Dismissed by the main edges of RBC

Today, May 13, the editor -in -chief of the RBC information agency Roman Badanin and the editor -in -chief of the RBC newspaper Maxim Solus were dismissed.

This was reported by Lenta.ru with reference to a source in the RBC holding. The press secretary of the holding Yegor Timofeev refused to comment.

According to Medusa , Badanin, as well as the editor-in-chief of RBC Elizabeth Ossetian announced leaving the holding after they became aware of the dismissal of Solus.

According to the Lenta.ru source in RBC, today at 16:00 Moscow time a meeting with the editorial team will be held.

In mid -April in Moscow, the FSB and the Federal Tax Service conducted searches in several companies of the ONEKIM group Mikhail Prokhorov. At the same time, it was reported that the searches may have been associated with an attempt to put pressure on the entrepreneur so that he agreed to sell the RBC media holding belonging to him.

On April 24, Gazeta.ru with reference to several sources close to the structures of Mikhail Prokhorov, wrote about the activation of negotiations on the sale of RBC and the energy company "Quadra", as well as that the order to change the owner of RBC was given at the highest level.

On May 11, information appeared that on April 29, the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow opened a case of fraud, according to which the heads of RBC will be checked. Soon, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there was no pressure on the RBC holding, and Vladimir Putin had not met with Mikhail Prokhorov lately.

PS on the website of RBC published a message officially confirming the information about leaving the holding of Roman Badanin, Elizabeth Ossetian and Maxim Solus.

“Recently, we talked a lot about how to further develop RBC, and in these conversations we could not come to a consensus regarding important issues, so we decided to part. I want to thank Elizabeth, Roman and Maxim for the work and contribution to the development of the company, ”quotes the words of the General Director of RBC Nikolai Molibog.

“The new purposes in the structure of media projects of RBC will be announced later,” said RBC CEO.

PPS spokesman for president Dmitry Peskov did not agree with the approval of the head of the Union of Journalists of Moscow Pavel Gusev, who declared the leadership of RBC in connection with the dismissal of the leadership of RBC that “there is a pressure of power and the political component in this decision,” Interfax reports. Peskov answered negatively and to the question of whether these resignations were made from the Kremlin’s knowledge.

Earlier, Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications, Alexei Volin, said: “There is no need to see the political background in those things where it cannot be found even with a more in -depth digging.”

“The owner of RBC had every reason to be dissatisfied with the activities of the management of his company for many years,” the deputy minister added.