OpenSpace portal stops working

The OpenSpace portal stops working at the initiative of its owner Vadim Belyaev. On the main page of the publication there is an inscription "Dear readers, as they say." The editor of the portal Maxim Kovalsky believes that the closure of the resource has a political background. He spoke about this in an interview with colta.ru.

In 2010, a portal writing about the news of culture and media changed the owner. In June 2012, the editor -in -chief of the portal Maria Stepanova left its position, the editors were completely updated. She was headed by Kovalsky. The theme has changed to socio-political. According to Glavred, from the owner of the owner "there was no talk of any ideological boundaries at all." Kovalsky agreed with the assumption of the journalist COLTA that Belyaev "poorly imagined the boundaries of his capabilities", reforming the project.

“I don’t think that the matter is in some specific materials. They study them and emphasize especially impudent passages with red pencil? Yes, they read and Openspase in the coffin, and everyone else! I believe, in figures, and not in the texts. Look at how they removed the faith of Krichevskaya, Trinity, now we and Ninka Kutsyllo. Maybe this is a mania of persecution, a mania of persecution. Of course, in the morning it will pass, but so far I see the picture that way, ”Kovalsky noted.

At the same time, he emphasized that the expressions in which Belyaev announced the closure of the portal were "extremely correct and friendly." For Kovalsky, the closure of the resource was completely unexpected. “Let this sound funny, but the first high -quality editorial board, on which it was truly interesting to everyone and was invented a lot of witty, happened from us on Friday morning. Well, in the evening the project took and closed,” he said.

Kovalsky left Kommersant by agreement of the parties in December 2011. Kovalsky left the holding after the publication in the magazine "Power", published after the elections to the State Duma, photographs of the ballot ballot with an obscene inscription addressed to Vladimir Putin. The owner of the Kommersant holding Alisher Usmanov said that this publication “borders on petty hooliganism” and fired Kovalsky, but later the board of directors canceled this decision.