Ownically speaking

After the owner of the owner, the Forbes magazine will cease to write about politics. This was stated by the owner of Artcom Media Group Alexander Fedotov in an interview with RBC.

“We will not interfere in the editorial policy of Forbes, but we want it to be a magazine about business and economics. In Russia, it is a little politicized. We will try to write about what is interesting to our readers. I am sure that they are less interested in the policy.“ It is clear that we are politicized. But still Forbes is business media, and I think that we will simply try not to try not to try not to try not to try not Go to the political territory. "

The magazine will also not raise the topics of the income of officials and managers of state -owned companies. “I sincerely believe that the people who read Forbes are not interested in the salaries of officials,” the new owner noted. “I can’t say that Forbes will not write about it - this will depend much on a specific story and context. But I think that it is not necessary to write about it.”

In early September, it became known that the German media holding Axel Springer, the Forbes publisher, will leave the Russian market and sell 80 percent of the group’s assets in Russia Fedotov. The remaining 20 percent of the Axel Springer Russia can go to the current general director of the company Regina von Fleming. It was she who conducted on behalf of Axel Springer negotiations on the sale of Russian assets.

Axel Springer Russia publishes in addition to Forbes OK!, Geo, GEO Traveler, GEOLOLOK, GALA Biography, controls the Finanz.ru website. According to TNS Russia, the average audience of one Forbes number in Russia is 1.5 million people, GEO is 1.25 million, OK weekly! - 585 thousand people. The audience of Forbes.ru in July was approximately 3 million people, Finanz.ru - 0.5 million, Geo.ru - 0.3 million.

According to the SPARK -Interfax system, the revenue of the Axel Springer Russia at the end of 2014 reached 872 million rubles, and a pure loss of 155 million. The revenue of the global media holding Axel Springer over the past year amounted to about 3 billion euros, net profit - 251 million euros.

Artcom Media Group is presented on the market as magazines about lifestyle and fashion (Numéro, Port, SNC), as well as design publications (Internet, Objekt, Exterieurs Design).

Axel Springer began to actively look for a buyer for his assets in Russia in connection with the adoption of a law on restriction of foreign capital in the Russian media.

In 2010, amendments were amended by the media law that limit the participation of foreign persons in the capital of television and radio companies with 50 percent. In September 2014, the legislation was tightened even more - new amendments allow only a 20 percent share of foreign persons in the Russian media, not only electronic, but also printed ones. Russian companies and individuals acting as the founders of the media through foreign jurisdictions should bring the structure of ownership in accordance with the new requirements of the law by 2017.