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Vasilev Fires Kommersant's Editor-in-Chief
May 27, general manager of Kommersant Publishing House in his decree as of May 26 fired Kommersant's editor-in-chief, replacing him by his deputy Aleksander Stukalin. Head Editor of the Joint Editorial Department explained the reason for such a decision in yesterday's issue of the newspaper.
Here's a short summary of the notice:
A careful reader of the printed Russian newspaper could notice that the post of editor-in-chief disappeared from the newspaper's editorial list yet in 2002, right after Andrei Vasilev was appointed general manager. That happened for a simple reason – three posts against one name sounds some sort of crazy, to say nothing of the fact that these two posts are unrelated, moreover, they are antagonistic: general manager must make money, editor-in-chief can't but spend it. Though the second argument is a mere formality, since both creative and financial aspects satisfied everybody – the readers, the partners and the owner. Moreover, the newspaper satisfied the editor-in-chief, long and thoroughly. And that was the main reason why general director Andrei Vasilev fired the Andrei Vasilev editor-in-chief, according to Andrei Vasilev - Head Editor of the Joint Editorial Department of Kommersant Media Holding. Kommersant's editor-in-chief never worked as long as 5 years, and thank to that the newspaper always remained dynamic and adequate, Mr. Vasilev said.
Now about Mr. Stukalin:
Stukalin Aleksander, 1969. 1986-1992 – Student at Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman (MGTU). Starting 1992 – head of group, then deputy head of Kommersant's politics department. 1994-1995 – Issuing editor of Kommersant's Thursday issues. 1995 – Head of Kommersant's federal programs center. 1996-2002 – Head of the information center of Kommersant Publishing House. Starting January 2003 – deputy editor-in-chief.
Even this short information allows us to draw the conclusion: Stukalin knows everything about Kommersant. Twelve years of work is not long enough to forget Kommersant's mistakes, not short enough to learn to avoid them and quite enough to form his own opinion as to what the newspaper should look like in the future. Aleksander Stukalin has already proved his competence in making today's newspaper – he has virtually been its editor-in-chief for the past two months, and nobody has noticed it.
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