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Inevitably, but no less vile
Russian journalists and politicians comment on a series of scandalous layoffs in RBC
In the RBC holding, a series of high -profile dismissals that threaten a radical change in the editorial policy of the same name newspaper, magazine and television channel.
Rumors of pressure on Prokhorov and the possible defeat of the holding editor have long went on, in recent days they have become especially active .
The main news came already at the end of the working week: it became known that the holding was leaving the chief editor Elizabeth Ossetian , as well as the editor-in-chief of the RBC newspaper Maxim Solus and the editor-in-chief of the RBC news agency Roman Badanin . Subsequently, several more employees announced their imminent departure.
The pressure on media holding was traditionally associated with too independent editorial policy. It was RBC that published loud investigations about the family of Vladimir Putin and his immediate environment. RBC paid close attention to the study of documents about Panama offshores.
The top editors leaving the holding limited themselves to streamlined comments on their personal pages.
Dear everyone!
1. Thank you for your good words and support and forgive me for not going to the phone: I don’t know how to give comments, but it is they who are waiting for them from me <...>
4. My deputies and the head of the issue agreed to linger in RBC to ensure the release of the newspaper - so that everything that we all built for two years would not collapse in the same day (I call only those whom I personally asked about it). What will happen next to RBC, I do not understand. Today - this one here - the moment RBC remains one of the most free media in Russia (if not the most, let the competitors forgive me). Perhaps the "world backstage" will be satisfied with our dismissal, and RBC will have enough freedom to survive as an independent media. I really hope so, to be honest.
5. With colleagues I hope to say goodbye live, so I will personally make confessions in love.
Such things
My phone is torn. In this regard, three comments. 1) For comments, I will not remove it now, because there is no emotions and strength, and also because I am on an MRI, and it is better not to climb into it with iron objects. 2) I am indescribably very grateful to everyone who writes and calls with good words and wishes. Thank you! Without you, all this would not have happened.
Friends, thanks to everyone for support and for different good words to our address. I won’t talk to anyone now, please do not tear the phone, thanks for the understanding
APD: Thank you for these words of gratitude. shocking how many of them. So it’s definitely not in vain
One of the holding employees gave an anonymous comment to the Rus2Web portal:
The fact that there are any problems was known to everyone. Starting with the fact that Dmitry Kiselev in his program demonstrates the first lane of RBC with a note about Panama offshores, then searches are underway in the ONEXIM, then a criminal case. Naturally, everyone knew that there was discontent from the presidential administration regarding the editorial policy - but not all, but in the part that concerns Putin's family, the story with Katerina Tikhonova. They said that it was too much to link to directly on the first page of Putin’s newspaper and offshore. According to rumors, they did not like notes about the nearest circle of the president: about gold, about undeclared real estate. That is, everyone knew that there were problems, but no one knew when they would end. And even many had thoughts in the style of "carry"
Not carried. On Twitter and Facebook, an endless string of sad posts from Russian journalists, politicians and activists.
The leadership of the editorial office of RBC - Elizabeth Ossetian, Roman Badanin and Maxim Solu was dismissed. Ahead of the election - nothing should overshadow the idea of Juche.
- Guryanov Sergey (@segozavr) May 13, 2016
At first to tear off the pen, then RBC
- Alexey Venediktov (@aavst) May 13, 2016
What a horror with RBC. Great media, super investigations. Another raid of the bastard destructive Living Volodinsky Horde https://t.co/uhvwwzld7l
- Georgy Alburov (@alburov) May 13, 2016
RBC after the overclocking of the old tape.ru was the best publication of the country. Another publication - and the largest in the country - has become less in Russia.
- Pyotr Verzilov (@gruppa_voina) May 13, 2016
Colleagues with RBC, you are the best! And make it even better!
- Tikhon Dzyadko (@tikhondzyadko) May 13, 2016
Leva Lurie recently brought me RBC as an example and said, "Yes, everything is fine in journalism." And I, like it, rated that they were just not yet taken away. The fact that Leo seems good signals, just temporary omissions, hands did not reach.
Here they reached RBC.
What bastards are governing us. All living things must be burned in the bud.
In one week they got rid of new news and RBC. It's all terrible. Shells are torn literally under the feet.
The next spacecraft dispersed the best edition in Russia. Now only "Mediazon" remains
Elizaveta Osetinskya, Maxim Solus, Roman Badanin and all, thanks for the luxurious news that I read before I got out of bed.
For 16 years, it would seem that one could get used to it, but still damn sorry.
Colleagues are big, big well done.
It is disgusting to live in a country that the thieves rule.
Lisa, Roman, Maxim, it was very cool what you did.
It was even a little surprising that the objectivity of the media is possible these days for months. And the journalistic fundamental of the editors of RBC gained an assessment.
The Kremlin again destroys the best media in the country. Once again.
I remember that in December 2014 I argued that RBC would be closed during 2015. It's nice that I was mistaken, it is unpleasant that it was not much. And it was really the only edition that I opened every day, just to trace the picture of the day.
Bad news is the best domestic information resource (well, of those that are made within this very fatherland) is covered with a copper basin ((((
RBC, brothers, hold on. What you have done is fantastic.
to tears. What kind of manner to trample and destroy everything meaningful and professional. what <moism>.
Well, that was not bad. And we write down in a special book, write down
When the ghouls and their accomplices eliminated (that is, sterilized, like cats) popular and rather harmful tape.ru, as well as Gazeta.ru and Kommersant, it seemed to them that the media floor was cleaned. After all, Vedomosti, Forbes, Elephant, etc., with all the love of K, were niche, and not general publications. And RBC was a big trash (approximately like Blogs of Echo of Moscow, only news, not cries). And then from nowhere to get ...
The brilliant RBC team, lovingly collected from other publications and talented youth, made the impossible: in a country with permanently increasing censorship, it turned a dull G. into a free, honest and popular (!!) business and socio-political site. In the last year or two, this was the main combination of the content/mass alternative of TV-propaganda-the strongest alternative.
The guys walked absolutely against the current and completely reckless - in the 2015/16 season, the most difficult, some of their favorite media envy looked at what RBC finally allowed themselves, but they themselves did not dare to do so. It is important because the team is preserved, business, to continue to make the best of the possible, well, other such self -censorship self -justification. And for your team, they seemed to not exist at all: every day as the last. Thanks for the exciting texts and courage, dear friends.
With my eternal pessimism, I made a mistake in the forecast for a year --- in the summer in 2014 I thought that the current events would occur in the summer of 2015. The repressive-Upurs car swaying for a long time, but then he rides like that. And "how they closed RBC" is a very topic for a collective book. And do not delete RBC from bookmarks yet - as I understand it, the bulk of the editorial office works until the end of June.
While I found only two RBC editors who did not tell me that they would leave. After June 30, the desert will remain in the editorial office.
In the past two years, independent journalism has been dying in Russia; And RBC over these two years has become the main independent publication of Russia - with first -class investigations, with an impeccable reputation, with a multimillion -dollar audience. Without any reservations, without any discounts on difficult times.
Friday, May 13 is a truly bad day for all of us, for journalists and readers. This is the day when a miracle was destroyed before our eyes. There is not a single reason that could justify this. Behind this decision, there are no balanced thoughts of the owner, as there are no “state interests”. There is only resentment and revenge - they looked wrong, behaved wrong, they wrote wrong. You were told not to climb, but you climb. What happened to RBC is not a fight against an ideological enemy. No, this is a showdown in the gateway.
Dear Lisa, Roma, Maxim, Petya, Julia, Nadia and all-all-all. You made better the media in the country and, in general, again showed that everything is possible. And you still have everything ahead - because no one will take away what has already been done from you.
I remember once, in February of the 14th, my friend Julia Taratuta told me: "We made such a beautiful channel, and these mediocre bastards decided to destroy it, simply because they are mediocre and cannot do anything beautiful."
Guys, in just a couple of years you made a brilliant holding. And do a lot of amazing ones, because you can do it. And these mediocre bursts sooner or later.
Idiots do not understand
Shooting at RBC, they shot themselves not like that, but in some much more delicate places. Professionalism will not go anywhere, and the motivation to make real, lively, honest journalism will only be added.
Thank you, Elizaveta Osetinskya, Roman Badanin, Maxim Solus and all-all-all. "It was a great hunt", but not the last. And we will drive you game, do not hesitate.
I hug everyone.
Huge respect.
Good luck, guys, 100% still put your asses <eccentrics>
RBC will be very missing, very much. Thank you guys, for everything you did.
What a terrible day today. All colleagues from RBC are rays of sympathy and support. You are wonderful.
Heroic, beautiful journalists.
Thanks a lot
How, <...>, I'm tired of saying goodbye. Each time you hope that for a while, that we will survive them, that all loved ones will return and will do what they can - professional media.
You have made a wonderful media, and these monsters are ruining in their way! As they say, thank you for not planting and killed .. I understand that all these are empty words, but know that you are cool!
To all colleagues C#RBC - support and wishes for the hardness of the spirit!
The last Russian-speaking Internet resource that made sense to read.
Now only foreign media remain.
Congratulations! ((
In Putin's Russia, this was inevitable, but this is no less vile. Many thanks to Elizaveta Osetinskya, Roman Badanin, Maxim Solus and the entire RBC team for everything they did. And it was great to work together - I am terribly grateful for this chance. And only one thing can be said to be said to the censors, propagandists, loyal media managers and faithful media Magnates. We will still wait until they all die
As for RBC: there are no illusions, in Russia now it is impossible to engage in journalism. But, <sluchi>, this is not forever.
They ask to write about RBC, but I wrote everything already when it was with the tape:
This seems to me the most important point. Putin does not destroy Russian journalism, no. Putin and his people first created his journalism, the face of which is just my Kolya (Dolgachev), and not Kiselev at all, and only then, when each Ilya Azar already has ten correspondents of state media, only then, when it has no matter, they began to seriously destroy the inconspicuous ones against the background of “Rush Tudya”, “news” and other journalistic enterprises. You don’t have to deceive yourself, the tragedy of “tapes” is not a blow to journalism, but a private nuisance of several dozens of people from the “tape”, just like the defeat of Gazeta.ru was a private nuisance of her journalists, and my dismissal from Kommersant was mine and only my private trouble. No need to identify yourself with all Russian journalism. This is our troubles, not Russian journalism.
Well, yes, hello to everyone who laughed at Philip Dzyadko with his “fucking chain”, greetings to everyone who reasoned that Kovalsky with his ballot, of course, violated some norms of decency and got merit. Hello everyone who answered every journalistic sob that the journalist should not be an activist, and that you just need to do his job, and that both sides are always to blame for any production conflict.
It turned out that even comments from the "opposite" camps can be very different: just compare.
The leadership of the media holding of RBC was replaced. Perhaps this will lead to a change in the political course of the RBC holding. Now RBC is a very high -quality propaganda resource that works in the interests of the so -called 5th column. In one of the numbers, I counted 12 positive references to Navalny. RBC was clearly engaged in the propaganda of Navalny. RBC also directly distorted the reality in Ukraine. RBC in every possible way hid from the reader a crime of the Kyiv repressive regime, trying to present it as a normal democratic government. In particular, RBC tried to show the appointment of the Prime Minister of Ukraine as a result of the public political struggle of the Ukrainian parties, silent that the prime minister of Ukraine was appointed by the Vice of the United States, and the essence of the struggle was that Poroshenko begged the prime minister’s post to his man. Let's hope that as a result of the personnel shift of RBC will cease to be the propaganda resource of the Maidan and will become more objective. But it will not lose in quality. And it is not necessary to promote Navalny and Kyiv junta.
RBC opened the last time a little earlier than never. Therefore, I don’t even know whether this Hydra was strong, whether it was spit with poison, whether there was a worthy of ultimately.
I have nothing to say at all.
In fact, it is sad. The newspaper was absolutely alien to me, but it was made perfectly, so taking in my hands any number, I was generally aware of all the events of the day, which one way or another affecting the economy. As a rule, with a rather intelligible commentary, reflecting, of course, the corresponding point of view, but in the case. I really discovered this newspaper - “business, consulting - I understand little of this. But, having opened it, I have to take off my hat to the already former chief expense - a person, without a doubt, very professional. I would like not to disperse the editorial office, but create the editors of a similar level, albeit other directions. But something process is going on in a different direction.
The reasons for the defeat of the editorial office seem to be clear, but someone is trying to formulate them separately.
RBC should be closed, since RBC does not fit into the picture of the world of Russian propaganda.
Rain fits. Rain, relatively speaking, is stupid metropolitan boys in pink. They are grimacing and joking nastyly. Echo - conditional old dissidents with Jewish surnames. These are aching and carrying nonsense about morality. Against their background, the Kremlin looks adequate, logical, consistent in its own way.
But RBC is a problem. In RBC, businessmen in expensive costumes, people's people, with numbers and graphs.
Against their background, the Kremlin is insane transceptive.
Therefore, RBC should be removed. Leave an echo, ask him for it to be even more echo. And the rain, respectively.
After the dismissal of the leadership of RBC, the holding shares rose by 7%. Does this mean that the political revolution in RBC the politicized part of society and the business world was appreciated diametrically opposite?
It turns out that the first I consider the dismissal of the leadership of the defeat of RBC, and the latter - on the contrary, are a catalyst for changes that can increase the exchange value of RBC shares?
Or a sharp increase in the value of the shares of RBC means that the buyers have an inside, that RBC is about to buy someone who “does not stand for the price”? But in this case, for which the owner started a change in the leadership before the sale of RBC? Let the new owner do this. Or is it such a kind of "pre -sale preparation"?
Old ruthless times were something more honest. The defeats of magazines or theaters were preceded by the decisions of the Central Committee with claims and accusations. Now, the objectionable are dispersed so as not to leave traces, and giving orders get the opportunity to portray ignorance and give vile promises to figure it out.
Well, among other things, Mr. Prokhorov would be good to know that he was not at the Kremlin, who “has nothing to do with it,” but in front of these bastards-angons, who went to work under the work of the editorial offices with the demand to disperse. Let Mr. Prokhorov every millisecond of his serene multimillion-dollar life remembers that some kind of punks bent him.
But what to do - "Shpan" no one prevented, which remains only bitterly ironic over.
400 thousand people took place in the center of Moscow with portraits of the leadership of RBC and other journalists in defense of independent media and freedom of speech in Russia
When they came for ORT -
After all, I am not ORT.
When they came for NTV -
After all, I am not NTV.
When they came for the RENTS -
After all, I am not a rent.
When they came for a hard sign -
After all, I am not a hard sign.
When they came for RBC -
Although I'm not RBC -
I know who else
Left a line.
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Ivan Belyaev
Social Networks Editor Radio Liberty