Kommersant
Russian daily newspaper
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Alisher Usmanov |
Founded | 1989 ; 34 years ago ( 1989 ) |
Language | Russian |
Headquarters | Moscow |
Circulation | 120,000–130,000 (July 2013) |
ISSN |
1561-347X
(print)
1563-6380 (web) |
OCLC number | 244126120 |
Website |
www
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Kommersant ( Russian : Коммерсантъ , IPA: [kəmʲɪrˈsant] , The Businessman or Commerce Man, often shortened to Ъ ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business. The TNS Media and NRS Russia certified July 2013 circulation of the daily was 120,000–130,000. [1] It is owned by Alisher Usmanov . [2]
History
In 1989, with the onset of press freedom in Russia, Kommersant was founded under the ownership of businessman and publicist Vladimir Yakovlev . [3] [4] The first issue was released in January 1990. [5] It was modeled after Western business journalism . [4]
The newspaper's title is spelled in Russian with a terminal hard sign (ъ) – a letter that is silent at the end of a word in modern Russian, and was thus largely abolished by the post-revolution Russian spelling reform , in reference to a pre-Soviet newspaper of the same name active between 1909 and 1917. [5] This is played up in the Kommersant logo, which features a script hard sign at the end of somewhat more formal font. The newspaper also refers to itself or its redaction as "Ъ".
Founded as a weekly newspaper , it became popular among business and political elites. [5] It then became a daily newspaper in 1992. [5] [6] It was owned by the businessman Boris Berezovsky from 1999 until 2006, when he sold it to Badri Patarkatsishvili . [4] [6] In September 2006, it was sold to Alisher Usmanov. [6]
In January 2005, Kommersant published a protest at a court ruling ordering it to publish a denial of a story about a crisis at Alfa-Bank . [7]
In 2008, BBC News named Kommersant one of Russia's leading liberal business broadsheets. [8]
See also
- Kommersant FM [ ru ] a Russian news-radio station
References
- ↑ "Kommersant Website; (Russian)" . 2013 . Retrieved 1 September 2015 .
- ↑ Poberezhskaya, Marianna (1 January 2015). "Media coverage of climate change in Russia: Governmental bias and climate silence" . Public Understanding of Science . 24 (1): 96–111. doi : 10.1177/0963662513517848 . ISSN 0963-6625 . PMID 24510920 . S2CID 42674897 .
- ↑ "Kommersant; Presseurop (English)" . Presseurop . 2012. Archived from the original on 5 April 2014 . Retrieved 13 April 2012 .
- 1 2 3 Bessudnov, Alexei (1 February 2008). "Media Map" . Index on Censorship . 37 (1): 183–189. doi : 10.1080/03064220701882780 . ISSN 0306-4220 . S2CID 220926309 .
- 1 2 3 4 Arrese, Ángel (1 March 2017). "The role of economic journalism in political transitions" . Journalism . 18 (3): 368–383. doi : 10.1177/1464884915623172 . ISSN 1464-8849 . S2CID 147918088 .
- 1 2 3 Koikkalainen, Katja (1 December 2007). "The local and the International in Russian business journalism: Structures and practices" . Europe-Asia Studies . 59 (8): 1315–1329. doi : 10.1080/09668130701655176 . ISSN 0966-8136 . S2CID 153949932 .
- ↑ "Alfa-d Up" . Kommersant . Moscow. 31 January 2005. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011 . Retrieved 28 August 2009 .
- ↑ "The press in Russia" . BBC News . 16 May 2008 . Retrieved 29 November 2014 .
External links
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- Kommersant, English version online
- BBC news reporting on Kommersant's protest
- Photo gallery celebrating Kommersant's 15th anniversary
- Story in the St. Petersburg Times about the sale of Kommersant
- "Kommersant"(1909–1917) digital archives in "Newspapers on the web and beyond" , the digital resource of the National Library of Russia
Authority control
: National
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