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Kommersant (Cyrillic: Коммерса́нтъ) (which literally translates as "The Businessman") is a commerce-oriented newspaper published in Russia. As of 2005, the circulation was 131,000. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...
The newspaper was initially published in 1909, and it was closed down following the Bolshevik seizure of power and the introduction of censorship in 1919. Bolshevik Party Meeting. ...
In 1990, with the onset of press freedom in Russia, Kommersant was re-established under the ownership of businessman and publicist Vladimir Yakovlev. Yakovlev (Яковлев) or Yakovleva (feminine) is a popular Russian surname which may refer to the following people: Alexander Yakovlev, a former United Nations official Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1923–2005), a Soviet politician credited with promoting glasnost Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906–1989), a Russian aeronautical engineer and airplane designer Yakovlev Design Bureau...
To make the point that the publication had outlasted the Soviet regime, "Kommersant" is spelled in Russian with a terminal hard sign (ъ) -- a diacritical mark that was abolished by the post-revolution Russian spelling reform. This is played up in the Kommersant logo, which features a script hard sign at the end of somewhat more formal font. The letter (Ъ, ÑŠ) of the Cyrillic alphabet is known as the hard sign (твёрдый знак ) in the modern Russian alphabet and as er golyam (ер голÑм, big yer) in the Bulgarian alphabet. ...
The Old Russian language adopted the Cyrillic alphabet, approximately during the tenth century and at about the same time as the introduction of Eastern Christianity into the territories inhabited by the Eastern Slavs. ...
In 1997, autos-to-Aeroflot mogul Boris Berezovsky – a member of the former President Boris Yeltsin's 'family'[1] – bought the Kommersant publishing house, which included Kommersant-daily, two serious weekly magazines (the political Kommersant-vlast (literally 'Power') and the financial Kommersant-dengi ('Money') – as well as entertainment magazines Domovoi and Avtopilot and Molotok, a teen magazine, whch later incurred the authorities' wrath[2] Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ...
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (БориÌÑ ÐбраÌмович БерезоÌвÑкий) a. ...
In August 2006, Patarkatsishvili sold his 100% stake in the Kommersant publishing house to Alisher Usmanov[3], head of Gazprom's Gazprominvestholding subsidiary. Uzbekhistan-born Usmanov, thought to to have close ties with the Kremlin, had paid about $200 million for the publishing house[4] – and splashed out a further $30 million in November 2006 buying the Gazeta.ru web news portal from Sekret Firmy Publishing.[5] For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
Badri Patarkatsishvili (b. ...
After clashing with Usmanov, Kommersant editor-in-chief Vladislav Borodulin quit.[6] "[Borodulin’s] decision to resign wasn't forced, but evidently they expressed different views on how the publishing house should be developed," said the group's commercial director. Andrei Vasilyev,appointed for a second stint at the helm of the daily – after a long run from 1999 to 2005 – said Kommersant-daily had no intention of following any imposed policy, and added that the edition would carry articles that might not please the owner.[7][8]
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Ivan Safronov Ivan Ivanovich Safronov (Russian: ) (1955 - March 2, 2007) was a Russian journalist and columnist who covered military affairs for the daily newspaper Kommersant and died after falling from the fifth floor of the Moscow building where he lived. ...
External links - KommersantЪ, English version online
- BBC news reporting on Kommersant's protest
- Photo gallery celebrating Kommersant's 15th anniversary
- Story in the St. Petersburg Times about the sale of Kommersant
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