Ex-head forbes.ru moved to Interfax

Former Forbes website editor Roman Badanin was appointed Executive Director of Internet projects of Interfax agency.

This was reported by Badanin was reported by Lente.ru .

He left Forbes.ru , which he headed since December 2011, in August 2013. According to sources on the media market, Badanin left due to conflict with Regina von Fleming, General Director of the Axel Springer Russia publishing house, which produces Forbes . Instead, Irina Telitsyna, who previously headed Forbes Woman , became the editor -in -chief of the Forbes website.

Before Forbes, Badanin worked for ten years at Gazeta.ru. He left the post of deputy chief editor of the publication at the end of November 2011 with the closure of the project “A map of election violations”, which Gazeta.ru made in conjunction with the Voice human rights association. The leadership of the publication then stated that the banner was removed, because earlier the Badanin demanded that the Equal Russia pre -election advertisement be removed from the site.