RBC TV channel owner. Why RBC leaves the entire top of the editorial leadership. Another version that refutes previous assumptions

CEO of RBC
Member of the Board of Directors of RBC

Nikolai Molibog has been CEO of RBC since January 2014. From August 2013 until his appointment as CEO of the company, he was RBC's First Deputy CEO. From 2000 to 2003, Nikolai worked as a manager of a network of regional enterprises of CJSC Kommersant. Publishing House". From 2003 to 2004, he held the position of Deputy Managing Director of the socio-political newspaper Gazeta. Since 2004, Nikolai has worked for the Afisha company, where he rose from the director of distribution and regional development to the general director of the Afisha publishing house. From July 2010 to May 2013 he was the General Director of the united company Afisha-Rambler. In 2011, he was included in the rating of young Russian media managers by Odgers Berndtson in the category "Internet projects" with the highest rating (AA). In 2013, he entered the top three leaders of the CIS in the field of media business according to the Association of Managers of Russia. Nikolai graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Novosibirsk Technical University of Communications and Informatics.

First Deputy CEO of RBC

Ekaterina Kruglova has been Deputy CEO of RBC since December 2013. Ekaterina began her career in the media business as an analyst in the development directorate of NTV-Plus in 2002. In 2003, she moved to the Afisha company as an analyst in the business analysis department. In the period from 2005 to 2010, she held the positions of director of business analysis and deputy general director of the Afisha company. After the merger of Afisha and Rambler in 2010, she was appointed to the position of Executive Director of the merged company, where she worked until May 2013. Ekaterina graduated from the Faculty of Sociology of the Moscow Pedagogical State University, and also received an MBA from the Mirbis Moscow Higher School of Economics.

Deputy General Director of RBC

Joined the RBC team in May 2014, first served as Director for Economics and Finance of RU-CENTER Group, since December 2014 - CFO of RBC Group. In his current position, he is responsible for the operational efficiency of RBC's digital products.
In 2003, he joined RIA Novosti, where he held various positions in the financial unit. From September 2011 to March 2014, Igor was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of RIA Novosti for Development. In 2005, Igor successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and was awarded the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 2011 he received a diploma from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ACCA DipIFR.

Corporate Commercial Director of RBC

General Director of "Media Mir"
RBC Deputy CEO for Technology

Since September 2013, Alexander Kononenko has been CEO of Media Mir LLC (part of the RBC Group and unites non-business Internet projects), and is RBC's Deputy CEO for Technology. Alexander has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Previously, from May 2008 to March 2010, he held the position of Technical Director of Severen Telecom. In the period from April 2010 to May 2011, he was the technical director of the RBC Hosting Center, after which he moved to the position of technical director in the combined company Afisha-Rambler. From May 2013 until joining RBC, he held the position of CEO for Technology at Afisha-Rambler-SUP. Alexander graduated from the Faculty of Informatics and Telecommunications of the Volga University. V.N. Tatishchev.

RBC editor-in-chief Elizaveta Osetinskaya, RBC website editor-in-chief Roman Badanin, and RBC newspaper editor-in-chief Maxim Solius left the holding by agreement of the parties, the company said. The last working day for all three is Friday, May 13, the report said.

Irina Malkova will temporarily manage the united editorial office, now Badanin's deputy. Formally, she will not be appointed to the position of acting editor-in-chief, said RBC CEO Nikolai Molibog. Malkova wrote on Facebook that she would soon leave RBC and “works approximately until June 30.” Valery Igumenov, editor-in-chief of the RBC magazine, also wrote on Facebook that he remains in his post at RBC "for a short time."

Solus later wrote on Facebook that he would not reveal the specific reasons for his departure. But he is deeply convinced that his dismissal is connected with the editorial policy of RBC and with the fact that due to this editorial policy, the owner of the holding, Mikhail Prokhorov, had problems. “This policy and, in particular, my tenure as editor-in-chief of the RBC newspaper reduces the chances of a successful outcome of the “dispute of business entities” for Prokhorov’s entire business,” Solius believes.

Changeover in editors RBC was the decision of the management of the RBC holding, Molibog confirmed to Vedomosti. He declined any other comments on the matter. “Recently, we have been talking a lot about how to further develop RBC, and in these conversations we could not reach a consensus on some important issues, so we decided to part ways. I want to thank Elizaveta, Roman and Maxim for their work and for their contribution to the development of the company,” RBC said in an official statement on his behalf.

According to a Vedomosti source in RBC, the decision was first made to leave Solus, Osetinskaya and Badanin left out of solidarity with him. "New personnel appointments in the structure of RBC's media projects will be announced later," the company said.

In addition, several editors of the holding are leaving, including Yulia Yarosh and Petr Mironenko. Both reported in their Facebook that work in the company until June 30. “I am staying for a transition period to transfer cases,” Yarosh wrote. A similar message was made by Polina Rusyaeva-Tsybizova, editor of the Technology and Media department of RBC, Alexei Yablokov, deputy editor-in-chief of RBC magazine, Elena Myazina, deputy editor-in-chief for special projects, and RBC special correspondent Svetlana Reiter. The fact that they work at RBC until June 30 was announced by Elena Tofanyuk, head of the Banking and Finance department, and Anfisa Voronina, deputy editor-in-chief of RBC magazine.

In April, it became known that Osetinskaya was leaving to study in the United States. At first, she announced to the team that she would cease to perform duties from August, but a week later she announced that this would happen in May. At the same time, it was announced that the position would remain with her.

In mid-April, the police, the FSB and the Federal Tax Service conducted searches and seized documents at the head office of Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim group and its controlled companies (but not at RBC) in connection with "possible tax evasion." Later, a representative of the FSB said that the searches were carried out as part of a criminal case against the Tavrichesky bank, whose sanator is the IFC bank (47% - at Prokhorov's). Why, in the framework of the Tauride case, companies not connected with the financial market were searched, he did not explain.

Over the past few months, the pressure on RBC has increased. Sources in the holding told Vedomosti that employees of the presidential and government administrations were trying to get the company's management and its shareholder Mikhail Prokhorov to change their editorial policy. First of all, officials were not satisfied with RBC's investigations into people close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in particular, Putin's alleged daughter Ekaterina Tikhonova. Two interlocutors close to RBC say that it was Solus who was the first to be dismissed, since officials are used to reading a paper newspaper, and not the RBC website, where the materials originally appeared.

Following searches at several of Prokhorov's companies, the police opened a criminal case of fraud related to RBC. The case was opened at the end of April by the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow “on the fact of the theft of 25% of the shares” of the Byte-telecom data center, a former subsidiary of RBC. Allegedly, the stolen stake belonged in equal shares to Alexander Panov and Yaroslav Koretsky (the rest of the shares were controlled by RBC). In September 2014, the holding sold the shares of Byte Telecom. Panov considers this sale fictitious, as a result of which, he assures, minority shareholders lost their shares.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said today that the departure of the RBC leadership is not related to pressure from the authorities. The Kremlin, he said, did not know in advance about these resignations. At the end of April, Peskov already said that the authorities did not interfere in the politics of the media. “These reports are not true. The Kremlin never interferes in editorial policy, much less interferes with property rights,” a Kremlin spokesman told TASS.

RBC(from "RosBusinessConsulting" listen)) is a Russian media holding, including a TV channel of the same name, a news agency, a newspaper and a magazine. Holds industry conferences, business regattas and awards. It is the largest non-state media holding in Russia. The headquarters is located in Moscow.

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Over its more than twenty-year history, RBC has grown from a small news agency into a diversified company operating in the IT, television and press segments.

Since the early 2000s, the RBC website has been one of the most visited information resources on the Russian Internet (and, according to many competitors, also one of the leaders in “purchased traffic”). For several years in a row, the company's declared sales of online advertising were several times higher than the sales of other major advertising platforms, including Internet giants like Yandex, Mail.ru, Rambler and others, it was noted in an investigation by SmartMoney magazine published in 2006.

In 2002, RBC was the first among media holdings to place its shares on Russian stock exchanges. By 2008, their price had grown more than tenfold, the company itself was estimated by its management at one and a half billion dollars.

Change of ownership

In July 2009, RBC shareholders agreed with Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim group to purchase the last additional issue of 51% of the company's shares for $80 million, half of which will go to cover debts. The issue of the withdrawal of assets is considered in court. The total debt of RBC at the end of August 2009 was estimated by the company's creditors at $207 million. In June 2010, the deal was completed: ONEXIM bought out an additional issue of RBC TV Moscow, which controls most of RBC's assets, for $80 million.

Further history (2010-2015)

At the end of 2013, after unsuccessful negotiations on the purchase of the Russian edition of Forbes, a number of its employees moved to RBC: editor-in-chief Elizaveta Osetinskaya, her deputy Valery Igumenov (headed RBC magazine), editor Elena Tofanyuk, columnist Irina Malkova and several correspondents, in order to improve The quality of materials was bought up by employees of other publications. Elizaveta Osetinskaya, as the editor-in-chief of RBC, took up the unification of the editorial offices of the magazine, website, newspaper and TV channel. Later, cost optimization began, during which the staff was reduced from 2000 to 1100 employees, non-core assets were sold (the publishing house Salon-Press, which produced glossy magazines).

By 2014, the RBC website became one of the leaders in citation according to Medialogy (in the spring its audience reached 20 million unique visitors per month), the RBC newspaper in September 2015 became the leader in terms of audience in the segment of daily business publications.

By 2015, the total sales of the holding reached a little more than five billion rubles, the EBITDA of the group of companies reached 426 million rubles. Nevertheless, the group's net loss amounted to 1.58 billion rubles, long-term debt rose to 17 billion rubles ($263 million).

Dismissal of chief editors

In April 2016, a number of media outlets linked searches in the office of the Onexim group and the vacation of the editor-in-chief of the RBC holding, Elizaveta Osetinskaya, with pressure from the Kremlin on Mikhail Prokhorov due to publications about the alleged daughter and son-in-law of Vladimir Putin Ekaterina Tikhonova and Kirill Shamalov, as well as about Panamanian archive. The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the authorities are not trying to put pressure on the editorial policy of the holding.

On May 11, it became known about the investigation of the fraud case at RBC, the defendants of which could be the holding's CEO Nikolai Molibog and a group of his subordinates.

On May 13, 2016, the holding lost its editorial management: Maxim Solius, editor-in-chief of the RBC newspaper, was fired, and by agreement of the parties, the holding's editor-in-chief Elizaveta Osetinskaya and the news agency's editor-in-chief Roman Badanin resigned. Nikolai Molibog explained the dismissals as "disagreements on some important issues." Journalists and editors of RBC were obliged to coordinate the texts before publication with the general director of the holding. Following the leaders, many editors and journalists planned to leave the publication; others decided to work "until the first note taken" .

Commenting on the dismissals, Alexei Volin, Deputy Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications, said that “the owner of RBC had every reason to be dissatisfied ... [since] his managers generated losses, not profits” and that “it’s completely pointless to look for politics where there is purely economics” . Osetinskaya denied this version, noting: Chief editors are not engaged in business, they manage the editorial office .

New leadership

On July 7, the Vedomosti newspaper, citing an internal letter, announced the appointment of Elizaveta Golikova and Igor Trosnikov as "heads of the joint editorial office", with a start date of July 14 indicated. Both new leaders have worked as editors of the newspaper Kommersant in the past, and until recently worked for the state news agency TASS.

On the evening of July 7, 2016, Elizaveta Golikova and Igor Trosnikov, together with Nikolai Molibog, met with the editors of the publication and the website to discuss the future information policy of the holding. The text transcript of the meeting was published on the website of the Meduza online publication, which received an audio recording from one of the participants in the meeting.

During the conversation, the new leaders announced the presence of certain restrictions, embodied in double solid, an example of the intersection of which Molibog and Trosnikov called RBC's coverage of the Panama Archive against the backdrop of Vedomosti and Kommersant. Also, RBC journalists were urged not to apply for resignation, because this wrong attitude neither to what you have done, nor to the company, nor to the shareholders. When asked about the possibility of publishing materials about Ekaterina Tikhonova in the future, Trosnikov refused to answer. Top managers called their main goal the preservation of indicators, respect for the audience, and unlocking potential.

In early July, the RBC magazine ceased to be part of the holding's unified editorial office, coming under the control of Molibog. The staff of the media and telecom department of the united editorial office moved to the magazine in its entirety. The editor-in-chief of the journal asked not to associate the rearrangements with the change of editorial board.

From May to July 2016, 20 journalists left the holding, including eight out of 10 deputy chief editors, four out of 12 heads of areas, services and department editors, one out of four special correspondents. The departments of politics, industry and energy resources, the Internet edition service, in turn, no one left. On August 18, Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Head of the Internet Edition Service Vladimir Motorin announced his resignation. In August-October 2016, most of the journalists who left RBC's print media began working on the Dozhd TV channel, which led to a split within its editorial office.

Under the new leadership, RBC began to publish fewer investigations; there were no longer any own texts about the Putin family. In terms of audience size, the holding competed with the largest state-owned media (in March 2017, the websites of RBC and RIA Novosti were visited by 26.5 and 27.4 million people) [ ] . The media reported dissatisfaction with the editorial policy of the publication on the eve of the presidential elections in the presidential administration, in particular - with Alexei Gromov).

New owner (2017 - present)

According to the BBC Russian Service, the decision to sell the holding to Prokhorov was made under pressure from the presidential administration. Also, according to media reports, Beryozkin was dissatisfied with the excessive politicization of his new asset, planning to concentrate his work on covering business processes.

Mission

media

The RBC media holding includes the Rosbusinessconsulting information agency, an Internet news portal, the business analytical portal Quote.rbc.ru, since 2003 the publication of the daily analytical newspaper RBC began (until 2014 - RBC daily); published both in printed and online versions) and the monthly business magazine "RBC", the business television channel "RBC-TV" (created in 2003), the high-tech magazine "CNews", a project for the sale of ready-made marketing information " RBC. Market research”, the automotive portal “Autonews.ru”, the portal about alcoholic beverages “Drinktime.rbc.ru” and a number of other online business, information, service and entertainment publications.

At the beginning of October 2007, RBC. Information Systems bought 89.99% of the shares of the Our Money magazine from KIT Finance and 100% of the shares of the weekly newspaper M² - Square Meter from ID Rodionov.

In December 2014, the media holding entered the media monitoring and analytics market by purchasing the specialized Internet service Public.ru.

IT

Another major area of ​​RBC's activity is domain registration and hosting, which open up wide opportunities for customers to do business on the Internet.

Within the framework of the holding, a division "RBC-soft" was created, specializing in the development of software (SW). In 2007, it was transformed into the Armada company.

The RBC group of companies includes the largest community of hosting providers and domain name registrars in Russia and Eastern Europe, Ru-Center Group. Currently, "Ru-Center Group" includes seven key operating companies: registrars "R01", "

Grigory Berezkin bought a controlling stake in the RBC media holding from Mikhail Prokhorov, a spokesman for the ESN Berezkin group said. The deal is closed, ESN structures have acquired 65% of the shares of the media holding, he specified.

Berezkin's representative did not disclose the financial parameters of the deal.

RBC quotes the statement of the holding's CEO Nikolai Molibog: “Today we see RBC's goal not only to strengthen the holding's leading position, but also to take on the challenges facing the media and IT industries in the advent of the era of the digital economy. We are confident that relations with the ESN group, built on mutual respect, will allow us to jointly realize these opportunities to the fullest.”

“In my opinion, RBC is now one of the leading media holdings in Russia, and we see great potential for its development in various business areas,” Berezkin is quoted in the message as saying.

Prokhorov has owned a controlling stake in RBC since July 2010, now the structures of his managing company Onexim own 61.6% of the shares of the media holding. About 35% of the shares are traded on the Moscow Exchange, the rest - with minority shareholders. At the end of May, the Federal Antimonopoly Service granted the request of Sotol Project JSC (this company is part of the Berezkin ESN group) to acquire a 65.4% stake in RBC.

RBC includes a TV channel of the same name, a news site, a newspaper, a magazine, and an online high-tech publication, CNews. The group also has a business of Internet hosting and domain registration, conferences, etc.

RBC's revenue in 2016 increased by 9.7% to RUB 5.6 billion, EBITDA – by 16% to RUB 556 million. Most of the holding's revenue comes from media assets.

The total audience of RBC projects is 25 million people a month, the holding indicates with reference to Mediascope data. Of these, 17 million people watch the RBC channel on average per month, 10 million people read the RBC website, and 2 million people read the newspaper and magazine of the same name.

The fact that Berezkin agreed in principle to buy RBC became known in mid-April. The businessman expected that the deal would be signed before the May holidays, two of his acquaintances told Vedomosti at the time. But in the end, the signing was delayed.

By the end of April, the parties agreed on the financial parameters of the deal, including the issue of debt, according to two Vedomosti interlocutors close to both sides of the negotiations. The media holding has a large debt - at the end of 2016 it amounted to 14.9 billion rubles. The lion's share of this amount is RBC's debt to Onexim. The signing dragged on, as the parties bargained to the last on issues related to who - the buyer or the seller - would, in particular, be financially responsible if Rosneft still manages to sue RBC 3.2 billion rubles. for damage to business reputation. The court in April denied compensation to the oil company, but " Rosneft filed an appeal against this decision.

According to two Vedomosti sources, the new owner does not plan to change the holding team. Back in April, Berezkin met with the general director of the holding, Nikolai Molibog, and suggested that he continue to lead RBC, an acquaintance of the businessman knows. The editorial team, run by Elizaveta Golikova and Igor Trosnikov, will also be offered to stay, two Vedomosti sources close to Berezkin know. Molibog, Golikova and Trosnikov declined to comment.

Prokhorov is being forced to sell RBC, said a Vedomosti interlocutor close to Onexim. An acquaintance of Berezkin, on the contrary, is sure that no one is forcing Prokhorov to sell RBC: the businessman himself understands how uncomfortable this asset has become for him.

The businessman was ready to leave the asset before - last spring, the heads of several media holdings said that they received offers to buy RBC, but then, according to two interlocutors of Vedomosti, Prokhorov intended to get a "good price" - at least $ 250 million. Even then VTB was ready to act as the organizer of the transaction - the group was looking for buyers, one of Vedomosti's interlocutors knows. But in April 2016, the FSB and the Federal Tax Service conducted searches and seized documents at the head office of Prokhorov's Onexim group and its controlled companies (but not at RBC) in connection with "possible tax evasion." Sources close to Prokhorov attributed the searches to the fact that officials are dissatisfied with the independence of the editorial policy of RBC publications and their investigations, including about the family of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian Railways, controls Rusenergoresurs (electricity supplier for Transneft). The businessman is also interested in the media business - in 2007, ESN bought a controlling stake in the publishing house (ID) Komsomolskaya Pravda. The ED does not disclose the current shareholder structure. The general director and co-owner of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Vladimir Sungorkin, said only that for him, "Berezkin is always a shareholder." A year ago, Vedomosti sources said that the main shareholder of the publishing house was Baltic Media Group (owned by the heirs of Oleg Rudnov), and Berezkin no longer manages this asset.

CEO of RBC Group of Companies

He has been CEO of RBC since January 2014. Member of the Board of Directors of PJSC RBC since January 2014. From August 2013 until his appointment as CEO of the company, he was RBC's First Deputy CEO.

From 2000 to 2003, he worked as a manager of a network of regional enterprises of CJSC Kommersant. Publishing House". From 2003 to 2004, he held the position of Deputy Managing Director of the socio-political newspaper Gazeta. Since 2004, he worked at the Afisha company, where he rose from the director of distribution and regional development to the general director of the Afisha publishing house. From July 2010 to May 2013 he was the General Director of the united company Afisha-Rambler. In 2011, he entered Odgers Berndtson's "Rating of Young Russian Media Managers" in the "Internet Projects" category with the highest rating (AA). In 2013, he entered the top three leaders of the CIS in the field of media business according to the Association of Managers of Russia. Included in the top ten managers in the Media Business category of the Top 1000 Russian Managers rating.

Graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Siberian Technical University of Communications and Informatics.

Ekaterina Kruglova

Deputy General Director of the RBC Group of Companies, General Director of the RU-CENTER Group of Companies

He has been Deputy CEO of RBC since December 2013. She began her career in the media business as an analyst in the development directorate of NTV-Plus in 2002. In 2003, she moved to the Afisha company as an analyst in the business analysis department. In the period from 2005 to 2010, she held the positions of director of business analysis and deputy general director of the Afisha company. After the merger of Afisha and Rambler in 2010, she was appointed to the position of Executive Director of the merged company, where she worked until May 2013.

Ekaterina graduated from the Faculty of Sociology of the Moscow Pedagogical State University, and also received an MBA from the Mirbis Moscow Higher School of Economics.

Igor Selivanov

Financial Director of the RBC Group of Companies

Financial Director of the RBC Group of Companies since December 2014. Since May 2014, Igor Selivanov has served as Director for Economics and Finance at RU-CENTER Group. In 2003, he joined RIA Novosti, where he held various positions in the financial unit. From September 2011 to March 2014, Igor was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of RIA Novosti for Development. In 2005, Igor was awarded the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 2011 he received the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ACCA DipIFR diploma. One of the top three CFOs in the Media Business category of the Top 1000 Russian Managers rating.

Julia Shulga

Deputy General Director of the RBC Group of Companies for Human Resources Management

Since September 2013, he has been RBC's Deputy CEO for Human Resources. He has been working in the IT and media industry for over 15 years. From the beginning of 2011 to July 2013, she implemented the HR strategy of the consolidated company Afisha-Rambler in the position of HR Director. Prior to this, for more than three years she determined the strategy for training and development of employees as the head of personnel training at Yandex. Included in the list of the best HR directors in the Media Business category of the Top 1000 Russian Managers.
She graduated from MTUCI with a degree in software and received a second higher education with a degree in organization management.

Timofey Shcherbakov

Legal Director of RBC Group of Companies, General Director of RBC TV Channel

Timofey Shcherbakov has served as Director of Legal Affairs for the RBC Group of Companies since December 2015. Timofey has over 15 years of legal experience in the media business. He worked in both government and commercial structures, including heading the legal departments of the Profmedia broadcasting corporation, the RIA Novosti media holding, and supervising the legal activities of the Russian Academy of Radio. He is an expert of working groups in executive and legislative authorities. Since August 2016 - General Director of the RBC TV channel. He is a member of the presidium of the Foundation for the Promotion of Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development, ensuring the legal security of the foundation's activities. Ranked second among legal directors in the Media Business category of the Top 1000 Russian Managers rating.
Graduated from the faculty of jurisprudence at Moscow State Technical University. N. E. Bauman.

Andrey Sikorsky

Marketing Director of the RBC Group of Companies

In July 2014, he headed RBC's project marketing department. Prior to that, from July 2010 to March 2014, he worked at RIA Novosti, where he was first Deputy Director of the Marketing and Business Development Directorate, and then, in 2012, headed the Marketing Directorate. From 2010 to 2012 he worked at Usabilitylab. Graduated from Moscow State Technical University "Stankin", studied at the Russian State Humanitarian University, lecturer at Moscow State Technical University "Stankin". Included in the Odgers Berndtson "Rating of young media managers in Russia", ranks second among marketing directors in the Media Business category of the Top 1000 Russian Managers rating.

Igor Dergunov

Deputy General Director for Economics, Finance and Investments

From 1988 to 1990 he worked as an economist at the Ministry of Finance of the USSR. From 1990 to 1996 he worked at Menatep Bank and Most Bank, in 1996 he became an adviser to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as the head of the department of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. From 1999 to 2003 - Deputy Chairman of the Menatep Spb bank. From 2005 to 2011, he served as Chairman of the Management Board of the Maritime Bank.

Graduated from the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics of the Moscow Institute of National Economy (now Plekhanov Russian University of Economics) and postgraduate studies at the Financial Institute under the Government of the Russian Federation. He holds an MBA from Hyward University (California) and an EMBA from Aalto University (Helsinki).

Alexander Zhgut

Deputy General Director of the RBC Group of Companies for Security

Since 2002, he has held senior positions in state and commercial companies, including the banking and manufacturing sectors of the economy. He took part in the creation of integrated systems for ensuring the security of objects of national importance and large industrial companies, was engaged in the implementation of new projects in the field of informatization, information security and engineering and technical protection within the framework of state programs. He has expertise in the field of anti-crisis management, business diversification, control and audit activities, participated in the creation of a system for monitoring the spending of state budget funds. He was directly involved in the creation of a system of state and municipal procurement in the Russian Federation.

He graduated from two higher military academies and two civilian universities, including the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Professor N.E. Zhukovsky (1995), Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov (2005). Specialist in jurisprudence, economics and business management, has state awards.

Top management of RBC

Ludmila Gurey

Commercial Director of RBC

He has been Corporate Commercial Director of RBC since January 2014. In 1998, she began her career at Sanoma Independent Media, where she worked her way up from advertising assistant to commercial director of the Cosmopolitan group of publications and corporate director of SIM online sales. She is a participant in the Top 1000 Russian Managers rating in the Commercial Directors nomination in the Media Business category, and is included in the Ernst & Young Business Women rating.

She graduated from the Higher School of Economics with a degree in business economics.

Alexey Abakumov

RBC Development Director

He has been RBC Development Director since 2017. From 1985 to 1991 he worked on foreign broadcasting of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Service, in the World Broadcasting Service in Russian as an editor and presenter of programs. From 1991 to 1993 - presenter, head of the Voice of Russia radio station, deputy director of the Directorate of Information Programs of Radio Russia. From 1993 to 1997 - Director of the Directorate of Information Programs of Radio Russia. He worked in "hot spots": author and producer of documentaries about the military operations in Yugoslavia (long business trips in the early 90s to all the republics of the former SFRY), the situation in Albania (1991-1995), the war in Libya (2011) and etc. In 1997, he became deputy editor-in-chief of the news program Vesti, from 1999 to 2005 he was deputy general director of Vesti. From 2005 to 2007 - Deputy General Director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Since 2007, he began working at REN-TV as Deputy General Director for Information Broadcasting and Editor-in-Chief of REN-TV. In 2012, he became the Deputy General Director of Rumedia.
Graduated in 1985 from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov.

Elizaveta Golikova

She began her career as a journalist at Komsomolskaya Pravda in 1996. Since 2001, she worked at Kommersant, where she worked her way up from a correspondent in the finance department to the editor-in-chief of the kommersant.ru website. In 2005, she participated in the launch of the Kommersant-Ukraine project. In 2013, she joined TASS as head of the Internet projects service, editor-in-chief of tass.ru. She was responsible for the relaunch of the tass.ru website, led the project to create and maintain the official portal for fans of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, welcome2018.com.

Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov.

Igor Trosnikov

Co-head of the united editorial office of RBC

Since 1992, he worked at Kommersant, held the position of deputy editor-in-chief, headed the business information block of the publishing house, and was responsible for the launch of Kommersant-Ukraine. In 2013, he moved to TASS, where he launched the economic information service, and then reformed the news service. Responsible for the work of six socio-political editions.

Graduated from the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov.

Valery Igumenov

Editor-in-chief of RBC magazine

He has been the editor-in-chief of RBC magazine since May 2014. He worked as a correspondent, executive editor of the Interfax news agency, correspondent, editor, deputy editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine.

Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov.

Ilya Doronov

Managing Director of RBC TV channel

He began working on television in 2000 in Vladimir. In 2002, he began working in Moscow as a correspondent and presenter for the VKT television company, and then as a correspondent for REN TV. Since March 2004, he has been a news anchor on REN TV. In 2015, he was appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Life News TV channel. Since December 2016, he has been the presenter of the Russia 24 TV channel. The owner of TEFI as the best presenter of an information program (2012).

Kirill Titov

Director for B2C digital products at RBC

He started his career as a programmer, having worked from 2000 to 2006 at the RusAero Central Aviation Administration, the Kuntsevo Technical Center, and Musa Motors. In 2007, he joined RBC and worked his way up from project manager to development director and head of B2C digital products.

Graduated from the Moscow Technological University (MIREA), with a degree in computer technology and automated systems software.

Irina Mitrofanova

Director of RBC Publishing House, Director of RBC Conferences

He has been the director of the RBC publishing house since July 2016. From 1995 to 1998 she worked as a commercial operations manager at ABN AMRO. From 2001 to October 2009 she worked at Independent Media, where she rose from Head of Business Conferences to Director of Business Development at Independent Media Sanoma Magazines. In 2009, she became a member of the board of directors of the Argumenty i Fakty publishing house and a number of companies of the Media 3 holding, worked as the general director of the Argumenty i Fakty publishing house, and director of development for Media 3. Since 2012 - Director for Digital Media and Multimedia Projects of Kommersant Publishing House.

Graduated in 1992 from the Russian State Pedagogical University. A. I. Herzen.

Dmitry Kharitonov

Digital director of B2B direction

He has been the digital director of business projects at RBC since September 2013. Works in the field of Internet technologies since 1999. From 2008 to 2013, he worked at Rambler (later the merged company Afisha-Rambler) as the head of the Infrastructure department, was engaged in the development of advertising technologies and data mining technologies, as well as the implementation of an analytics system.

Graduated from the radio-electronic faculty of the Oryol State Technical University.

Maxim Vasyukov

Deputy General Director of RBC

He has been Deputy General Director in the B2C segment since January 2017. He started his career as a journalist at Delovoy Peterburg, went from reporter to editor-in-chief and general director of DP.

Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of St. Petersburg State University in 2005.

Top management of RU-CENTER group of companies

Andrey Kuzmichev

Deputy General Director for Products RU-CENTER

He has been Deputy General Director for Products of RU-CENTER Group since July 2014. From 2008 to 2011, Andrey worked at Yandex, where he held various positions in the development department. From August 2011 to September 2013, Andrey was responsible for the quality of products in the United Company of Afisha and Rambler. And from September 2013 to December 2014 - for the operational management of RBC entertainment products. Member of the "Rating of young media managers of Russia" Odgers Berndtson.

Graduated with honors from Moscow State Technical University. Bauman.

Anton Terekhov

Commercial Director of RU-CENTER

He holds the position of commercial director of the group of companies

RU-CENTER since 2015. He started his career in Runet in 1997 as an editor of the "Internet marketing" section of the "InfoBusiness" project of the "Computerra" publishing house. From 2001 to 2005 held the position of Marketing and Sales Director of the leading Russian web developer ADV / web-engineering co. In the period from 2006-2008 - Marketing Director of the online store OZON.ru. In 2009, Anton moved to TUI Russia and CIS, where he held the position of E-commerce director until 2011. Since 2010, he has been the CEO of SHOPOLOG. In 2011-2013 he worked as director of e-commerce at Rambler and CEO of Begun, Price.ru and Ichiba. From 2013 to 2015, he was a partner of Target Global investment fund.

Graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University and received an MBA degree from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, specializing in marketing.

Evgeny Svetikov

Director of Hosting Products Department RU-CENTER

He started his career as a system administrator in 2003. In 2005-2008 - engineer of the physical laboratory of the Kurchatov Institute. From 2007 to 2016 - CTO and Development Director of the Agava hosting provider. Since 2016, he has been working at RU-CENTER as the director of the hosting products department.

Graduated from the Institute of Nano-, Bio-, Information, Cognitive and Socio-Humanitarian Sciences of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Andrey Proshletsov

Head of Hosting and Development at RU-CENTER

Joined the RU-CENTER team in 2015. From 2005 to 2006, he worked at Ipsos Central Eastern Europe as a specialist in the data analysis and processing department. From 2066 to 2008 - marketing specialist, and later executive director of the Information for Industry company. In 2008-2015 - General Director of Artektiv.

Graduated from Moscow State Technical University "Stankin" with a degree in "Marketing Enterprise Management"

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