"Russian Planet" closed

The publication "Russian Planet" has suspended work for an indefinite period. about this on Facebook Daria Koln, an employee of the regional editorial office of the site, wrote . According to her, the publication is closed from August 2.

The RNS agency, citing an unnamed source , reports that in August the employees of the Russian Planet will be sent on vacation "due to the reorganization of the publication." At the same time, it is not known whether the site will resume work in September.

RNS notes that the investor of the Russian Planet, the Morton group of companies, stopped financing the project a year ago. Sergey Smirnov, editor-in-chief of Mediazona, who worked as deputy editor-in-chief of Russian Planet in 2013-2014, claims that in reality Morton continued to finance the site, although another company was formally an investor.

• The Russian Planet website was launched in 2013. In December 2014, by decision of the investor, the editor-in-chief of the publication Pavel Pryanikov was fired. He was replaced by the publisher Alexander Isaev, who oversaw the project from the side of the investor. At a meeting with the staff of the Russian Planet, the new editor-in-chief of the publication, Eduard Eidin, said that the “basic paradigm” of the site would be that “Russia is a sovereign, self-sufficient country.”