But this time, not a column disappeared, but the new deputy chief editor Igor Ivanov. Only he announced on Facebook about his appointment, as he was removed from the weekend of the newspaper. He appeared there on August 6 and disappeared after a few days. At the same time, he did not declare care and apparently continues to work.
Why they removed his name and that they are trying to hide, no one explained. But Ivanov’s cursory glance leads to thought. According to operational data, at the end of last year, he took place suspects in the criminal case of the murder of the famous biologist Alexander Kagansky. The scientist in one underwear fell out of the window of Ivanov’s apartment in St. Petersburg. It fell out for a reason, but with a knife wound. SK then announced the detention of Ivanov as the main suspect under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code (“Murder”).
According to Ivanov, published in the media, the scientist allegedly grabbed the knife himself and, after a brawl, committed suicide. And then, as in a joke, with a knife wound jumped from the 14th floor. SK did not report the results of the investigation of the case, but Ivanov was released for some reason.
Surprisingly, earlier Ivanov was not seen in serious business media, in recent years he worked as a PR man. About yourself Writesthat in his youth he “speculated on vodka coupons, traded erotic magazines at stations, played cards for money.”
For what merits he was taken to a high position in the “Vedomosti”, remains only to guess. It would be unlikely to be possible with the last editors of the eminent newspaper. The last was Andrei Shmarov – a graduate of Moscow State University, an economist, an intellectual from the Soviet Research Institute.
On the other hand, provocations and scandals can be a conscious strategy of the new editor -in -chief of Vedomosti Irina Kazmina. She herself is known to lovers of popular literature under the name of Mokrousov as the author of the book with the navalnist title “Friends of Putin: the new business elite of Russia”. If you believe the description of the book, in it the author tells the story of the formation in Russia of the Putin oligarchy.
In July, Kazmin-Mokrousova raised the Vedomosti citation index by publishing a column of arrested journalist Ivan Safronov “spies from these people”. The heading of the material refers to the article “Kommersant” two years ago to make the speakers from these people, because of which the newspaper policy department quit. This similarity of the headlines clearly hints at the intentional provocation.
An interesting fact: the co -authors of the article in Kommersant were Ivan Safronov and his friend Maxim Ivanov. According to sources, this Ivanov also came to the view of the law enforcement agencies. In Vedomosti, he distinguished himself by the publication of a copy of the decision to attract Safronov to the accused in the case of the Stateizer. Because of what, then, the lawyer of the ex-journalist also started a case. Symptomatic that Maxim Ivanov has recently been indicated by the editor of the Politics and Society Department in the weekend of the newspaper. The editorial policy of the new team “Vedomosti” gains outlines.
The scandal with the column in July turned out to be loud. But August is already needed and we need new scandalous reasons. Perhaps it was for these purposes that they took the new deputy chief credit with an ambiguous reputation.
However, even scandals do not save the publication from a decrease in reading interest. According to the independent meter Similarweb, the publication loses Audience. In July, they fell by 12%. And compared with April, when the Shmarov team was still working, a decrease by almost a quarter. The competing publication “Kommersant” in the audience is already 3.5 times more than Vedomosti. It remains only to guess why the shareholder suffers this.
“ВЧК ОГПУ”