"Open Media": the new owner of Vedomosti suggested the editorial office until the end of the day to nominate his candidate for the position of editor -in -chief

The new owner of Vedomosti, Ivan Eremin, suggested that the editorial staff be nominated his candidate to the post of chief editor of the publication. This was told by Open Media several newspaper journalists. Eremin promised that the approved candidacy would be considered on the Council of Directors, which is now only being formed.

According to the publication, according to the Charter of “Business News Media”, publishing “Vedomosti”, the editorial office has the right to nominate its candidacy for the position of chief editor, but the order proposed by Yeremin does not correspond to what is described in the charter. In particular, the charter says that the counting of the candidate from the editorial office should deal with the accounting commission, describes the procedure for its formation, the procedure for counting votes. Journalists were offered to write the name of the candidate for e-mail. Who will count the voices is not specified.

“He asked us to accelerate. We accelerated. According to the charter of Vedomosti, the editors have the right to nominate its candidate to submit to his board of directors. It’s just in the current conditions that is possible. We find ourselves in such a situation for the second time. The first time was three years ago when Tanya Lysova left. But then everything was simple: we gathered in a News Rome and did everything. Now we are all on the remote, so we are going to vote by e-mail. I have come to the editorial office now. We have a vote now, and in the evening we will announce the results. I would very much like to listen to the editorial office and appoint our candidate, ”said Dmitry Simakov, the new owner of the publication, said the editorial office in a conversation with The Insider Vedomosti, that he did not intend to dismiss the acting chief editor of the publication Andrei Shmarov.

Earlier, Vedomosti belonged to Arkan Investment Demyan Kudryavtsev, Vladimir Voronov and Martin Pompadur. In March, it became known that they had previously agreed on the sale of the publication to Zyatkov and the managing director of Arbat Capital to Alexei Golubovich. However, Golubovich left the transaction. After that, Andrei Shmarov, who was impudently acting as the chief editor of the publication, was impudently acting. Journalists of the Vedomosti newspaper released an editorial column in which their actions criticized. The Insider gave the editorial office a whole statement .

In particular, Shmarov introduced in the publication a ban on the publication of the Levada Center polls and any criticism of the resetting of Putin’s presidential terms. As the sources said inside the newspaper, Shmarov received the corresponding order in the presidential administration.

Shmarov also deleted a column dedicated to the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin from the Vedomosti website, and also rewrote the title on the sale of Venezuelan assets of Rosneft to the opposite in terms of meaning. In addition, The Bell, “Medusa”, Forbes and “Vedomosti” in a large joint investigation found that not only Demyan Kudryavtsev, but also people representing the interests of the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin for a long time, were selected for “Vedomosti”.