The owner of the Kommersant publishing center, Alisher Usmanov, has organized a new reshuffle at the structure. He dismissed the Director General of Kommersant Holding, Andrey Galliyev, and Editor-in-Chief of Kommersant Vlast, Maksim Kovalsky.
Usmanov said that the dismissal was initiated for publication of some materials violating journalistic ethics. He added that such violations resemble minor acts of hooliganism.
The Director General of Kommersant, Demyan Kudryavtsev, filed a letter of resignation. Usmanov said that he would consider the letter in the next two weeks.
Yevgeny Minchenko, Director of the International Institute for Political Expertise, told Vestnik Kavkaza that this is not just a violation of ethics. Usmanov is an oriental person who demands subordination and respect. The prime minister should pause instead.
Concerning a Q&A show of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the Russian population, the expert believes that it would be wrong. Such shows are bad for Putin, regardless of the questions to be asked.
The director believes that the solution lies in a recount of the votes, as part of checking the protocols signed by members of electoral commissions and the protocols presented in territorial electoral commissions. Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and Astrakhan should do that. The leader of Fair Russia, Sergey Mironov, announced falsifications of votes in Saint-Petersburg and Astrakhan today.
