Kommersant
Kommersant is a major Russian daily newspaper and news website focused on business, finance, and politics, published in Russian. Long regarded as one of the country's leading business publications, it covers economic affairs, corporate news, and domestic and international developments.
Kommersant at a glance
- Country
- Russia
- Kind of outlet
- Business daily
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1989
- Published from
- Moscow
- Website
- kommersant.ru ↗
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How Crosswire groups Kommersant
Crosswire groups Kommersant as Centrist for comparisons within Russia's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Russia, Meduza is listed as Left-leaning, while RT and TASS are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Kommersant beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Kommersant sits in Russia's press
Kommersant was founded in 1989 and is published from Moscow. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Russia and the only business daily tracked there. By outlets tracked, Russia ranks 25th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 13 of the 30 business dailies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Kommersant outside Russia, starting with Central and Eastern Europe, are Financial Times (United Kingdom), Dagens Industri (Sweden), Kauppalehti (Finland) and Handelsblatt (Germany). Opening one of them beside Kommersant is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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