Kommersant

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Kommersant
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description national daily newspaper
publishing company SAO "Kommersant. Isdatelsky Cathedral "
First edition December 1989
Frequency of publication Every day
Sold edition 115,000 copies
( kommersant.ru )
Editor-in-chief Andrei Wassiljew
Web link www.kommersant.ru

Kommersant ( Russian Коммерса́нтъ ; literally " businessman ") is a Russian daily newspaper . In 2007, their circulation was given as about 115,000 copies.

history

The newspaper was first founded in 1909, but closed when the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917.

In December 1989 it was revived in Moscow under the direction of the businessman and publicist Vladimir Yakovlev , son of the renowned journalist Yegor Yakovlev . Initially the newspaper appeared weekly and from 1992 daily. In post-Soviet Russia it rose to become one of the most important daily newspapers and gained a reputation as a serious and critical source of information.

The newspaper is published by the Kommersant publishing house, which also publishes the weekly magazines Kommersant-Wlast (Kommersant-Macht) with a focus on politics and Kommersant-Dengi (Kommersant money) with a focus on finance. In 1999 the publishing house was bought by the “ oligarch ” Boris Berezovsky , who lived in Great Britain after his falling out with President Putin .

On January 31, 2005, the edition of the newspaper appeared with only four pages and numerous blank spaces. It only contained a revocation as well as the text of a judgment with which she had been sentenced to pay damages equivalent to around 8.5 million euros to Alfa Bank. The editors stated in a corner of the newspaper that the issue was exclusively dedicated to Alfa Bank and its boss Michail Fridman , "so that he may like it".

At the beginning of 2006, Berezovsky sold 50% of his shares in the publishing house to his business partner Badri Patarkazishvili , who thus became a co-owner of the publishing house. Soon thereafter, however, rumors arose that Patarkatsishvili would not keep the publisher permanently, but would sell it on to structures close to the state. In September 2006 it finally became known that Alisher Usmanov had acquired Kommersant Verlag, an entrepreneur in the metal industry and manager of a subsidiary of the Gazprom group .

In 2015 Yakovlev emigrated to Israel.

The departure of editor-in-chief Yakovlev “for personal reasons” in 2018 was also equated with the disappearance of the last independence.

In May 2019, two prominent journalists Maksim Ivanov and Ivan Safronov were sacked after writing an article about the possible replacement of Federation Council chairwoman Valentin Matviyenko . Thereupon eleven journalists resigned in protest, including the deputy editor-in-chief Gleb Cherkassov and the head of the interior department Alla Barachowa. One hundred employees of the publishing house signed a notice that political reporting was no longer possible for an indefinite period of time. With regard to freedom of speech, you wrote: "We are sure that our country deserves a better future".

Kommersant journalist as a victim of violence

The well-known Kommersant journalist Oleg Kashin was beaten up and seriously injured by strangers in front of his apartment in Moscow on November 6, 2010. Kashin had repeatedly dealt critically with democratic deficiencies in Russia. Civil rights activists and the journalists' association as well as the human rights organization Amnesty International were appalled and called for a quick clarification.

Trivia

The newspaper uses a stylized cursive in its logo, alluding to the old Russian spelling, and uses a single uppercase Ъ as an abbreviation for its own newspaper, for example in interviews in which the questions are only introduced with "Ъ:", or in Ъ-Деньги as the short form for the financial magazine Коммерсантъ-Деньги, Kommersant-Geld.

literature

Web links

Commons : Kommersant  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information ( memento of May 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the Kommersant's website (Russian).
  2. ↑ Blank pages in response to a judgment on damages . In: The world ; accessed on October 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ Elene Perotti: Russia: Kremlin creeps closer to media domination? The Editors Weblog , September 1, 2006.
  4. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/journalismus-in-russland-so-luegen-sie-mit-dem-groessten-erffekt-14899422.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_0
  5. ↑ Who caresses the Kremlin? , Novaya Gazeta, July 25, 2018.
  6. ^ Influential Russian Newspaper Editor at Kommersant Resigns , Moscow Times, July 13, 2018.
  7. ^ Resignations and protests at the Russian quality newspaper "Kommersant". In: derstandard.at . May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019.
  8. ↑ Kommersant journalists say they will not be able to tell readers anything about Russian politics for an indefinite period of time , Novaya Gazeta, May 20, 2019