Malakhov Alexander

Biography

He worked in the publication CNews.

2017: Rambler News Service Editor-in-Chief

In 2015, Alexander Malakhov took the position of deputy chief editor of RNS, and in 2017 he was appointed to the post of chief editor.

In July 2020, he left Rambler.

"We are sorry that he is leaving the Rambler Group, but we understand his desire to move on and wish him success in his career," the press service said.

RIA Novosti Malakhov himself did not talk about the reasons for leaving, noting that with a new place of work "there is no exact certainty yet."

2022: Court with Vedomosti after dismissal

In February 2022, five Vedomosti employees wrote a statement to the Ostankino Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office and the State Labor Inspectorate in Moscow after receiving notifications of "reduction and imminent dismissal" in connection with the abolition of the online edition of the publication from April 20. As explained to RBC by the chief editor of the site Vedomosti.ru Alexander Malakhov, in addition to him, correspondents Vladislav Puzyrev, Tatyana Morozova, Natalya Ivankina and website editor Yegor Efimchik also signed the statement. On the Vedomosti website, nine people Vedomosti.ru named employees of the unit, not counting Malakhov.

Morozova told RBC that no one discussed the disbandment of the unit with the online editorial staff: "The HR director kept the topic of the conversation secret until we were called one at a time and the witnesses read out notifications, as if it were a court verdict. The general director who signed the notifications did not appear and was not explained. " She noted that "the division brings a large share of traffic," and the reorganization will not improve work and "carries risks" for the publication.

The statement, the partial text of which is available to RBC, says that the reduction has signs of fictitious, since everyone except Malakhov, under the threat of dismissal, was invited to go to the editorial office of the Vedomosti newspaper with similar job names and maintaining salaries. Malakhov was offered the post of graduate editor with a lower salary. "The transformations carried out by the employer do not lead to a decrease in the total number of employees, as is directly assumed by paragraph 2 of Art. 81 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation when reduced, but are used for the purpose of forcibly transferring employees from one structural unit to another with a deterioration of their situation and putting pressure on them," the statement said.

Malakhov at this time is suing Business News Media JSC, the publisher of Vedomosti, follows from the base of the Moscow City Court. In January, two lawsuits were received by the Ostankino District Court of Moscow, the reason for the dispute in both cases was formulated "as invalidation of the conclusion of the official audit, disciplinary sanctions, certification results, and the results of the competition for the position of state (municipal) service." Meetings on these claims are scheduled for March 10 and 22.

Malakhov claims that the employer first brought him to disciplinary responsibility in August 2021. But this order, which relates to missing a meeting with the general director, was subsequently canceled by the labor inspectorate, and two other penalties, which Malakhov considers "far-fetched," are disputed in court. The decision to abolish the online edition was made after familiarizing the publisher with the claims.

In particular, Malakhov, according to him, received one of the penalties a few days after he refused to write a text about the creation of a "global business media association," which at that time included only Vedomosti and Federalpress from the media. These publications have one owner - Ivan Eremin^[1].

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