FAS allowed Berezkin to buy another 30% RBC

The FAS Russia allowed the Council of Project, which is part of the USN Grigory Berezkin, to buy another 30.81% of the RBC holding. The corresponding decision is published on the website of the department.

Thus, Berezkin will have 95.9% of the voting shares of RBC, the document is noted. The businessman made an offer to buy the remaining shares in early August. As Kommersant wrote , UST can spend up to 875.8 million rubles on these shares.

The businessman bought 65.43% of media holding shares in June. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. As vc.ru wrote , to sell the holding of the previous owner of Mikhail Prokhorov forced “powerful pressure” from the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Alexei Gromov, who allegedly considered the “personal insult” of the publication of RBC about protest rallies and a note about changing the agenda of federal television channels.

In July, the RBC channel left almost the entire team led by Elmar Murtazaev. The managing director of the channel was appointed Igor Poletaev, who conducted the program “Today” on NTV and in 2000-2006 worked for RBC; The director of the development of RBC was Alexei Abakumov, who was called a person close to Gromov.

In early August, Rain, citing sources, spoke about the appearance of experts on the RBC television channel, from whom you can’t take comments. In addition, employees were obliged to show before sending all requests for comments to the authorities and provide their pages on social networks.