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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2022 15:37:34 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2022 15:39:27 GMT -7
 The Moscow Times (TMT) is an independent English-language online newspaper based in Moscow. It was in print from 1992 until 2017 and was distributed free of charge at places frequented by English-speaking tourists and expatriates such as hotels, cafés, embassies, and airlines, and also by subscription. The newspaper is popular among foreign citizens residing in Moscow and English-speaking Russians. In November 2015 the newspaper changed its design and type from daily to weekly (released every Thursday) and increased the number of pages to 24, and it became online-only in July 2017.
The newspaper regularly publishes articles by prominent Russian journalists such as Yulia Latynina and Ivan Nechepurenko. Some foreign correspondents started their careers at the paper, including Ellen Barry, who later became The New York Times Moscow bureau chief. Yulia Leonidovna Latynina (Russian: Ю́лия Леони́довна Латы́нина; born 16 June 1966) is a Russian writer and journalist. She is a columnist for Novaya Gazeta and the most popular host at the Echo of Moscow radio station for years. Yulia Latynina has written more than twenty books, including fantasy and crime fiction. On the night of 18 and 19 July 2017, Latynina was attacked at her home with a very pungent and caustic type of gas of unknown composition being sprayed throughout her house. Along with herself, 8 people were additionally injured in the gas attack, including four elderly people and two children. She said that she would not bring the case to the police (as police had not investigated some attacks on opposition politicians), stating "I will not be a part of this comedy." On 2 September, Latynina's car was set on fire. The investigator said that "the car caught fire by itself". On 9 September, Latynina announced that she left Russia with her relatives and would not be going to return "in the near future". She called the car's arson an attempted murder. Condoleezza Rice presents Latynina with the Freedom Defenders Award in 2008 Ivan Nechepurenko (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Нечепуренко) is a Russian writer and journalist. Born in St Petersburg in 1986, he lives in Moscow and serves as a reporter for The New York Times. His writings have also been published by The Moscow Times (reprinted by The Guardian), The Aspen Institute, Kyiv Post, The Insider, GQ Russia and Slon.ru website. Nechepurenko has closely collaborated with Carnegie Moscow Center and The International Crisis Group and appeared on the BBC, CBC, France 24, CTV, i24news among other media outlets.
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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2022 15:40:34 GMT -7
HistoryFounding and current ownershipDerk Sauer, a Dutch publisher who came to Moscow in 1989, made plans to turn his small, twice-weekly paper called the Moscow Guardian into a world-class daily newspaper. Sauer brought in Meg Bortin as its first editor in May 1992, and the team used a room at the Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel as its headquarters.
Derk Sauer (born 31 October 1952) is a Dutch media magnate who has operated largely in Russia. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derk_Sauer )
The Moscow Times was founded in 1992 by Derk Sauer to reach US and European expats who moved to Moscow after the fall of communism. Sauer said, "It was a completely different time, there was no internet and there was a huge influx of Western expats who didn't speak Russian. At the time, they were the only ones with money in Moscow, so The Moscow Times was an interesting medium for advertisers".
The first edition of The Moscow Times was published in March 1992. It was the first Western daily to be published in Russia, and quickly became "a primary source of news and opinion" quoted in both Russia and the West.
It "played an important role by giving space to Russian commentators". For example, in the fall of 1993, it was able to play a role in defeating the censors: "when anti-Yeltsin forces occupied the Russian Parliament and censorship was revived. Russian newspapers came out with large blank spaces on their front pages where articles critical of the authorities had been suppressed. The writers of those articles came to see us. Published the next day in English in The Moscow Times, their articles were quickly picked up and beamed back in Russian by the BBC and other foreign radios, defeating the censors."
From the mid-1990s until 2000, it was based in the old headquarters of Pravda. In 1997, the website moscowtimes.ru was registered.
In July 2017 the operation of the paper changed to Stichting 2 Oktober, a foundation based in the Netherlands.
The Moscow Times currently belongs to a limited liability company which is 51% owned-by Vladimir Dzhao, the CEO of an airline catering company, 30% by Svetlana Korshunova, general director of the paper, and 19% by Derk Sauer, the original founder of the paper. Speaking to Kommersant, Derk Sauer explained that this is merely to comply with a Russian law which prohibits foreigners from controlling more than 20% of any Russia-based media company, since Sauer is a Dutch citizen. He further said that Vladimir Dzhao is an old friend of his, and "he does not control the publication, he is a partner".
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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2022 15:50:26 GMT -7
ExpansionIn 2003–04, the newspaper added Jobs & Careers and Real Estate appendices, and in 2005 the Moscow Guide appendix, featuring high culture. The annual Moscow Dining Guide was also launched in 2005.
Until 2005, the paper was owned by Independent Media, a Moscow-registered publishing house that also prints a Russian-language daily newspaper, Vedomosti, The St. Petersburg Times (The Moscow Times' counterpart in Saint Petersburg) and Russian-language versions of popular glossy magazines such as FHM, Men's Health and Cosmopolitan Russia. That year, Independent Media was acquired by the Finnish publishing group Sanoma at an enterprise value of €142 million.
In 2006, the paper began its alliance with the International Herald Tribune, while 2009 saw the launch of the themoscowtimes.com website. The first color issue was published in 2010.
In 2009, it published Russia for Beginners: A Foreigner's Guide to Russia, written by foreign authors who offer advice based on their own experiences of living in Russia. The paper celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2012 with a gala dinner at the Hotel Baltschug Kempinski in Moscow.Recent developments In January 2014, malicious ads on the newspaper's website redirected visitors to an exploit kit landing page. In December 2014, The Moscow Times was forced offline for two days by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. It was forced offline a second time in February 2015 for unknown reasons.
In April 2014 longtime editor-in-chief Andrew McChesney stepped down and was replaced by Nabi Abdullaev, a former Moscow Times reporter, news editor, managing editor, and deputy editor-in-chief who had left in 2011 to head RIA Novosti's foreign-language news service. Shortly after his appointment, Abdullaev argued in The Guardian that the west's "biased journalism ...robs the west of its moral authority". In Autumn 2015 Abdullaev was removed from his post and replaced by Mikhail Fishman, former head of Newsweek's Russian edition.
In October 2014 The Moscow Times made the decision to temporarily suspend online comments after an increase in abusive and excessive pro-Russian trolling. The paper said it disabled comments for two reasons — it was an inconvenience for its readers as well as being a legal liability, because under Russian law websites are liable for all content, including user-generated content like comments.
In 2014, sister publication The St. Petersburg Times ceased publication. In 2015, Sanoma sold MoscowTimes LLC to Demyan Kudryavtsev, a former director of Kommersant. In 2017, the paper version stopped. The final paper edition appeared on July 6.
Separate publications and special projects- Inter-country annexes The Moscow Times – Russia-France, Russia-Finland, Russia-UK, etc. These editions are dedicated to bilateral issues of cooperation and promote establishing of business and investment programs of interaction between two countries. They focus on economic, trade, and investment, as well as inter-culture project, tourism issues.
- Real Estate Catalog and Real Estate Quarterly – regular specialized business editions about the real estate market
- The Moscow Times Guide – Russia for Beginners, Russia for the Advanced, Dining Guide, Travel Guide, Bar Guide glamorous edition, seasonal style guide, fashionable trends, cultural events in Moscow.
- Conferences: The Moscow Times – meeting place of Russian and foreign investors, businessmen and experts in Russia and abroad as well.
- In March 2020, the online newspaper launched a Russian-language edition, which eventually became the independent VTimes news website, a project with Russian journalists who left the Vedomosti business daily over censorship concerns. Russia designated VTimes as a "foreign agent" in May 2021, saying it was registered in the Netherlands; on 3 June 2021, VTimes announced closure of its operations on 12 June, citing operational difficulties connected with the status.
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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2022 15:52:04 GMT -7
Chief editors
- Matt Bivens, 1998 until 2001
- Lynn Berry, January 2001 until June 2006
- Andrew McChesney, June 2006 until April 2014
- Nabi Abdullaev [Wikidata], April 2014 until October 2015
- Mikhail Vladimirovich Fishman, November 2015 until July 2017
- Eva Hartog Skorobogatova, 2017 until 2019
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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2022 15:52:51 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2022 15:53:32 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Mar 9, 2022 16:57:40 GMT -7
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