Leaders and leading journalists are going to leave RBC-TV

The management director Elmar Murtazaev will leave the RBC-TV channel along with the team that he brought a year ago. It is reported by "Medusa" with reference to a source in the holding.

The creative producer of RBC-TV, Alexander Urzhanov, confirmed Meduza that he plans to leave the channel after Murtazaev’s departure. "We had a general channel development strategy, and it is difficult to continue to implement it without it," said Urzhanov.

The source of the publication also said that the general producer Alexander Bogomolov and the director of the product Igor Sadreyev, the head of the information service Alfiya Ziver and correspondents Roman Super and Rodion Chepel will leave RBC-TV. Leading Stanislav Kucher also thinks about leaving RBC-TV, the source said.

At the same time, Sadreev himself, to the question of possible care, stated: "While we are working." Bogomolov refused comments.

The day before, Murtazaev’s decision to leave RBC and opened his own business was reported to Vedomosti. It also became known that from Monday, July 10, the heads of the RBC-TV departments are spent on a paid leave until October.

In April last year, Gazeta.ru wrote about <plans of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorova a href = "/Society/Media/M.250853.html"> Sell media holding RBC. It was claimed that the order to change the owner of RBC was given "at the highest level."

In May 2016, the leadership was replaced in RBC . The media holding left the chief editor Elizabeth Ossetian, as well as the chief editor of the newspaper RBC Maxim Solus and the RBC information agency Roman Badanin. The resignations were associated with the discontent of the Kremlin with the editorial policy of the holding. Publications of RBC about the youngest daughter Vladimir Putin Katerina Tikhonova and her husband Kirill Shamalov were especially painful.

On June 16, Grigory Berezkin, the founder of the ECT group, which includes the Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House and the Metro newspaper, completed the deal to buy a media holding . The businessman acquired from Prokhorov 65 percent of RBC shares and the holding debt obligations. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Also, it was not specified how the issue with the debt of RBC the ONEKIM Prokhorov group was settled, which was more than $ 200 million.

“Today we see the goal of RBC not only to strengthen the leading positions of the holding, but also to accept the challenges facing the media and IT industries in the offensive of the digital economy,” said Nikolai Molibog CEO. fully ".

“We are pleased to welcome the RBC holding team in our group. In my opinion, RBC is now one of the leading media holdings in Russia, and we see a great potential for its development in different areas of business,” Berezkin said.