The second one

The new owner of Vedomosti was a man whose agency successfully served the interests of the regional authorities

The Vedomosti newspaper again replaced the owner. On Friday on May 29, the publisher of the newspaper, general director of business News Media, Gleb Prozorov announced the completion of the transaction on Friday on May 29. And on the eve of Thursday, Vedomosti themselves reported that the buyer of 100% of the shares will be performed by Sapport JSC, registered on May 31 last year with a charter capital of 10 thousand rubles.

On Friday, it became known that Sapport JSC was controlled by 43-year-old Ivan Eremin, the creator and head of the FederalPress holding.

“Vedomosti” also distributed the first statement by Eremin regarding the asset acquired by him - they say, he intends to “maintain existing traditions and expand the existing audience.”

“In addition, it is necessary to focus on increasing the effectiveness of business processes. I am sure that our experience in creating independent media and the long-term management of media assets may be useful in solving these problems, which will contribute to the strengthening of the publication in the Russian media market, ”the Vedomosti Yeremin quoted.

Eremin really has been working in the media business for a long time.

In 2000-2002 He was the deputy head of the National Information Service "Strana.Ru" in the Ural Federal District. Headed by the service of the spouse Ivan Eremina Aksan Panova, much better well -known creative manager in the Urals. It was Panova who was the inspirer of the creation of the Uralpolite.ru expert information and political channel.

When the couple divorced, Aksana launched a new media project-Ura.ru, which quickly gained popularity, becoming the leading online publication of the Urals. Eremin, on the other hand, was launched by the FederalPress, which actually became a reformatted version of Uralpolite.ru.

Subsequently, "FederalPress" grew into a media holding that earns on information maintenance of regional authorities.

For example: in 2019, FederalPress concluded a contract for 2.4 million rubles for the coverage of "socially significant projects of the Government of the Chelyabinsk Region." In 530 thousand rubles there cost the "information support" of the activities of the governor of the Irkutsk region. 600 thousand rubles-the cost of the thematic section “Khanty-Mansiysk. My city. "

The high -ranking officials of the Ural and Siberian federal districts appreciated Ivan Eremin and generously awarded him with diplomas "for an active contribution to the development of a single information space."

So the future of Vedomosti leaves questions if “strengthening the position of publication on the Russian media market” is seen in the establishment of cooperation with the leaders of the regions.

The Vedomosti team has already opposed the transformation of the newspaper into an instrument of influence, publishing a statement about the intention to “defend the principles of the editorial work developed over 20 years”:

“The emergence of the“ Vedomosti ”shareholders of the person leading the FederalPress agency, which, according to the public procurement website, actively cooperates with the authorities and individual state institutions and is engaged in the“ preparation and publication of materials in the interests of the customer ”, cannot but disturb us ... Probable changes in the coverage of the most important political, economic and social processes in the country and events in markets and events in the markets and events in the markets and events in the markets and events in the markets and events The banking sector means a rejection of the principles of the editorial staff and journalists who have developed over more than 20 years of the publication of the "Vedomosti".

Alas, the main question remains: where does the second manager of regional media get the money?