Break of tape

The editor -in -chief of Lenta.ru Galina Timchenko leaves his position from Wednesday, according to the website of the publication. This decision was made by the owner of the joint company "Poster-Rabler-Sup" Alexander Mamut. Timchenko, who worked in feed.ru since founding in 1999, led the publication since 2004.

Alexei Gororevsky was appointed the new editor -in -chief of the publication. He has been working in the United Company "Afisha-Rabler-Sup" since May 2013. He currently holds the position of deputy general director of the company for external communications. Prior to coming to the United Company, Goreslavsky published the online magazine Euromag.ru. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of the Prochrevskaya Internet Gazeta "View". Gorozlavsky was also the president of the Aggency One Communication Agency, was a member of the election headquarters of Mikhail Prokhorov, was engaged in Internet projects of Interfax, MK and other publications.

Following Timchenko, the majority of Lenta.ru employees quit. “We believe that this appointment is a direct pressure on the editorial office of Lenta.ru,” the journalists said in a collective statement of journalists . “The dismissal of an independent editor -in -chief and the appointment of a managed, including directly from the Kremlin cabinets, a person is already a violation of the media law that speaks the inadmissibility of censorship.”

“Over the past couple of years, the space of free journalism in Russia has decreased dramatically,” the tape.ru writes. “Some editions are directly controlled from the Kremlin, others through curators, others who are afraid to lose their jobs. Some media are closed, others will close in the coming months. The trouble is not to work. The trouble is that the trouble is more to read.”

On Thursday, Roskomnadzor issued a warning to Lente.ru for the publication of an interview with one of the leaders of the Ukrainian nationalist movement "Right Sector" Andrei Tarasenko. The press release of Roskomnadzor emphasized that in an interview with Tarasenko, as well as in the material “Dmitro Yarosh: sooner or later, but we are doomed to fight with the Moscow Empire”, which is given a link in the text, “contains statements aimed at exciting national growth”.

Timchenko later said that Roskomnadzor demanded only to remove the hyperlink.

On September 8, Mamut resigned the editor -in -chief of Gazeta.ru Svetlana Lolaeva . "He told me that there are no complaints about my work, they just searched for a new editor -in -chief for a long time," Lolaeva said.

Svetlana Babaeva, who previously worked in the Moscow News, Izvestia and RIA Novosti, was appointed chief expense of the publication.

The completion of the transaction to combine the Afisha-Rarambler, which was part of the "Prof Media" by Vladimir Potanin, and belonging to the SUP Media Mamut, was announced on May 20 last year. The United Company Afisha Rabler-Sup, which includes Rambler.ru, Afisha.ru, Lenta.ru, Gazeta.ru, Livejournal.com, the Championship.com, became the largest media holding in the Russian segment of the Internet.

The parties own parity shares in the combined business, while the mamut is a managing shareholder.

Lenta.ru is the most read online publication in Russia. At the beginning of this year, the number of direct visits to the site exceeded 200 thousand per day, and during the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine, this indicator reached 500 thousand. 100 thousand readers entered the website of Lenti.ru daily for a week. In the crisis, this audience has grown to 175 thousand.

The Lente.ru website takes 16th place in the Russian rating , second only to social networks and search engines, and 381st place in the world. More than 234 thousand users were signed on the Twitter account of the publication. The page of the publication on the social network "VKontakte" has more than 450 thousand subscribers. In recent years, in addition to the news, copyright columns, articles, interviews, reports, text online broadcasts, videos and other formats have appeared in the publication. Last year, experts of Society for News Design (SND) recognized the new Lenta design.