MOSCOW: Three top editors at a top Russian media group which has reported on the business interests of President Vladimir Putin’s family quit Friday, in the latest blow to the country’s beleaguered media industry.
The RBC group’s daily newspaper recently published a number of high-profile investigations including about the business interests of people close to Putin, among them his reported son-in-law.
The resignations came after the group controlled by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov (pix) said in April that editor-in-chief Elizaveta Osetinskaya, 39, was set to leave to take a sabbatical to study at Stanford.
Her temporary leave was then widely linked to Kremlin pressure …read more
Source: theSun
