Usmanov can buy "Gazeta.Ru"

The Publishing House "Secret of the company" entered into an agreement on the sale of a popular online publication "Gazeta.Ru" . According to RBC Daily from the “source close to negotiations”, the potential acquirer of the publication was the general director of Gazprominvestholding Alisher Usmanov, who decided to supplement the Internet media holding : the newspaper Kommersant and 7V TV channel.

According to RBC Daily, the parties agreed on fundamental issues and documents on the sale of Gazeta.Ru may be signed in the near future. Usmanov was inaccessible to comments. As explained in Gazprominvestholding, he "does not want to run ahead of the steam locomotive." In the "secret of the company" information on the sale of Gazeta.ru is also not confirmed.

Market participants, familiar with the situation, say that Usmanov is ready to pay about $ 30 million for the Internet newspaper. “As I understand it,“ Gazeta.ru ”was sold for the price for which the entire publishing house“ The Secret of the Company, ”says President Eido Rodionova Alexei Volin.“ It is clear that without a “newspaper.ru” this publishing house is not needed and the remaining magazines can be put into waste paper. ” Volin is sure that if the deal takes place, she will mean that the owners of the "secret of the company" decided to get out of the business.

Recall that the publishing house "Secret of the company" bought 100% Gazeta.Ru in November 2005. According to experts, the amount of the transaction amounted to $ 5-10 million.