Vedomosti's general director resigns
MOSCOW. June 22 (Interfax) - The general director of Business News Media (BNM), which publishes the Vedomosti newspaper, Gleb Prozorov, is resigning his post, which according to one source will be taken by Support's general director Mikhail Nelyubin.
"I wrote a letter of resignation, tomorrow is my last working day. This was our mutual decision, the shareholder's and mine, we overlapped in our aspirations," Prozorov told Interfax on Monday.
He said he was planning to take a break for now.
He declined to talk about future plans. "And after that, I am quite a self-sufficient person, I teach at university. So it is not that I will be left without a livelihood," he said.
Prozorov has worked at Vedomosti since its foundation.
A source told Interfax that Prozorov will be replaced by Nelyubin, the general director of Support which acquired all of the company's assets on May 29.
A Support spokesperson confirmed that Prozorov had written a letter of resignation and tomorrow was his last day in the job.
On June 15 it emerged that the Vedomosti board of directors confirmed Shmarov, then acting editor-in-chief of the paper and its website.
On June 11 the staff proposed that the BNM board of directors confirm Anfisa Voronina, current head of Vedomosti& partnership projects, as editor-in-chief. She was favored by two of the six members, Shmarov by three, and Yeryomin exercised his right of casting vote.
After that all his deputies said they would resign over their disagreement with this decision. They are: Dmitry Simakov, Boris Safronov, Filipp Sterkin, Kirill Kharatyan and Aleksandr Gubsky. The latter has been with Vedomosti since its foundation, the rest for about 15 years, the newspaper said.
Shmarov said earlier that the first print edition after a break due to "coronaviral" measures will come out on June 23.