Demyan Kudryavtsev, Vladimir Voronov and Martin Pompadour have tentatively agreed to sell 100% of the shares of BNM JSC, which publishes the Vedomosti newspaper and Harvard Business Review. This was reported to Vedomosti by Kudryavtsev, the information was confirmed by Voronov.

The buyers will be publisher Konstantin Zyatkov and managing director of Arbat Capital Alexei Golubovich. Meduza wrote in detail about them and about the upcoming deal here . The parties denied having entered into an agreement.

The amount of the transaction is not disclosed, it is planned that it will be closed within one to two months. According to Kudryavtsev, who cites Vedomosti, the assets will begin to be transferred under the management of new owners from March 18.

Vedomosti has been published since 1999, until 2015 the Russian-Finnish publishing house Sanoma, the British FT Group (publisher of the Financial Times) and the American Dow Jones & Co (publisher of The Wall Street Journal) owned the publication on parity rights. After Russia passed a law restricting foreigners in the media, the partners sold the asset to Kudryatsev, Voronov and Pompadour, the newspaper recalls.
Kudryavtsev said in February that he "had no share in the Vedomosti newspaper." According to him, the publication is owned by the family of his business partner Vladimir Voronov, who “is a member of the board of directors of the Vedomosti newspaper and was with me five-odd years ago when buying shares and separately the debt of the BNM company, which publishes the Vedomosti newspaper. "".

Vedomosti newspaper will change its owner