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Demyan Kudryavtsev announced the change of the owner of the “Vedomosti” - we analyze what this means

The owner of the newspaper Vedomosti Demyan Kudryavtsev. Photo: Facebook Demyan Kudryavtsev

The leading business publication in Russia of the Vedomosti newspaper has been “selling” for several years - and today it suddenly turned out that the publication has already changed the owner. True, so far this is more formality.

• Today, the media manager Demyan Kudryavtsev, who bought the publication with his partners in 2015, unexpectedly announced the change of the owner of Vedomosti. In an interview with RTVI, Kudryavtsev said that his family no longer owns the newspaper - the publication belongs to the family of his partner Vladimir Voronov. The Bell Kudryavtsev said that the deal took place more than a year ago, but its details did not disclose the reason, saying only that it simplified the structure of property and relations between partners.
• Voronov and Martin Pompadur were partners of Kudryavtsev when buying Vedomosti from Western publishing houses in 2015. Kudryavtsev explained that they bought a debt with a discount to the previous owners (and Vedomosti had a debt to them in such a way), and Kudryavtsev himself received shares (after the transaction they were issued to his wife, since Kudryavtsev himself had Israeli citizenship and, according to the law, he cannot own more than 20% in the Russian media in the Russian media). “Now all [both debts and stocks] - in one place,” sums up Kudryavtsev, who remained in the Council of Directors of Vedomosti. Whether his personal financial obligations to his partners are preserved after the transaction, he did not disclose.
• Voronov, a British citizen, former president of News Media, launched in 1997 by him and Boris Berezovsky along with News Corporation Rupert Murdok (at first the company was called Logovaz News Corporation, managed our radio stations, Best FM and Ultra). He and Kudryavtsev - long -standing partners, re -registration of the publication from relatives of one to relatives of the other was rather a technical necessity dictated by personal circumstances, says a friend of both.
• The Vedomosti has not yet occurred, but Kudryavtsev does not hide that the buyer is looking for. Voronov and Pompadur, as businessmen, still consider all proposals to sell “Vedomosti” in order to “fix profits”, “negotiations go all the time, but not as actively as we would like,” he said to The Bell.
• Last spring, Kommersant wrote that Kudryavtsev was discussing the sale of Vedomosti for about the same amount in which he and partners cost the purchase of the publication in 2015 - about 15 million euros (taking into account the debt to the former owners).
• All this time, rumors circulated in the media market that Kudryavtsev was not the final or not the only owner of Vedomosti, but there was no official evidence of this. One of the possible “co -owners” was called businessman Dmitry Bosov, who was a partner of Rosneft (this gave the ground for additional speculation). Kudryavtsev himself confirmed that he borrowed from Bosov, but this happened after the purchase of Vedomosti, and the debt was repaid.

What am I to me?

The Vedomosti newspaper is one of the main sources of business news, so the news about the change of owner (in this case is more formal) should be followed intently.

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