The editor -in -chief of Gazeta.ru resigned

The editor -in -chief of the newspaper.ru Mikhail Kotov quit the publication, reports Lenta.ru with reference to the journalist himself. The cats did not call the reasons for his departure, noting only that he had left. The press service of the company SUP Media, which owns Gazeta.ru, said that they were not ready to comment on Kotov’s dismissal.

“Kotov announced his departure due to disagreements with the new leadership. Fucked,” the edition employee writes on Twitter. What "new leadership" is in question, is not specified.

It is reported that the duties of the chief editor will be assumed by the managing director of Gazeta.ru and the site Championship.com Dmitry Sergeev.

Mikhail Kotov headed Gazeta.ru since 2010. He replaced Mikhail Mikhailin in this position, who was appointed editor -in -chief of Kommersant. Kotov worked in Gazeta.ru almost since the foundation of the publication, since 1999. Since 2005, Kotov served as deputy chief editor of the Internet newspaper.

During the 2011 electoral company, Gazeta.ru was in the center of the loud scandal in due to the withdrawal of the project “A map of the elections” from the site of the banner, which the publication was engaged in conjunction with the Human Rights Association “Voice”. The deputy chief editor Gazeta.ru Roman Badanin resigned in protest against this decision.

As Kotov explained then, the banner was removed from the site exclusively for commercial reasons. “We actually occupied commercial places with a“ card of violations ”. Now, since there are a lot of advertising, and in December there are always a lot of advertising, the commercial department decided that the money is more expensive than the“ card, ”Kotov said.