Komsomolskaya Pravda

The Komsomolskaya Pravda (Russian Комсомольская правда ) is a Russian newspaper whose headquarters are located in Moscow, but appears throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia and is common.

History

The " newspaper in sweatshirt " was once a nickname for the Komsomol mouthpiece Komsomolskaya Pravda, a newspaper of national youth organization of the USSR, which was founded in 1925. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, the tide changed to a modern tabloid not only for young readers. In this revolution the newspaper had a circulation of 3 million copies, which fell by increasing competition regional newspapers and their new status as just one of many titles in the Russian newspaper landscape in the course of the 90s and even after the Millennium.

Today

Today's Komsomolskaya Pravda published in several regional editions. The Moscow edition case has a circulation of over 160,000 copies, while the regional editions reach a circulation of almost 650,000 copies. Thus, the Komsomolskaya Pravda of the top-selling daily newspaper titles in the Russian Federation in front of the Moskovsky Komsomolets is. She is a successful and popular newspaper and is printed in 62 regions of Russia. She also appears in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Ukraine, and is widely used in the rest of Eastern Europe and other CIS countries in the Russian-speaking minorities. 200 journalists are employed at the headquarters in Moscow. Like most other national newspapers it has lost in recent years market shares in regional and local newspapers.

A much higher circulation than the newspaper itself has brought out of her weekly Komsomolskaya Pravda Tolstuschka (3.1 million ). After the edition, this is number two among Russian weeklies. In addition, there is a second branch of a weekly newspaper for the region Moscow Komsomolskaya Pravda w Moskwe (circulation 140,000 ).

Ownership structure

Editor of Komsomolskaya Pravda is the publishing house Komsomolskaya Pravda, which also includes the magazines Sovetsky Sport and Express Gazeta belong.

After informing the newspaper Kommersant publishing house is Komsomolskaya Pravda in January 2007 majority owned by the company Media Partners. Media Partners is part of the group of companies ESN, which belongs to the businessman Grigori Berjoskin. Other portions include certain employees of Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Prior to joining the company's media partners, the publishing house was owned by a majority of the media holding Prof-Media, which in turn is part of the business empire of Vladimir Potanin. By 2007, also had the Norwegian media group A- presses a blocking minority of 25.02 percent at the publishing house Komsomolskaya Pravda. A Presen sold his share for an undisclosed sum to the main owner of ESN.