Konstantin Eggert leaves the post of editor -in -chief "Kommersant FM"

The editor -in -chief of the Kommersant FM radio station Konstantin Eggert will leave the position on July 8, according to the Twitter of the radio station. It also clarifies that the new head of the radio station will be the vice-president of Kommersant Publishing House on Radio Maria Komarova, and Eggert will become her deputy.

"As far as I understand, the decision with the elimination of duplication of functions. I become a deputy and will fulfill the functions that I performed before," said RIA Novosti Eggert himself.

The acting editor -in -chief Eggert became in March. Then the post of vice president of the ID took Komarova, who previously worked as a press secretary of the Governor of the Saratov Region, United Russia Pavel Ipatov, and then the vice-mayor of Saratov according to ideology.

Forbes notes that in 2006, Komarova was dismissed at the insistence of the prosecutor's office of the Saratov region on the basis of violations of the law at the conclusion of an employment contract. She herself then stated that she was fired illegally when she was on sick leave. "Kommersant" at the same time associated this dismissal with a split in the ranks of the regional branch of "United Russia".