''Buryad Unen'' (, , "The Buryat Truth") is the main newspaper in the

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, founded in December 1921 and named after the Russian ''

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'' newspaper. It was originally published in the top-down

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before switching to Latin script in 1931–1938 and eventually

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from 1939. It was founded as (Буряад-Монголиин үнэн, , ''Buryat-Mongol Truth'') in 1921 in Chita,

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, within

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. Now it published in

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, as Chita was carved out of the

. In 1958, Buryat-Mongol ASSR removed the "-Mongol" from its official name, and the name of this newspaper followed the change. In the 1970s, it was published six times a week, with a circulation of approximately 8500.

History of the newspaper

The paper was originally published in Chita. In 1923, the publication of the paper moved to Ulan-Ude. It was printed in the vertical Mongolian script, which, due to its universality, leveled the dialect differences of the Buryats and allowed carriers of different dialects to freely understand each other, which made it impossible to oppose Buryat dialects to each other.Short history of newspaper (in Russian language)
/ref> From 1931 to 1938, the newspaper Buryad-Mongolian Unen was printed in

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. For the first time, the Latin alphabet clearly showed the Buryat dialectal differences, but the Buryat language, written in Latin, still continued to maintain its Mongolian basis of the language: vocabulary, grammatical rules, style, etc. In 1939, Buriiad-Mongol Unen began to be printed in

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. The basis of the new

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took the spoken form in which the newspaper was printed in the subsequent period. In 1958, the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR was renamed the

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, in connection with which the newspaper Buryad-Mongoloy Unen was renamed Buryad Unen. Starting in 2013, the company began uploading various news segments to its

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channel. In 2015, the newspaper's parent company, the Buryat Ynen Information Agency, registered the company with the

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References

Newspapers published in the Soviet Union Ulan-Ude Buryat-language newspapers {{Russia-newspaper-stub