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Vladimir Kozhin confirmed his claims to the Izvestia newspaper brand

The newspaper Vremya Novostey (March 7 of this year) has already written that the Presidential Administration (AD) is laying claim to the brand of the Izvestia newspaper.

Let us recall that ten years ago Izvestia was officially divided into two independent enterprises: the joint-stock company Editorial Board of the Izvestia Newspaper and the printing and publishing complex, which became the federal state unitary enterprise (FSUE) Izvestia Publishing House of the Presidential Administration.

Recently, the large-circulation Federal State Unitary Enterprise published a report on a meeting in the management department, at which the manager of the department, Vladimir Kozhin, stated that the trademark belongs to the newspaper illegally, since it is “federal property.” In this regard, the UD intends to file lawsuits. True, after the newspaper Vremya Novostey wrote about these claims, the press service of the Management Department reported that “the manager of the affairs did not make official statements on this topic.”

And on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Vladimir Kozhin himself, in a conversation with journalists, publicly admitted that the UD indeed has certain plans for the brand of one of the leading national daily newspapers. True, when a correspondent for the Vremya Novostei newspaper asked the business manager a question on this topic, he asked to clarify its essence, immediately making the reservation that “there is no intrigue here.”

According to the Kremlin official, “there are documents that are in Rospatent, and they say that the Izvestia brand belongs and belonged to the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Izvestia Publishing Complex, which, in turn, is part of the business management.” “That’s all, and then we will have a constructive dialogue with the newspaper on how to move forward,” he concluded. True, Kozhin’s statement that the business management began negotiations with the editors about the fate of the trademark was immediately refuted by the press service of the Izvestia newspaper itself.

Victor MATVEEV, St. Petersburg