What are you talking about? Pravda.ru is the same old Pravda its always been?
The newspaper Pravda and the website Pravda.ru are not related, other than the fact they're both Russian and called Pravda.
The newspaper Pravda has had a long, strange career as a Communist house organ (if you'll excuse the expression). The website is not affiliated with it (though some of the contributors to the site used to work for the paper).
The Internet periodical PRAVDA On-line was registered by the RF Ministry for Press, Television, and Media November 3, 1999. The registration number is üÌ 77-2037. PRAVDA On-line has been published since January 27, 1999, in close cooperation with the publishers of PPAVDA.Ru.
PRAVDA On-line was founded by a group of contributors to Pravda, standing up for the independence of the oldest Russian newspaper from the Greek partners of the former editor-in-chief, Gennady Seleznev.
In 1994, most of Pravda's journalists left the newspaper, which was then controlled by Greek swindlers, and began to contest in court their right to publish the newspaper. In 1997, in all instances, the courts confirmed the rights of the Pravda journalists, who united in close cooperation with the newspaper Pravda's editorial staff to publish Pravda. The newspaper has been enjoying its independent status for over a year.
In 1998, after the leaders of the RF Communist Party put pressure on the judicial authorities and the public prosecutor, the rights to the newspaper were assigned to the Communist Party. Therefore, only one Pravda newspaper, the version that belongs to the Communist Party, is currently being published in Russia, although the rights and the trademark were assigned to another organization located in the USA. The original of the certificate assigned by the press ministry, which was granted in 1991, is being kept in Greece. Pravda contributors had to turn to the virtual world, and the first version of the Russian Internet daily PRAVDA On-line began to be produced in 1999. In spite of the fact that the journalists of both versions keep in touch with each other, they have different conceptions regarding the coverage of the life of our country and abroad. As opposed to the newspaper Pravda, which analyses events from the point of view of the party's interests, PRAVDA On-line bases itself on a pro-Russian approach to forming the newspaper's policy.
Their insistence on Pravda's independence from the Communist Party is especially amusing. The original Pravda was put out by Trotsky, then taken over by the Bolshevics after the revolution and was a Soviet propaganda vehicle for ever and ever. If my memory doesn't fail me.