RBK (media company)
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | RU000A0JR6A6 |
| founding | 1993 |
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Moscow , Russia
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| Branch | Media and internet |
| Website | www.rbcinfosystems.com |
RBK ( RosBisnesKonsalting ; Russian РБК , РосБизнесКонсалтинг , English RBC Information Systems , RosBusinessConsulting ) is a Russian media company based in Moscow . The main owner was the billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov until May 2017 . It is one of Russia's leading media and internet companies and is listed on the Moscow Stock Exchange .
media
RBK operates the television news channel RBK with business news, which according to its own information is seen by around 27 million viewers every month at the beginning of 2018.
The daily trade newspaper »RBK« appears five times a week and 80,000 copies are sold. The news agency »RBK« and an internet platform are also maintained by the company.
In 2006, according to the company, it also acquired 60 percent of the company EDI S PRESS Holding , which publishes, among other things, the magazine Salon Interior and Idei Vashego Doma .
history
RBK was founded in 1993. It mainly reports on economic issues and (after the upheaval in the Russian media in 2013 ) had earned a reputation as one of the last independent media companies in Russia. The TV channel and newspaper reported several times on critical events in Russia, such as the mention of Russian politicians in the Panama Papers in April 2016.
In May 2016, the three editors-in-chief were fired, allegedly for economic reasons. Two editors and a dozen other employees followed the editors-in-chief voluntarily. The new editors-in-chief came from the TASS news agency and did not want to change the professionalism of the editorial team, but declared that they were self-censored: "Even those who drive over a double line lose their driver's license."
State-owned oil company Rosneft sued RBK for 4 billion rubles in damages at the end of 2016 over a newspaper article reporting the sale of shares in the group .
In May 2017, the anti-monopoly authorities approved the sale of Prokhorov's 65 percent stake to Grigory Bereskin, a Kremlin-friendly publisher of the free newspaper Metropol and the tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda . Political pressure was suspected behind the deal, valued at an estimated $ 50 million. Business media are also of interest to Bereskin because they generate high advertising revenues with their affluent premium target group.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The self-appointed guardian of Russia's Pandora's box , NZZ, January 8, 2018, page 19
- ↑ Too critical? Deutsche Welle, May 24, 2016
- ^ The case of RBK 2016
- ^ Editors-in-chief of Russian media group resign Die Zeit , May 13, 2016
- ↑ Rote Linien für Journalisten , NZZ, July 15, 2016; "The key to censorship is not clear, sharp delineation, but permanent uncertainty."
- ↑ Setschins Macht Deutschlandfunk , December 12, 2016
- ↑ NZZ, May 27, 2017, page 30
- ↑ Новый владелец РБК Березкин не собирается влиять на редакционную политику , Novaya Gazeta, June 19, 2017