Kommersant still publishing English-language version?

[Josh Wilson]

No, Kommersant has not updated the English side of its side since mid-
December, 2008. 

After it was bought by Alisher Usmanov, the English-language news project
was plagued by budget cuts which lead to the release of most of its
native-English speaking translators and editors. It was then rather
unceremoniously closed as the economic crisis was just starting to tighten
advertising spending.

The oddest thing about it, in my view, was that Moscow's other
English-speaking press didn't make much noise about it... 

You can still find the occasional Kommersant article in English from
published in JRL (Johnson's Russia List, just Google that to find out how to
subscribe). 



Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
jwilson at sras.org


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[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Margarita Nafpaktitis
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:54 PM
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Kommersant still publishing English-language version?

Dear colleagues,
Is Kommersant still publishing an English-language version of some of its
content?  I've been trying to find it and have had no luck...

Thanks in advance,

Margarita
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Margarita Nafpaktitis
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Virginia
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Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4783
Tel: (434) 924-3548   FAX: (434) 982-2744
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