Sergei Yakovlev offered post of editor-in-chief of newspaper Kommersant - president of publishing house Kommersant
MOSCOW. Nov 10 (Interfax) - The new editor-in-chief of the newspaper Kommersant may be appointed before the end of Monday, November 10, Vladimir Zhelonkin, president of the publishing house Kommersant, said.
"Sergei Yakovlev, editor-in-chief of the magazine Dengi, has been offered the post of editor-in-chief of the paper. He may be appointed today," Zhelonkin said.
Zhelonkin said Mikhail Mikhailin, former editor-in-chief of Kommersant, "will remain within the structure of the holding."
Speaking about the reasons for Mikhailin's departure from the post of Kommersant editor-in-chief, Zhelonkin said "there are no political motives in it."
"Mikhailin made that decision himself. I can't say we are very happy about it, but we have no right to resist if that's what he wants," Zhelonkin said.
Pavel Filenkov, general director of the publishing house Kommersant, said earlier that Mikhailin was leaving the post of editor-in-chief of the newspaper Kommersant. "It's our joint decision," Filenkov said.
