Kommersant

Kommersant (Russian: Коммерса́нтъ, IPA: [kəmʲɪrˈsant], The Businessman, often shortened to Ъ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business. It is a leading liberal business broadsheet.[1] The TNS Media and NRS Russia certified July 2013 circulation of the daily was 120,000–130,000.[2]

Kommersant
Front page on 27 December 2010
TypeDaily newspaper
Owner(s)Alisher Usmanov
Founded1989 (1989)
LanguageRussian
HeadquartersMoscow
Circulation120,000–130,000 (July 2013)
Websitewww.kommersant.ru

History

In 1989, with the onset of press freedom in Russia, Kommersant was founded under the ownership of businessman and publicist Vladimir Yakovlev.[3] 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 a pre-Soviet newspaper of the same name active between 1909 and 1917. 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".

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.[4]

See also

References
  1. "The press in Russia". BBC News. 16 May 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  2. "Kommersant Website; (Russian)". 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  3. "Kommersant; Presseurop (English)". Presseurop. 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  4. "Alfa-d Up". Kommersant. Moscow. 31 January 2005. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
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