Vedomosti

Vedomosti is a Russian business newspaper that began publication in 1999. It was started as a joint venture of Dow Jones & Company, the Financial Times and the owners of The Moscow Times.

After Russia passed a law in 2014 limiting foreign ownership of Russian media companies to no more than 20%, the FT and Dow Jones sold their interests in 2015. The Guardian newspaper reported that Vedomosti was sold to new owners in March 2020, and while it is unclear who the new owners are, they quickly began to censor the newspaper's content to favor Russian government interests.

The website is presented in the Russian language.

Websites

Vedomosti newspaper website
All local news media in Moscow, Russia

Ratings

Content:     Very Good (1 vote)
Political Bias:   Leans Right (1 vote)
Credibility:   High (1 vote)

News

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Vedomosti Becomes Another Pro-Putin Paper
-- Vedomosti, one of the leading business newspapers in Russia, has new owners who are censoring coverage to curry favor with the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Five senior editors resigned in protest on June 15, 2020, with one saying the new editor-in-chief, Andrei Shmarov, "doesn't care about rules, standards and principles." Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Anton...

Bad News for "The New Vedomosti"
-- Journalists at the leading Russian business newspaper say it is being destroyed from the inside by new owners who took control in March 2020. The Guardian newspaper reported Vedomosti staff wrote in an editorial that "Vedomosti will become just another dependent and controlled media outlet." Andrew Roth wrote the story on April 24, 2020: Russian newspaper staff rebel against editor accused of censorship
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, May 1, 2020

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