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Managing Director of RBC TV channel Elmar Murtazaev will leave the holding
Managing director of the RBC TV channel Elmar Murtazaev will resign from the holding, Vedomosti newspaper reports, citing sources.
According to the publication, Murtazaev plans to “leave journalism and start his own business.” There are no details about the journalist’s plans in the publication.
According to Vedomosti’s interlocutors, other employees of the TV channel may leave the holding after Murtazaev.
Elmar Murtazaev informed the holding’s management of his desire to resign several months ago, RBC CEO Nikolai Molibog told Vedomosti. It was decided to postpone the issue until the completion of the deal to sell the holding; Now the parties “have returned to this issue, but there is no final solution.” Murtazaev himself also told the newspaper that there is “no decision yet.”
Sources in the publication told Meduza about the plans of Murtazaev and a number of other editorial managers to leave RBC after the sale of the holding to Berezkin in June.
[New owner of the RBC holding Grigory] Berezkin does not at all insist on changing the RBC TV team, Vedomosti’s interlocutors claim. Molibog also hopes to maintain this edition, they add.
- Elmar Murtazaev came to RBC TV channel in March 2016. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine.
- In June 2017, Mikhail Prokhorov sold the RBC holding to businessman Grigory Berezkin. Berezkin stated that he does not intend to influence the editorial policy of the holding.
- It soon became known that Rosneft would enter into a settlement agreement with RBC, from which it demanded three billion rubles because of an article about Igor Sechin; According to Republic, it was Grigory Berezkin who led the negotiations with Rosneft.