Type | Daily newspaper |
---|---|
Owner(s) | Alisher Usmanov |
Founder(s) | Vladimir Yakovlev |
Editor-in-chief | Mikhail Loukin |
Founded | 1989 |
Language | Russian |
Headquarters | Moscow |
Circulation | 120,000–130,000 (July 2013) |
ISSN | 1561-347X (print) 1563-6380 (web) |
OCLC number | 244126120 |
Website | www |
Kommersant (Russian : Коммерсантъ, IPA: [kəmʲɪrˈsant] , The Businessman or Commerce Man, often shortened to Ъ ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business. The TNS Media and NRS Russia certified July 2013 circulation of the daily was 120,000–130,000. [1]
It is widely considered to be one of Russia's three main business dailies (together with Vedomosti and RBK Daily ). [2]
The original Kommersant newspaper was established in Moscow in 1909, but was shut down by the Bolsheviks following the October Revolution in 1917. [3]
In 1989, with the onset of press freedom in Russia, Kommersant was relaunched under the ownership of businessman and publicist Vladimir Yakovlev. [4] [5] The first issue was released in January 1990. [6] It was modeled after Western business journalism. [5]
The newspaper's title is spelled in Russian with a terminal hard sign (ъ) – a letter that is silent at the end of a word in modern Russian, and was thus largely abolished by the post-revolution Russian spelling reform, in reference to the original Kommersant. [6] This is played up in the Kommersant logo, which features a script hard sign at the end of somewhat more formal font. The newspaper also refers to itself or its redaction as "Ъ".
Founded as a weekly newspaper, it became popular among business and political elites. [6] It then became a daily newspaper in 1992. [6] [7] It was owned by the businessman Boris Berezovsky from 1999 until 2006, when he sold it to Badri Patarkatsishvili. [5] [7] In September 2006, it was sold to Alisher Usmanov. [7]
In January 2005, Kommersant published a protest at a court ruling ordering it to publish a denial of a story about a crisis at Alfa-Bank. [8] In 2008, BBC News named Kommersant one of Russia's leading liberal business broadsheets. [9]
It has been argued that Kommersant strategically uses an ironic tone in its reporting, expressed in "creative neologisms, wordplay, metaphors, and legally imposed euphemisms," allowing it to maintain a degree of independence in periods of severe state censorship. [10]
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