Gift for the elections

Until recently, the media was full of headlines about the possible sale of Kommersant. They say that the negotiations will be completed in the near future - either the Gazprom structure or Russian Railways may become the new owner. And today it became known that the Prof-Media media holding has agreed to sell its stake in the Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house to the Gazprom-Media holding. In an effort to control the media, the authorities do not hesitate to use normal methods; they cannot always put pressure on them through courts and laws; sometimes they can buy something.