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The new leadership of the RBC television channel entered the “stop lists” of experts, to whom journalists are forbidden to contact for comments. It is reported by "Rain" with reference to sources in RBC.

In mid -August, the new head of the RBC production service, RBC, demanded that the employees provide lists of experts on domestic and foreign policy, as well as for power structures. She explained that she would make a consolidated list from which it would not be possible to retreat.

Filippovskaya also announced to the employees of RBC that henceforth, all issues for interviews with representatives of federal departments should be pre -consistent with Alexander Steinbukh. He leads the analytical department recently created on the channel. Prior to this, Steinbukh worked in VGTRK.

In the consolidated list, which has at the disposal of “rain”, expert phones are accompanied by “very good”, “can, but carefully”, “only in agreement with Steinbukh”.

In addition, RBC employees were obliged to send exiles to their pages on Facebook and VKontakte social networks. If journalists have no accounts in social networks, they will have to register in them.

Filippov’s messages about the requirement for employees to provide a list of experts and the compilation of “stop lists” categorically deny. RBC managing director Igor Poletaev replied through the press service that the expert data database was "updated" to expand the list and improve the quality of expert opinion. On the TV channel, he said, “there is no censorship and there are no stop lists of either experts or newsmakers.

In April last year, Gazeta.ru wrote about the plans of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov to sell the 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.

On August 7, Medusa, citing a source in the holding, reported that leading journalists and leaders will leave RBC. In particular, RBC-TV will leave the managing director Elmar Murtazaev along with the team that he brought a year ago, General Producer Alexander Bogomolov and product director Igor Sadreev, head of the information service Alfiya Ziver and correspondents Roman Super and Rodion Chepel. Leading Stanislav Kucher also thinks about leaving RBC-TV, the source said.