Komsomolskaya Pravda

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Komsomolskaya Pravda
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description formerly a Soviet youth newspaper, today a tabloid from Moscow
First edition 1925
Frequency of publication Every day
Sold edition 830,000 copies
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Editor-in-chief Vladimir Sungorkin (2006)
editor Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House
Web link www.kp.ru

The Komsomolskaja Pravda ( Russian Комсомольская правда ) is a Russian newspaper whose headquarters are in Moscow , but which appears and is distributed throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

history

The "newspaper in a sweatshirt" was once a nickname for the Komsomol spokesman Komsomolskaya Pravda , a newspaper of the state youth organization of the USSR, which was founded in 1925. One of the chief editors of the newspaper belonged to Alexei Adschubei from 1957 to 1959. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, the tide changed into a modern tabloid not only for young readers. In the year of this upheaval, the newspaper had a circulation of 3 million copies, which fell due to increasing competition from regional newspapers and its new position as just one of many titles in the Russian newspaper landscape in the course of the 1990s and even after the millennium.

today

Today's Komsomolskaya Pravda appears in several regional editions. The Moscow edition has a circulation of over 160,000 copies, while the regional editions reach just under 650,000 copies. This makes Komsomolskaja Pravda the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in the Russian Federation, ahead of the Moskovsky Komsomolets . It is a successful and popular newspaper and is printed in 62 regions of Russia. It also appears in Belarus , Kazakhstan , Moldova and the Ukraine and is also widespread in the rest of Eastern Europe and other CIS countries among the Russian-speaking minorities. 200 journalists are employed at the headquarters in Moscow. Like most other national newspapers, it has lost market share to regional and local newspapers in recent years.

The weekly Komsomolskaya Prawda Tolstuschka ( thick Komsomolskaya Prawda) (3.1 million) has a much higher circulation than the daily newspaper itself . In terms of circulation, this is number two among the Russian weekly newspapers. There is also a second branch, a weekly newspaper for the Moscow region, Komsomolskaja Pravda w Moskwe (circulation approx. 140,000).

Ownership structure

Komsomolskaya Pravda is published by the Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house , which also includes the magazines Sowetski Sport and Express-Gazeta .

According to the Kommersant newspaper , the Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house has been majority owned by Media Partner since January 2007 . Media Partner is part of the ESN group of companies owned by businessman Grigori Berjoskin . Other shares belong to individual employees of Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Before Media Partner joined the company , the majority of the publishing house belonged to the media holding Prof-Media , which in turn is part of Vladimir Potanin's corporate empire . Until 2007, the Norwegian media group A-Pressen also had a blocking minority of 25.02 percent in the Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house . A-Presen sold its stake to the main owner ESN for an unknown amount.

Web links

Commons : Komsomolskaya Pravda  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • kp.ru (website for Russia)
  • kp.by (website for Belarus)
  • kp.ua (website for Ukraine)
  • kp.kz (website for Kazakhstan)
  • kp.md (website for Moldova)
  • kp.kg (website for Kyrgyzstan)

Individual evidence

  1. sueddeutsche.de , November 22, 2006
  2. Ajubej, Alexej . In: Munzinger, Internationales Biographisches Archiv 25/1993 from June 14, 1993 (st)
  3. KP media presentation, p. 2  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: dead link / advert.kp.ru  
  4. Article. In: Kommersant , January 22, 2007