Dragon Newspaper (龍報) is a Chinese-language newspaper serving the Chinese diaspora in Russia, headquartered in St. Petersburg and operated by a company rendered in Chinese as 聖彼得堡鳳凰傳媒公司, a name that cannot be independently confirmed in English. It registered with Russia’s publications ministry in February 2000, holding its launch ceremony in St. Petersburg on February 7 of that year, according to a 2012 profile from China Central Television. Its stated readership includes Chinese embassies, Chinese companies, and Chinese-run businesses in Russia. The same profile said the paper maintained “long-term, stable cooperative relationships” with China Central Television, China News Service, and the St. Petersburg Baltic Media Group (聖彼得堡波羅的海傳媒集團), a company then run by Oleg Rudnov, who was reported by Russian and international media to have been a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Baltic Media Group collapsed in 2015 following Rudnov’s death. Control passed to his son, Sergey Rudnov, later sanctioned by Canada, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and separately linked by Russian and international media to ownership of Komsomolskaya Pravda, one of Russia’s largest-circulation tabloid newspapers, through the company LDV Press. Dragon Newspaper’s own site says China News Service established a formal “strategic partnership” with Dragon Newspaper in 2012, backing expansion of its Chinese edition and launch of a Russian-language edition. That institutional tie appears to run deeper than a content partnership: Dragon Newspaper‘s website lists a Chinese government internet registration (ICP filing) naming Beijing Zhongxin Tangyin Technology Development Co., Ltd. (北京中新唐印科技發展有限公司) as registrant, a company that corporate registry records indicate is wholly owned by Beijing Zhongxin Tangfeng Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (北京中新唐風文化傳播有限公司), which is itself wholly owned by China News Service. The Tangfeng company operates as China News Service’s “Overseas Center” (海外中心), established in 1996 to supply full newspaper pages, rather than wire copy alone, to Chinese-language media abroad, according to a company recruitment listing. Separately, Dragon Newspaper‘s Android app is published under a Google Play developer account listing a chinanews.com.cn email address as its support contact, and the same account publishes apps for at least five other overseas Chinese-language outlets in Canada, Japan, and elsewhere, all sharing a “com.cns.” software package prefix. The paper is led by President Li Shuangjie (李雙傑), who in 2025 directed its coverage of Xi Jinping’s state visit to Russia and commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the “Great Patriotic War,” including interviews with war veterans, according to the overseas edition of the People’s Daily. The same profile said Li has overseen a 2023 series called Toward China’s Invitation (共赴中国之邀) on global development challenges and small-scale livelihood cooperation projects, and that she has organized Chinese-Russian painting exhibitions and youth friendship football matches, framing media as both a communication link and an avenue for cooperation between the two countries. Dragon Newspaper‘s site separately names a Russian-language chief editor whose name is rendered as “Leonid Georgievich Gulin” (列昂尼德·格奥尔基耶维奇·古林), a romanization unconfirmed elsewhere.