English-language news; only Chinese news outlets or Russia Today have a larger reach,” Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of the British magazine The Economist, noted.
Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa, renowned American journalist Rick Sanchez, Chair of the Indian Parliament’s External Affairs Committee Dr. Shashi Tharoor, and Kenya's eminent pan-Africanist and anti-colonialism activist professor P.L.O. Lumumba host shows on RT. Since 2025, RT’s project ‘Africa: Legacy of the Great Leaders’ has featured the descendants of legendary African leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Patrice Lumumba, and Gamal Abdel Nasser. Throughout the years, RT has worked with leading international media and public sphere personalities, including broadcasting legend Larry King, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, prolific Indian actor, best-selling author and motivational speaker Anupam Kher, Pulitzer-prize winning and Emmy-nominated journalist Chris Hedges, the “most dangerous financial expert” Max Keiser, former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, legendary football coach José Mourinho, a top American veteran journalist Ed Schultz, and French media icon Frédéric Taddeï, among others.
RT Arabic was launched in 2007. In terms of visits, RT Arabic news site surpasses the likes of CNN Arabic, BBC Arabic, Alhurra, DW Arabic, France24 Arabic and Euronews Arabic, among other channels.
Launched in 2009, RT en Español is now the most popular international news channel in Latin America, broadcasting on the open airwaves of ten Latin American countries: Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, Chile and Cuba.
In 2025, RT generated more than 3 billion views on Chinese social media platforms, with a total reach of 3.66 billion. RT operates a broad network of accounts across China’s leading platforms, including Weibo, Bilibili, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and WeChat. By audience engagement and growth dynamics on social networks, RT is the most successful foreign media outlet operating in China.
RT broadcasts in Africa in English, Arabic, and French. In December 2025 together with the African Union of Broadcasters and local foundations, RT launched The African Media Awards, the largest media event of the year for the continent, in the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. The awards ceremony, which brought together political luminaries, descendants of the continent's legendary leaders, and media executives, was broadcast by more than 40 television channels and reached an audience of over 400 million viewers.
Ruptly, established in 2013, is a global multimedia news agency that operates as part of the RT network. It provides up-to-date video news content, exclusive and viral footage, and live broadcasts covering social, political, scientific, cultural and sports events. Ruptly also serves as a key technical contractor for international coverage of the Russian leadership abroad. Ruptly publishes over a thousand news stories and delivers hundreds of live broadcasts every month. The agency works with more than 2,000 clients in over one hundred countries.
The International Documentary Film Festival “RT.Doc: Time of Our Heroes,” launched by RT in 2023, brings together filmmakers, war correspondents, artists and public figures to tell the stories of those who are part of Russia's Special Military Operation effort. Films from the festival program, which counts more than 200 works, have been screened in more than 30 countries including NATO member states. RT.Doc has organized over a hundred documentary screenings in more than 40 Italian cities. In Serbia, for two years in a row, the festival was co-hosted by the eminent Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica in his village.
RT established its educational program for aspiring journalists and bloggers – RT School – in Moscow in 2016. Launched in February 2024, RT Academy serves as the international educational arm of RT School, offering courses in foreign languages. Since its founding, over 5,000 individuals from more than 80 countries have been trained through RT School’s competitive programs.
RT is the only Russian TV channel to be an eleven-time Emmy finalist. The network has been nominated for International News & Current Affairs Emmy for its coverage of the humanitarian crisis in the Iraqi city of Mosul, Guantanamo Bay inmates’ hunger strike, the Occupy Wall Street protests and other stories. RT also has been shortlisted for News and Documentary Emmy Awards for its VR project ‘Lessons of Auschwitz’, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Soviet Army. RT America’s ‘Boom Bust’ financial show was a Daytime Emmy finalist for Outstanding Main Title and Graphic Design for a Live Action Program in 2020, while Pulitzer-prize laureate Chris Hedges, host of ‘On Contact with Chris Hedges,’ secured RT America its first Daytime Emmy nomination in 2017, as an Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host.
RT also holds dozens of medals from the New York Festivals for its documentary and news programming, and has been repeatedly recognized by numerous international awards competitions and media organizations, including the Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards, the Cannes Lions, the Webby Awards, the Lovies, the Shorty Awards, the Association for International Broadcasting, and the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, among many others.
***RT is an autonomous, non-profit organization that is publicly financed from the budget of the Russian Federation. For more information, contact: press@rttv.ru.