Argumenty i Fakty (Russian: Аргументы и факты, commonly abbreviated "АиФ" and translated as Arguments and Facts)[1] is a weekly newspaper based in Moscow and a publishing house in Russia and worldwide.
[3][4] It was founded in 1978 by the All-Union Organisation "Znanie" (Knowledge) and was published throughout the whole Soviet Union for lecturers, propagandists, political agitators.
AiF was listed in the Guinness Book of Records with the largest circulation of any weekly publication.
[6] With the fall of the Soviet Union, publication of it was discontinued in countries outside the Russian Federation.
[8] During this time, it was owned by Promsvyazbank and the newspaper was edited by Nikolay Zyatkov.