The leadership of the editorial office of RBC was dismissed

RBC editor Elizabeth Ossetian, editor-in-chief of RBC Roman Badanin and editor-in-chief of the RBC newspaper Maxim Solus are dismissed. This was reported to the Mediazone by a source in RBC.

The interlocutor of the Mediazones clarified that the Ossetian and Badanin were fired by agreement of the parties, and Solus was dismissed from his position “against his will”.

Later, a press release on the departure of Ossetian, Solus and Badanin with a comment by the Director General of RBC Nikolai Molibog appeared on the holding website. It is reported that their last working day is May 13. New appointments will be announced later.

“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 work and for contribution to the development of the company, ”said Molibog.

On May 11,it became known about the initiation of a criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale in the RBC holding. At the disposal of the editorial office of the RNS agency, there was a notification on the initiation of the case on the statement of the former Baitte-Telecom shareholder Alexander Panov. Until the end of September 2014, 75% of the shares of this company belonged to the RBC holding. Panov said that he and another shareholder of Yaroslav, Karetsky, were deprived of a share in the company (12.5% ​​of each shares).

Earlier, on April 14, in the office of the ONEXIM group of Mikhail Prokhorov, which includes RBC holding, searches were among the assets. Then Gazeta.ru reported that Prokhorov could sell RBC to the National Media Group Yuri Kovalchuk.

Sources of the publication reported that the cause of the sale is the discontent of the Kremlin with the editorial policy of RBC. In particular, it was about publications about the director of the Innopractics Foundation Katerina Tikhonova, which Reuters sources were called the daughter of Vladimir Putin. One of the interlocutors of Gazeta.ru also talked about the extremely negative reaction to Putin’s photograph, used as an illustration for an article on Panama offshores.