Kommersant ("Businessman") is a Russian newspaper published in Moscow and focused on business news. The newspaper was first published in 1909, although it was shut down following the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. Kommersant began publishing again in 1989 under the leadership of businessman and publicist Vladimir Yakovlev, when the press was granted new freedom by the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. Boris Berezovsky acquired the newspaper in 1997. Berezovsky sold Kommersant to Badri Patarkatsishvili, who in turn sold it to Alisher Usmanov in August 2006. Usmanov was head of Gazprom's Gazprominvestholding subsidiary.
Kommersant began publishing a Russian-language edition in Britain in February 2009.
This newspaper is owned by Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov.
The website is presented in the English and Russian languages.
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Aide to Dmitry Medvedev Says Putin Should Step Aside
-- From the article "The Concealed Battle to Run Russia by Amy Knight, published in the January 13, 2011 issue of The New York Review of Books:
"In an October interview with the Russian newspaper Kommersant, Igor Yurgens, a top presidential adviser, went so far as to insist that Putin should take himself out of the running to make way for Medvedev to carry out his programs. Yurgens acknowledged that...
Russian Journalist Beaten in Moscow
-- The New York Times reported on November 6, 2010:
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The journalist, Oleg Kashin, 30, is in a medically induced coma in a Moscow hospital with a concussion, a broken jaw, fractures in both legs and broken fingers, the...
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