The Kuranty (occasionally titled Vesti, Vedomosti, or Vestovye pisma) was the first Russian hand-written newspaper, published in the 17th century in Tsardom of Russia.

The Kuranty was established by a ukase of Emperor Michael of Russia was issued by the Posolsky Prikaz for selected government officials in order to inform them about foreign events.

As foreign newspapers were delivered to Moscow via Riga and Wilna, they were frequently outdated and contained stale news, which resulted in the Russian tsar sending letters and embassies to deceased foreign monarchs.

Peter the Great replaced the Kuranty with the first printed newspaper in Russian, the Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti.

Shamin, Stepan Mikhailovich Kuranty XVII stoletiia : evropeiskaia pressa v Rossii i vozniknovenie russkoi periodicheskoi pechati.