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1991 – Severo-Zapad, one of the USSR’s first private news agencies, is founded. It releases daily bilingual Russian and English news issues covering events from Northwest Russia, with its first clientele including diplomatic offices based in Leningrad (later St. Petersburg). Severo-Zapad becomes the USSR’s first ever information agency to distribute news via the Internet.

It holds first promotional campaigns in Russian newspapers.

1992 – Severo-Zapad releases the first English language issue of the EcoChronicle magazine. The agency is invited to cover the G7 Summit in Helsinki.

1993 – Severo-Zapad produces journalist materials for the foreign media including Helsingin Sanomat, YLE radio, BBC, Daily Telegraph, and others.

1994 – Severo-Zapad organizes the first meeting of Russian and Finnish journalists in Helsinki; co-founds the St. Petersburg Journalist League; creates training journalist courses in cooperation with FOJO (Sweden) with financial support from the Swedish International Development Agency; and releases the first Russian-language issue of EcoChronicle in partnership with the St. Petersburg municipal water utility Vodokanal.

1995 – Severo-Zapad begins to release daily business news issues in Finnish and Swedish, with subscribership including over 100 Scandinavian companies. The agency implements an information/promotional campaign to help Onninen, one of Scandinavia’s largest suppliers of construction materials, enter the Russian market.

1996 – At the national journalist contest, Ecology in Russia, EcoChronicle is awarded as The Best Environmental Magazine.

1997 – Severo-Zapad executes a contract to develop the concept and to begin the production of the Metro newspaper.

1998 – To implement its own publication projects, Severo-Zapad founds the information and advertising agency Severo-Zapad Media that publishes the newspaper Peterburzhets including the advertisers Privet Internet, Vyberi Zdorovie, and Stop-Signal.

1999 – Severo-Zapad begins to publish the information and advertising tourist paper Anons.

2000 – Severo-Zapad implements the project Cross-Border Cooperation in collaboration with FOJO (Sweden) and the Swedish International Development Agency. The agency releases a special EcoChronicle issue on international Baltic environmental cooperation.

Severo-Zapad becomes a cofounder of the national media association MediaUnion, other founders including ITAR-TASS, Interfax, the Ekspert magazine, the TV company Vid, and other Russian media leaders.

2001 – Severo-Zapad renders information service to the construction corporation Skanska. The agency organizes the national journalist forum Nashe Vremya (Our Times).
The information/advertising paper Anons is renamed into Infoskop registered as a trademark.

2002 – Severo-Zapad develops the brand for the national award Radiomania, and registers a patent to produce compact information sheets (similar to Z-Cards).

2003 – Severo-Zapad organizes the Peterburg: Vozrozhdenie Mechty award ceremony marking the city’s 300-year jubilee.
Severo-Zapad organizes a congress of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists.

2004 – Severo-Zapad develops the concept and begins to produce the newspaper Hermitage News and the quarterly Visitor publishing culture and museum news around town.

2005 – Severo-Zapad organizes the Days of St. Petersburg in Helsinki, and implements a project to render information services to the National Agricultural Census.

2006 – Severo-Zapad acts as an information sponsor in the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg.
Severo-Zapad begins to release the newspaper Prioritet-Zdorovie to cover the implementation of the National Health Project.

Severo-Zapad publishes the first issue of Vestnik Khristianskoy Nauki on commission from Christian Science Monitor.
c Северо-Запад Медиа, 2006