Fired by the editor -in -chief "Kommersant"

By decision of the shareholders, today, November 10, the editorial director and editor -in -chief of the Kommersant newspaper Mikhail Mikhailin was dismissed from both posts. He denies the connection between his dismissal and the publication of the Rosneft material rebelled against the West.

“Mikhail Mikhailin leaves the post of chief editor of the newspaper Kommersant. This is our joint decision with him, ”Pavel Filenkov, Director General of Kommersant, told Interfax . “He solved all the tasks that were set for him, and completed the entire amount of work to our mutual satisfaction.”

“Russian newspaper” Filenkov said that the editorial office of the Kommersant newspaper was proposed by the chief editor of the Kommersant-Doney weekly Sergey Yakovlev.

The source of RBC in Kommersant, as a possible reason for the departure of Mikhailin, called the article “Rosneft” published in the newspaper in the newspaper in late October, Rosneft rebuilt against the West , which states a letter from the leadership of the oil company Vladimir Putin with a demand to tighten the response sanctions against the West.

Rosneft immediately refuted the facts set forth in the article, and the head of the company Igor Sechin expressed his intention to sue Kommersant.

“My departure is not connected with any article about Sichin. - explained Mikhailin RBC. - When she was released, I was on a business trip in China. There is no need for conspiracyology, I went on a creative vacation, this is our joint decision with the shareholder. ” Mikhailin added that after creative vacation he would be engaged in Internet projects of the owner of the Kommersant Publishing House Alisher Usmanov.

“I completed the entire amount of tasks set in front of me with the SD and the shareholder. Therefore, going on a creative vacation was a joint decision. - cites the words of Mikhailin"Kommersant" . - I have to look around and propose the concept of the development of electronic media belonging to the [company of Usmanov. - colta.ru] USM and Kommersant, at the junction of the Internet and traditional journalism. "

Mikhail Mikhailin became the editor-in-chief of Kommersant in 2010, before that he held different positions in Kommersant, was the editor-in-chief of the online publication Gazeta.ru.