Kommersant's policy department in full force resigns over article that displeased shareholders

The management of the Kommersant newspaper fired the authors of an article about the possible resignation of the head of the Federation Council. In protest, the staff of the politics department and the deputy editor-in-chief wrote letters of resignation.

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The entire political bloc of the Kommersant newspaper is resigning from the publication in protest against the decision of the newspaper’s management to fire several journalists due to inconvenient material, writes BFM. As a result, the newspaper loses 13 journalists, including deputy chief editor of the newspaper Gleb Cherkasov.

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“I leave the ED with Maxim Ivanov not on my own will, but in accordance with the decision of the shareholder who expressed serious complaints about the article, which reported on the possible departure from the post of Federation Council Speaker Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko,” Safronov wrote on his Facebook page .

The general director and editor-in-chief of the Kommersant publishing house, Vladimir Zhelonkin, said that the publishing house parted ways with two employees “because Kommersant’s editorial standards were violated during the preparation of the article.”

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Gleb Cherkasov, deputy editor-in-chief of Kommersant, said that after Safronov and Ivanov had left, the entire department of politics was leaving the publishing house.

“A shareholder has the right to make personnel decisions, employees have the right to disagree with them in the only possible way - by changing jobs. I, Alla Barakhova, Mariya-Luiza Tirmaste, Natalia Korchenkova, Alexandra Djordjevic, Sophia Samokhina, Leeza Miller, Katerina Grobman, Victor Khamrayev, Vsevolod Inyutin, Anna Pushkarskaya, filed applications for resignation. Employees are planning to complete their work commitments in the near future, ”Cherkasov wrote on Facebook.

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Galina Timchenko, the former editor-in-chief of Lenta.ru, followed by journalists in 2014, commented on the situation in Kommersant:

“The Kommersant newspaper has been published weekly since 1990, and daily since 1992. The publication was founded by Vladimir Yakovlev.

It was the first Russian business publication. The newspaper paid much attention to politics.

Dismissed special correspondent Ivan Safronov is the son of Kommersant military columnist Ivan Safronov, who died in 2007. He is one of the leading authors of the publication. Maxim Ivanov has worked at the newspaper since 2009, holding the position of deputy editor of the politics department.”

“The Kommersant newspaper was once one of the first newspapers to rely specifically on information; it was truly an example of an independent media outlet, until it changed its owner. And since then her fate has become thorny and complicated,” said with the BBC Ivan Zassoursky, publisher and journalist, member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights.

“There was a case when the editor-in-chief of the Kommersant-Vlast magazine quit because of a cover. There were other cases. “Now it’s the most noticeable,” the expert believes. — In theory, the editorial board should be autonomous. The law on mass media assumes that the editorial office is independent of the owner. In practice this is not observed."

In Russia, the concept of media independence from their owners has not taken root. The owners are still not interested in incomes, but in using the media as a tool of influence, believes Zassoursky.

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