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RBC media holding is left by the chief editor Elizaveta Ossetian, editor-in-chief of the newspaper RBC Maxim Solus and the editor-in-chief of the RBC information agency Roman Badanin. This is stated in a press release from the holding.

“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,” said Nikolai Molibog General Director Nikolai Molibog.

Formally, all three managers are dismissed by agreement of the parties. Meanwhile, sources in the media holding report that Solus was fired from his position. After that, Badanin and Ossetian announced the departure from the holding.

After the dismissal of the main editors about leaving RBC, the leading journalists of the holding announced . The deputy chief edges of the RBC website Irina Malkova and Nadezhda Ivanitskaya announced their resignation. They will work until the end of June. In addition, the deputy chief edges of the newspaper RBC Julia Yarosh and Peter Mironenko will leave the holding. Yarosh indicated that it remains for the transition period for the transfer of cases. Mironenko quits after June 30.

Valery Igumenov did not specify the date of his departure. He noted that he formally remained the last editor -in -chief of the holding, "but this is not for long." According to preliminary estimates of the SNOB publication, 13 people are dismissed from RBC.

Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Alexei Volin said that there was no political background in the departure of the leadership of the RBC holding. “There is no need to see the political background in those things where even with more in -depth digging it cannot be found,” said Volin. “The owner of RBC had every reason to be dissatisfied with the activities of the management of his company for many years.”

“As there was a hole with a debt, it remained. Its managers generated losses, not profit,” the deputy minister added. “Search for a policy where the economy is purely pointless.”

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov denies that the departure of RBC editors is associated with the pressure of power to the holding. Peskov also answered “no” to the question whether these resignations were made from the Kremlin’s knowledge.

On April 14, in the main building of the ONEXIM group of companies on Tver Boulevard in Moscow, as well as in a number of structures associated with it, searches were held . Some sources associated searches with pressure on the owner of "ONEKSIM" Mikhail Prokhorov. According to them, in this way, an entrepreneur is trying to make a media holding of RBC.

However, Peskov denied that the editorial policy of RBC holding could be put in this way. "It is absolutely inappropriate to link some investigative actions that take place in the holding, with the editorial activities of RBC, all the more to link it somehow with the Kremlin," Peskov said.

On April 15, the FSB Center for Public Relations said that special services, together with the Federal Tax Service, conducted searches of premises as part of an investigation into a criminal case under OJSC Tauride Bank . "As a result of the primary measures, information was obtained about violation of the commercial structures of the requirements of tax legislation. The documentation seized was transferred for further research by specialists in order to take appropriate procedural measures," the report said.

On April 24, Gazeta.ru, citing sources in the market, including Prokhorova’s close circle, said that the businessman was preparing to sell the RBC media holding. Negotiations are also underway on the sale of the square company controlled by the billionaire. Prokhorov intends to "get rid of unnecessary assets", but has no plans to sell all his property, the interlocutors of the publication noted. They also said that he did not want to leave the country.

It was claimed, the order to change the owner of RBC "was given at the highest level." The editorial policy of this publication, the interlocutors of Gazeta.ru explained, has long been discontent in the Kremlin. Publications of RBC about the youngest daughter Vladimir Putin Katerina Tikhonova and her husband Kirill Shamalov were especially painful. In addition, it is reported that the photo of Putin, which illustrated the article by the RBC about Panama offshores, was extremely negative reaction.

According to one of the interlocutors of Gazeta.ru, Prokhorov and his environment "are really scared, because they have a clear understanding that they angered the country's first person."

On Wednesday, it became known that on April 29, the Main Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow opened a criminal case of fraud in the media holding of RBC . As part of the case, Molibog, financial director Igor Selivanov, vice-president of ONEXIMA Derk Sauer and other former and current employees of RBC will be checked.

The application at the Ministry of Internal Affairs was submitted by Alexander Panov, a former shareholder of Bayt-Telecom. RBC owned three quarters of the shares of this company through four offshore companies. Panov and Yaroslav Karetsky had 12.5 percent of the shares of the company. According to Panov, RBC illegally reorganized by Baytte Telecom, thereby depriving him of his Kari property. RBC said that they sold their share in Baitte Telecom in September 2014 in full accordance with the law.