ID Kommersant

One of the largest publishing houses in the business press market. Russia

Aktivs

As of January 2017:

• Kommersant-Online website
• site "Power"
• site "Money"

• newspaper "Kommersant"
• magazine "Spark"
• Weekend magazine
• Autopilot magazine

• radio "Kommersant FM"

• service "Картотека.ру"

Performance indicators

Below are the financial results of the activities of Kommersant CJSC. Publishing House ":

• 2005: revenue of 1,476,751 thousand rubles, net profit of 390,008 thousand rubles.
• 2006: revenue of 1,579,594 thousand rubles, net profit of 134,926 thousand rubles.
• 2007: revenue of 2,272,205 thousand rubles, net profit of 244,387 thousand rubles.
• 2008: revenue of 2,507,129 thousand rubles, net profit of 247,237 thousand rubles.
• 2009: revenue 1,781,494 thousand rubles, loss -57 268 thousand rubles.
• 2010: revenue of 2,032,499 thousand rubles, net profit of 116,185 thousand rubles.

Ashot Gabrelyanov: As far as I know, the operating profit of the holding (Kommersant) for 2010 did not exceed 100,000, and dollars the debt on loans is about 500 million. rubles^[1]

• 2011: revenue of 2,487,694 thousand rubles, net profit of 104,259 thousand rubles.
• 2012: revenue of 2,700,111 thousand rubles, net profit of 18,544 thousand rubles.
• 2013: revenue of 2,758,035 thousand rubles, net profit of 80,418 thousand rubles.
• 2014: revenue of 2,800,000 thousand rubles, net profit of 51,700 thousand rubles. accounts payable 548,817 thousand rubles.

• 2016: revenue 3,200,000 thousand rubles

• 2018: revenue of 3.4 billion rubles, net profit - 807.3 million rubles

History

2022: Site hacking

On February 28, 2022, the sites of RBC, Forbes, TASS, the newspapers Izvestia, Kommersant, as well as several other publications were hacked. On the main page of each of them there was a message from hackers calling for an end to the special operation in Ukraine. Read more here.

2018: Short-term DDoS attack

The website of the Kommersant newspaper on the evening of May 30, 2018 was subjected to an intensive DDoS attack, which made the resource inaccessible for more than an hour. As the editor-in-chief of the publication Sergei Yakovlev told RNS news agency, the attack began shortly before eight in the evening and lasted about 70 minutes. By 21:10 Moscow time, the site was restored, but closer to ten in the evening, the media again noted access problems. As of May 31, the site is operating normally.

Speaking to a TAdviser correspondent, the paper's representatives declined to comment on the incident, citing domestic politics.

Kommersant's website has been subjected to intense DDoS attacks in the past: in particular, in 2008, 2011 and 2012, attackers managed to disable it. In none of these cases could the organizers of the attack be found.

This year's record is a DDoS attack with an intensity of 1.7 TB/s, "said Alexander Lyamin, founder and CEO of Qrator Labs, a DDoS protection company. - In principle, it is not a problem to carry out such an attack, and the intensity of the attack is no longer a key guarantee of efficiency: there are a number of other methods of DDoS attacks that allow you to disable a network resource without "flooding" the main communication channel with garbage traffic. Apparently, the Kommersant website was not sufficiently prepared for the attack directed at it.

The fact that the attack quickly stopped may indicate its "demonstration" nature, said Georgy Lagoda, CEO of SEC Consult Services.

It is possible that the attack on Kommersant was only an "indicative performance" by any service for organizing DDoS. The Kommersant website has repeatedly become the object of DDoS attacks in the past, respectively, it is logical to assume that the resource is equipped with serious protection against such attacks. The successful disabling of it could be no more than anyone's demonstration of capabilities, - believes Georgy Lagoda.

The expert also noted that the successful implementation of this attack is a violation of a number of articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (272, 273). If the initiator of the attack was a service, then the offense can be classified as committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, which weighs down the possible legal consequences.

The editorial office of the most affected publication does not have any versions of who is behind the attack. ^[2] the ^[3]

2017: Closing paper versions of the magazines "Money" and "Power"

In January 2017, it was announced that Kommersant Publishing House was ceasing to publish printed versions of the Money and Vlast magazines. The format of weekly magazines is dying off, advertising sales in them are not growing, and printing is becoming more and more expensive, said ID CEO Vladimir Zhelonkin. The output of these magazines in paper form, in fact, eats up everything that they manage to earn. And Kommersant, according to Zhelonkin, wants to increase its EBITDA and is no longer ready to spend money on paper versions of these projects.

At the same time, Money and Vlast will continue to go online, Zhelonkin said, and most of the editorial office will continue to work. At this time, Kommersant, in addition to the newspaper of the same name, has several other publications published in paper form - the magazines Ogonyok, Weekend, Autopilot. Their publishing house will continue to produce, as they feel much better in terms of revenue than closing projects.

2016: Revenue growth to 3.2 billion rubles due to sales on the Internet

In 2016, the publishing house "Kommersant" received 3.2 billion rubles. revenue compared to 2.8 billion rubles in 2015, said the general director of the publishing house Vladimir Zhelonkin. EBITDA in 2016 amounted to about 400 million rubles. In 2017, revenue will grow by another 0.3 billion rubles, he expects. The main driver of growth is the Internet, both advertising sales and subscriptions to services like Картотеки.ру, which brought 0.5 billion rubles in 2016. The entire Internet segment brought Kommersant Publishing House in 2016 about 1 billion rubles, or a third of all revenue, said Zhelonkin^[4]

2015: Sale of "Secret of the Firm" magazine to Rambler & Co media holding

In 2015, Kommersant Publishing House sold the Secret of the Company magazine to Rambler & Co. The holding made an online publication from the Company's Secret.

2014: Audience Kommersant.ru 273 thousand people per day

According to TNS, the average audience of the Kommersant.ru site in May 2014 was 273 thousand people per day.

2012: Closure of Kommersant-TV

On June 26, 2012, it became known that Kommersant-TV, the TV channel of the Kommersant publishing house, would soon stop broadcasting. This was announced by the Slon portal with reference to several anonymous sources, as well as the former general director of Kommersant Demyan Kudryavtsev. Kudryavtsev refused to announce the reasons for the closure of TV, noting only that this was not his decision.

Employees of Kommersant-TV confirmed the information about the closure of television in their tweets. So, Marina Ivanova noted that all employees will be fired, except for those who also worked at the Kommersant-FM radio station.

Later, information about the closure of the project appeared on the official website of Kommersant: it was confirmed by the general director of the publishing house Dmitry Sergeyev. Kommersant-FM tweeted that TV is being closed due to "commercial inefficiency."

A series of changes within Kommersant began in the summer of 2012 with the fact that Demyan Kudryavtsev announced his departure from all projects related to Kommersant Publishing House (while he remained on the company's board of directors).

Immediately after Kudryavtsev's resignation, several personnel changes were announced at Kommersant. Thus, the former general director of UTV-Media Dmitry Sergeyev took the post of general director of Kommersant Holding, and Ivan Tavrin from MegaFon should take the post of chairman of the board of directors. All these companies, like Kommersant, belong to billionaire Alisher Usmanov.

Personnel reshuffles in Kommersant were not limited. In mid-June, it became known that one of the projects of the publishing house, Citizen K magazine, would close.

Kommersant Television was launched in October 2011. It initially differed from all other TV projects in that there were no presenters on Kommersant-TV: news was presented in the form of photographs, illustrations or text, they were voiced by a voiceover. In early 2012, a special project by Leonid Parfenov dedicated to the presidential elections in Russia was released on television.

Interview of Pavel Filenkov, Director General of Kommersant Publishing House, on trends in the media industry (July 2012)

2011: Editorial conflict with Usmanov. Kudryavtsev's resignation

• On December 13, 2011, it became known that the owner of the Kommersant publishing house, Alisher Usmanov, announced a personnel reshuffle in the media holding. Several leaders of Kommersant lost their posts at once^[5].

Maxim Kovalsky, editor-in-chief of Kommersant Vlast magazine, has been fired. According to some reports, this decision is explained by materials and illustrations in the latest issue of the magazine dedicated to the results of the elections to the State Duma. The owner of the publishing house called them a violation of journalistic ethics bordering on petty hooliganism.

Also, the general director of Kommersant Holding CJSC Andrei Galiev was dismissed. Demyan Kudryavtsev, General Director of Kommersant Publishing House, also wrote a letter of resignation. A decision on his candidacy will be made in the next two weeks.

In the personal blog of Demyan Kudryavtsev, it is reported that decisions on resignations were made by the Board of Directors of the Publishing House. They were explained by "violation of the internal procedures and rules of the Kommersant publishing house, as well as" violation of the standards of professional journalism and the legislation of the Russian Federation. "

"The management of the Publishing House regrets this and apologizes to readers and partners," it said.

• On December 14, 2011, Kommersant employees published an open letter in defense of Maxim Kovalsky, calling his dismissal "an act of intimidation." Alisher Usmanov, who later met with the signatories of the letter, told reporters that no sanctions would be applied to them. Earlier, Alisher Usmanov said that despite the protests of Kommersant's employees, he was not going to change his decision to dismiss Kovalsky and Galiev^[6] Prokhorov^[6].

• On December 14, 2011, Mikhail Prokhorov sent an official offer to buy the Kommersant holding to Alisher Usmanov. However, at a press conference on December 15, Prokhorov said that although the Kommersant newspaper would be interesting for him from an investment point of view, he personally does not deal with this issue anymore. "Now I am not a businessman, but a politician," Interfax quotes Prokhorov as saying.

Alisher Usmanov initially stated that he perceived Prokhorov's offer to buy Comersant only as a joke, and later added that "he had no plans to implement the media asset and was not expected." At the same time, he said that he was ready to consider the possibility of joint activities with Prokhorov's media companies.

• On December 14, 2011, it became known that the owner of Kommersant Publishing House Alisher Usmanov and the shareholders of the publishing house decided to make an offer to billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov to buy the RBC media holding. According to the agency, the proposal from Kommersant may be put forward as early as December 15.

• On December 27, it became known that the shareholders of the Kommersant publishing house accepted the resignation of general director Demyan Kudryavtsev. He will step down from this role in May 2012, finalising a number of projects. He will remain on the board of directors of the publishing house and will develop the holding's multimedia projects, Kudryavtsev himself told RIA Novosti. He added that "no one clapped the door^[7].

Later, the decision to dismiss Kovalsky was canceled, he resigned from the editorial office by agreement of the parties.

2009: Joining the magazine "Spark"

May - The oldest socio-political weekly magazine Ogonyok becomes the publication of Kommersant Publishing House.

2007: Joining the magazine "Secret of the Firm"

January - The business magazine Secret of the Firm joins the portfolio of Kommersant Publishing House publications.

2006: Usmanov bought Kommersant

• In 2006, businessman Alisher Usmanov became the owner of Kommersant Publishing House.
• September - The monthly shopping guide Kommersant Catalog, a monthly glossy publication on how to buy correctly, begins to appear.

2003: Joint projects with Channel One

January - Kommersant begins to appear. The first. Rating "- an annual appendix to the magazines" Kommersant MONEY "and" Kommersant POWER "- a joint project with Channel One.

2000: Conference Launch and Weekend

• September - The Directorate for New Projects "Kommersant XXI" was created, the task of which is to bring to the market new products for the Russian business audience (conferences, seminars, round tables, business directories, appendices to the editions of the publishing house "Kommersant," on-line projects, etc.).
• November - Kommersant Weekend begins to appear - weekly thematic pages of the Kommersant newspaper dedicated to leisure activities.

1996: The Kommersant Club was created

October - The Kommersant Club was created, uniting like-minded people of the modern business generation of Russia.

1994: Autopilot Magazine Launched

May - Autopilot begins to appear - the first monthly illustrated car magazine in Russia for owners of foreign cars.

1993: Launch of "Domovoy" and "Money" magazines

• May - The first illustrated monthly magazine for family reading in Russia, Domovoy, begins to appear.
• September - Kommersant MONEY magazine begins to appear - the first popular economic weekly in Russia.

1992: Launch of the newspaper and magazine "Vlast"

• September - The Kommersant newspaper begins to appear - the first daily business newspaper in Russia.
• November - The first analytical weekly weekly weekly in Russia begins to appear, since November 1997 it has been renamed the Kommersant VLAST magazine.

1989: Launch of the Kommersant newspaper

• December - In cooperation with the Union of Cooperators, Fact begins to publish the weekly newspaper Kommersant, the first private business publication in the country.

1987: Establishment of the Fact Help Desk

• 1987 October - The Fact reference and information service is being created - the first non-state news agency in the country.

• On June 15, 1988, Ogonyok magazine correspondent Vladimir Yakovlev registered the Fact information cooperative. From that moment begins the history of the Kommersant Publishing House.

Editor-in-chief of the magazine "Ogonyok" (later will be included in the publishing house of Kommersant) Vitaly Korotich with the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1987 TASS photo chronicle, Vladimir Repik

1927

"Spark," 1927. The inscription on the cover: "Do not kiss! Through kissing at a meeting, this year's general illness spreads the most - flu!»

1912: Infographics in the magazine "Spark"

On April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank. Ogonyok magazine covered this event using infographics.

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