Media manager Derck Sauer died

Media manager Derck Sauer died. This is reported by The Moscow Times and Het Parool , citing a family statement.

The 72-year-old Sauer died from the consequences of the injury, which he received during the control of a sailing boat a month ago.

Derk Sauer is a media manager, journalist, publisher and entrepreneur from the Netherlands who has been working on the Russian media market for many years. In 1989, he became one of the first foreign media managers to work in the USSR.

In 1992, he founded the Independent Media project, which became one of the largest publishing houses in the Russian Federation and included Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Esquire and Harper's Bazaar. In 1999, IM founded the Vedomosti business newspaper.

In 2012-2015, Sauer headed the RBC media holding. Since 2017, the newspaper The Moscow Times ruled.

After the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the media manager played a key role in the restart of the “rain” from the Netherlands, the newspaper writes .