13 December: Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov, the owner of Russia's major Kommersant publishing house, has fired the holding CEO Andrey Galiev and editor-in-chief of the Kommersant Vlast magazine Maxim Kovalsky after they published photos with offensi
13 December: Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov, the owner of Russia's major Kommersant publishing house, has fired the holding CEO Andrey Galiev and editor-in-chief of the Kommersant Vlast magazine Maxim Kovalsky after they published photos with offensi
On December 12 the magazine published several photos accompanying an article about the December 4 State Duma elections. One photo depicted a vote ballot with an obscene remark aiming Putin, written in red ink across it.
The whole magazine issue was devoted to analysis the results and the alleged violations of the vote in which Putin’s ruling United Russia party barely maintained a parliamentary majority
