"Rain": Grigory Berezkin bought RBC

The owner of the ESN group, Grigory Berezkin, bought the RBC holding from the structures of Mikhail Prokhorov, . Dozhd TV channel reports, citing three sources close to the holding’s management and a source close to the deal

“I can’t say about today or not. Still, Friday is a debauchery. But there is very little time left [before the deal is closed," Berezkin himself told Dozhd.

Press secretary of the Onexim company Andrey Belyak did not comment on the information to the TV channel, promising to provide a comment later.

Unified Social Tax representative Marina Belousova refused to comment on the information.

Previously, Forbes , citing a source close to one of the parties to the transaction , reported that representatives of the Onexim company and the UST group plan to sign documents on the transaction on June 15.

At the beginning of June, the Vedomosti newspaper reported that after purchasing the RBC media holding, the owner of the Unified Social Network Berezkin could purchase the Russian version of Forbes magazine.

On May 26, the Federal Antimonopoly Service approved the purchase of the RBC holding by the Unified Social Tax structure of Grigory Berezkin from the structures of Mikhail Prokhorov, but the timing of closing the deal was not specified . Before the deal was approved, Vedomosti’s source claimed that “mostly technical details remained.”

sources In April, vc.ru reported that Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Alexei Gromov insisted on changing the owner of RBC. The publication's sources claimed that Gromov intensified pressure on the holding after publications about the protests on March 26. According to them, the presidential administration is thinking about changing the information agenda on television channels. A Mediazona source confirmed this information.