[2][3][4] It was the organ of the Kurdish section of the Communist Party of Armenia,[1] and was produced under the auspices of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia and the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR.

[4] Prior to the Kurdish linguist and author Cerdoyê Genco taking over as editor in 1934, the newspaper was run by three Armenians born in Western Armenia: Kevork Paris, Hrachya Kochar and Harutyun Mkrtchyan, who knew Kurdish.

[2] In 1955 publication of Ria Taza (in Cyrillic script) was resumed with Miroyi Asad as its editor.

[3] In the 1980s, Ria Taza had a weekly circulation of 4,000 and was read by Kurds across the Soviet Union;[2] a smaller number of readers existed among the Kurds in Europe, who sometimes adopted material from it in their own publications published in Germany and Sweden.

[2] Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union the newspaper faced financial difficulties as it no longer received state support.