Eastern Bloc mass media

Pravda (, 'Truth') is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million. The newspaper began publication on 5 May 1912 in the Russian Empire but was already extant abroad in January 1911. It emerged as the leading government newspaper of the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1912 and 1991.

Russian TV channel

state-operated domestic Russian-language news agency

Samizdat (, , ), also Samvydav () was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader. The practice of manual reproduction was widespread, because printed texts could be traced back to the source. This was a grassroots practice used to evade official Soviet censorship.

Polish public service broadcaster

Izvestia (, "The News") is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. Founded in February 1917, Izvestia, which covered foreign relations, was the organ of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, disseminating official state propaganda. It is now described as a "national newspaper" of Russia.

Latvian public television broadcaster

Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (; 'Albanian Radio and Television'; formerly TVSH , now mostly referred to as RTSH ) is the national public broadcasting company of Albania. Founded in 1938, it operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite. The international television service via satellite RTSH Sat (former TVSH Sat) was launched in 1993 and is aimed at Albanian-speaking communities in Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and northern Greece, plus the Albanian diaspora in the rest of Europe. RTSH is funded by a combination of commerc

Russian daily newspaper

Interfax () is a Russian news agency. The agency is owned by Interfax News Agency joint-stock company and is headquartered in Moscow.

Hungarian national public service television institution operating between 1957 and 2015

The National State TV and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus or simply Belteleradio, is a state-owned television and radio broadcasting service in Belarus.

public television broadcaster in Czechia

television station

The National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine JSC (, NTSU), also known as Suspilne (, , ) or previously UA:PBC, is the national public broadcaster of Ukraine. As such it was registered on 19 January 2017. In its revamped form the company provides content for its three television and radio channels.

Estonian national television channel

TVP1 (TVP Jeden, Telewizja Polska 1, Program Pierwszy Telewizji Polskiej, "Jedynka") is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national free-to-air television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one of the most popular today. TVP1 was launched 25 October 1952.

Soviet public TV broadcaster

Polish public broadcasting organization

public radio broadcaster in Latvia

Pershyi () is a Ukrainian public television channel, operated by Suspilne.

radio station

TVP2 (TVP Dwa, Telewizja Polska 2, Program Drugi Telewizji Polskiej, "Dwójka") is a Polish public mainstream TV channel operated by TVP. Launched in October 1970, its varied line-up contains a variety of programming (documentary, history, talk-shows, game-shows) although it focuses on entertainment: stand up comedy, comic shows, cabaret, and themed talk shows (for example on travel or foreign cultures).

East German radio and TV broadcaster

Hungarian public radio station

Scînteia (Romanian for "The Spark") was the name of two newspapers edited by Communist groups at different intervals in Romanian history. The title is a homage to the Russian language paper Iskra. It was known as Scânteia until the 1953 spelling reform, which replaced the letter  with the phonologically identical Î in all cases.

state-owned news agency of Belarus

Russian newspaper (est. 1921)

journal published in Warsaw in 1948–1990

Soviet news agency, operating from 1941 to 1961

Czech newspaper

Soviet international radio station

The Ostern ("Eastern"; ; or ) is a film genre created in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc as a variation of the Western films. The word Ostern is a portmanteau derived from the German word Ost, meaning "East", and the English word western. Two subgenres may be distinguished (although the terms may be used interchangeably):

radio broadcasting organization of the German Democratic Republic

Hungarian TV channel

public radio broadcaster in Romania

ČT2 (ČT Dva, Česká televise 2, "Dvojka") is the Czech public television channel, operated by Czech Television. ČT2 broadcasts documentaries nature-oriented shows, frequently showing foreign films in the original versions with Czech subtitles, including many English-language movies and features some of the important sports events (i.e. Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup or UEFA European Football Championship).

Hungarian TV channel

Romanian television channel

defunct Soviet magazine

Bulgarian television network

Serbian political magazine

radio station in Belgrade, Serbia

Russian magazine

Zvyazda (, , ) is a state-owned daily newspaper in Belarus.

Slovak newspaper

overview of television in the Soviet Union

former public broadcaster of Estonia (1926-2007)

Mladina (English: Youth) is a Slovenian weekly political and current affairs magazine. Since the 1920s, when it was first published, it has become a voice of protest against those in power. Today, Mladina's weekly issues are distributed throughout the country. Mladina is considered one of the most influential political magazines in Slovenia.

newspaper in Lithuanian language

defunct Bulgarian newspaper

Soviet and Russian newspaper for children

monthly literary magazine in Russia

Romanian public TV channel

ELTA is a Lithuanian news agency based in Vilnius, Lithuania. In a day, it receives about 5,000 news articles and produces about 300 articles in Lithuanian, with translations to English and Russian. ELTA cooperates with foreign news agencies such as Reuters, Associated Press, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Polish Press Agency and others.

Lithuanian Polish-language newspaper

radio station

Estonian newspaper

one of the regional branches of the TVP

Soviet television channel