RBC can sell in the next two weeks

Elnya, April 18, the owner of the ECH group Grigory Berezkin confirmed the fact of negotiations on the purchase of a media holding of RBC from the ONEXIM group Mikhail Prokhorov. According to Berezkin, in the next two weeks the deal may be closed.

“We are in the negotiations, we can say that now our positions have become close. In terms of terms, we are not talking about months, but about the next two weeks, ” Interfax quotes the owner of the UST.

Berezkin refused to comment on the amount of the transaction. “I can't say, sorry. So far, negotiations are still in the process, ”he said, adding that the purchase will be funded from his own funds.

Berezkin emphasized that the ECT group is not an intermediate buyer and represents only its own interests.

The upcoming transaction for the sale of RBC Berezkin, who is now a shareholder of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda and Metro , became known last week. Vedomosti wrote that the transaction could be closed before May 1, according to the VC.ru source, the deputy head of the Presidential Administration, Alexei Gromov, exerted a “very powerful” pressure on the owners of RBC, demanding to sell media holding.

Soon was a commentary on the press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov, who said that the Kremlin was not related to this deal and considers it a “personal case of private owners”. “RBC is a private media, we do not consider ourselves the right to somehow interfere in her fate,” Peskov said.