Planetary disaster

The release of Internet newspapers "Russian Planet" was suspended indefinitely. It is reported by Rambler News Service with reference to an unnamed source close to the publication.

At August, all employees of the Russian Planet are sent on vacation in connection with the "reorganization of the publication," the agency’s interlocutor said. Whether the newspaper will continue work in September is unknown.

The regional editor of the newspaper Daria Köln on his FB page in response to the question of whether “resuscitation” is possible, she noticed : “Rather, no than yes.”

According to RNS, the publisher of the Russian Planet - the Morton group of companies - stopped financing the newspaper in May last May, referring to the fact that he had lost interest in the media business. Meanwhile, Medusa transfers with reference to the chief expense of Mediazons Sergey Smirnov, who in 2013-2014 was the deputy chief editor of the Russian Planet, which Morton is still the actual publisher of the newspaper, although another company is formally allocated to the publication.

"Russian Planet" was founded in May 2013. The first one and a half years, her chief editor was a famous journalist and blogger Pavel Terenikov, who positions himself as a European left. In the fall of 2012, Pryanikov ran for the coordination council of the opposition on the general civil list, but lost the election. The first months of the publication was virtually independent.

However, on March 13, 2014, five journalists left the Russian Planet. “In short,“ Crimea placed everything in places, ”one of the resigned, Yegor Skovoroda, is now an employee of the Mediazones, explained his step. - And I - personally for myself - I do not see any more opportunity to invest in our general project in the new political conditions. "

Another departed journalist, Pavel Nikulin, said that he had quit due to censorship. According to him, Pryanikov refused to publish several of his texts, which he wrote during a business trip to the Crimea. In addition, when publishing news about the attack on Nikulin in Crimea, the chief editor refused to indicate in the heading the journalist belonging to the publication.

Meanwhile, at the beginning of December 2014, Perenikov himself was dismissed from the publication without explanation . Most of the team went after him.

The new edition of the "Russian planet" took the frankly pro -Kremlin position.