RIA Novosti is the flagship website of the Rossiya Segodnya media group. The agency’s correspondent network covers over 120 cities in the world. The agency is the most quoted Russian media outlet, including on social media. RIA.RU gets around 8 million readers daily, which makes it the leading website among all news portals in the Runet. RIA Novosti’s total audience on social media (Twitter, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, TikTok, Rutube, Yandex Zen) is around 10.5 million subscribers.

Dmitry Kiselev

Director General of the Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group

Dmitry Kiselev

Director General of the Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group

Kiselev began his career in journalism at the Novosti Press Agency and at the USSR State Committee for Television & Radio Broadcasting (Gosteleradio).

Throughout the years he served in multiple roles, including as a commentator, anchor, and news executive, working for various Russian programs and channels.

From 2008 to 2012 Kiselev was the Deputy Director General of the Russian State TV & Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK), where he continues to produce and host a weekly news program called Vesti Nedeli.

On December 9, 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Kiselev as the Director General of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, which he continues to head today.

Kiselev holds multiple honors and state awards, including the Order of Friendship, the Order for Services to the Fatherland and the Order of St.Sergius of Radonezh.

RBC is a leading business media, that has been helping to find important information for the last 25 years.

Established in 1993, it began with the distribution of printouts of stock quotes and exchange rates. In 1995, the website was created, in 2003 the first business TV channel in Russian was launched, in 2006 the RBC Daily newspaper and RBC Magazine appeared, in the same year RBC began to hold business events. In 2010, thematic projects appeared - Autonews, Real Estate, Style and RBC Market Research (marketplace research and research agency). In 2014, all platforms were united under a single RBC brand: digital, TV channel, press. In 2019, new projects were launched - RBC Pro (professional information for business) and RBC Trends.

Our audience is professionals, business owners and government officials. These are economically active people who value their time, so we distribute content wherever it is convenient to consume it: on the website, in mobile, on social networks, TV channel, daily newspaper and magazine.

Nikolay Molibog

CEO of RBC Holding

Nikolay Molibog

CEO of RBC Holding

Born on July 16, 1975 in the Republic of Karelia. In 1997, he graduated from the Department of Economics of Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Sciences. In 2000–2003, he was manager of the regional network of Kommersant publishing house. In 2003, he worked as Deputy Managing Director of broadsheet newspaper Gazeta. From 2004, he advanced from Director for Distribution and Regional Development and Publisher at Bolshoi Gorod to Director for Publishing Projects, Deputy Director, and finally CEO of Afisha publishing house (since September 2009). Since July 2010 and up to May 2013, Nikolay was CEO of Afisha-Rambler united company. From August 2013, he held the position of RBC's First Deputy CEO. From January 2014, he has been CEO of RBC. From May 2014, he has also been CEO of RU-CENTER and President of the Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development (FAITID).

Nikolay is married with two children.

Business FM - Russia’s first business radio station.

Broadcasting in Moscow at the frequency 87.5 FM,

Saint-Petersburg - 107,4 FM,

Ufa - 107,5 FM,

Kaliningrad - 101,8 FM,

Ekaterinburg - 99,4 FM,

Krasnoyarsk - 104,2 FM,

Сhelyabinsk - 100,8 FM.

Nignii Novgorod - 107,8 FM,

Novosibirsk - 105,7 FM,

Kazan - 93,5 FM,

Barnaul - 90,7 FM,

Krasnodar - 106,8 FM,

Samara - 91,5 FM.

Business FM provides an exclusive product for a small segment of the general public, but the most active and influential one, which in minutes must have the full spectrum of information about money. Business FM is a member company of the RUMEDIA group of companies.

The newspaper Vedomosti, published by Business News Media JSC, has for more than 20 years confirmed its indisputable authority on the market of leading economic and business media in Russia.

Vedomosti is a reliable and up-to-date newspaper that focuses on companies’ news and markets and allows the readers to make their own opinion on all issues of the economy and business processes, macroeconomic development and the influence of political factors on them; it is an objective and relevant analytical information for managers and decision-makers, expert commentary on issues of concern to the business community, interviews with contemporary figures in their fields. Vedomosti’s editorial policy fully meets the demands of its readers for deliberated, analytical, and objective coverage of events in both business and political areas.

Top managers and business owners constitute the major part of Vedomosti’s audience (49%), which proves the high standards of business reporting.

Apart from the newspaper and the web-page (www.vedomosti.ru), Vedomosti includes a wide range of standalone projects and supplements.

“RG Media” is a media holding with a 30—year history that provides timely and reliable information about the most significant events of federal, regional and international scale 24/7. It explores news, reports, exclusive interviews, and comments from statesmen and influential representatives of business, political and cultural life of the country in all digital formats and print.

The media holding includes:

“Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, a daily print publication that is the leader in terms of the volume of the federal audience among daily socio-political newspapers.

“Rossiyskaya Gazeta – Nedelya”, a weekly issue for family reading, offering its audience not only key topics analytics for the week, but also explaining federal initiatives and significant events in the country in an accessible way.

“Rodina”, a monthly historical magazine with a 140–year history.

RG.RU, an information portal that occupies a leading position in terms of the site's audience among the media.

Pavel Negoitsa

General Director of FSBI Editorial Office of Rossiyskaya Gazeta

Pavel Negoitsa

General Director of FSBI Editorial Office of Rossiyskaya Gazeta

Born on July 14, 1952 in Izmail.

Awards:

Medal “For Faith and Goodness” (2010);

Order of Friendship (2010).

Letter of gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2012, 2018)

Medal of the Republic of Tatarstan "Valorous Labour" (2015)

Order of Honour of the Republic of Belarus (2015)

Order of Honour of the Russian Federation (2016)

Honorary Certificate of the Russian Government (2017)

Honorary Certificate President of the Russian Federation (2019)

Order of Star of the Italy (2019)

In 1979, he graduated from the Moscow State University, majoring in International Journalism.

From 1979 to 2003, he worked in the newspaper Trud, moving from an intern, then staff

correspondent in Italy, to the general director of the newspaper. In 2003, he was deputy

general director of the newspaper Izvestia. In Rossiyskaya Gazeta, has held the position of Deputy General Director – Director of the regional network. Since 2010, he has been the general director of FSBI Editorial Office of Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Pravo.ru - This is the main legal media in Russia, which specializes in arbitration, judgment, legislation and news of the judicial system.

The Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI) was founded on Feb. 10, 2009 in coordination with the Russian Constitutional Court, Russian Supreme Court, Russian Supreme Commercial Court, and RIA Novosti. Due to the involvement of Russia’s highest courts, RAPSI is uniquely situated to provide its readers with exclusive information directly from the press services of courts of all levels and competencies.

Objectives:

• To provide the public with timely, objective coverage of Russian and international legal news;

• To promote transparency and openness of the Russian legal system and law enforcement agencies;

• To promote legal reform in Russia;

• To enhance legal literacy both among society at large;

• To combat legal illiteracy among each of our citizens;

• To broadcast all sides of every story;

• To fight corruption and ensure the transparency;

• To provide conditions for a comprehensive dialogue between all parties of legal relations;

• To form a platform for discussing topical legal issues.

RAPSI’s audience is comprised of members of the general public, representatives of the legal community and law enforcement agencies, Russian and foreign lawyers and legal experts, business professionals, and the media, as well as anyone else who wishes to receive regular updates on domestic and international issues from a legal perspective.

Oleg Efrosinin

Editor-in-chief «Justice RF», General Manager

Oleg Efrosinin

Editor-in-chief «Justice RF», General Manager

Oleg Anatolyevich Efrosinin: since 2009 - present – Russian Agency for Legal and Сourt Information (RAPSI), editor-in-chief, 2021 - present – «Justice RF», General Manager.

For more than 20 years, Oleg has held leadership positions in the legal and media spheres in Russian companies. Oleg is a prominent expert in the field of media projects, including specialized legal projects. He has a unique experience in business media, press services of political parties. He is a media visionary in creating and promoting legal content in Russia. Oleg Efrosinin is a member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. Oleg is an award winner of: "Media Manager of Russia" National Awards – 3 times. "For National Journalizm Awards", "Legal Media Management" In 2021 he was awarded for creating and developing a top online media management model.

MIC Izvestia is the first multimedia information center in Russia. MIC Izvestia includes Internet news portal IZ.ru, 24/7 news channel Izvestia (IZ.RU), Izvestia newspaper, Delovoy Peterburg newspaper, the news services of REN TV channel and Channel Five, and regional TV Channel 78. MIC Izvestia is a multi-purpose platform for generating multi-format information content (TV, print, online). Monthly online audience of MIC Izvestia is about 61 mln people, TV audience – 80 mln people. MIC Izvestia is constantly getting into the top 3 news online sources according to LiveInternet.

The Center also runs a brand new Internet portal called IZ.ru allowing for both twenty-four-hour news TV broadcasting and socio-political publishing. The editorial team works in an innovative format, and simultaneously broadcasts in several formats, including news, video, photo, and analytics.

Users can see the hottest news in the crawl line, and enjoy a number of modern visualization tools, such as 3D infographics with location-based maps, photo and video elements. The 360-degree camera provides for the participation effect. The portal has many state-of-the-art interactive features, such as auto-attendant and text-to-speech.

Interfax is Russia’s biggest independent media group. It has developed data-driven solutions to help businesses with informed decision making and is one of the leading news agencies in Russia itself and one of the most frequently quoted Russian news agencies globally.

The Group’s best-known IT products are SPARK, SCAN, X-Compliance, Marker and RU Data, which help businesses to successfully manage risk and solve problems in areas like KYC, compliance, competitive intelligence, due diligence and business reputation assessment; to work in the financial and commodity markets, including the public procurement sector; to comply with regulatory requirements; to analyze and monitor the media and social media; and to organize external communications.

Interfax produces information products for professional use in the media, government agencies, companies and banks.

Interfax holds the status of an agency accredited by the Bank of Russia to disclose information on the stock market.

«Kommersant» is one of the first independent media companies founded in Russia. For almost 30 years, impartiality, accurateness and speed guided the authors of «Kommersant», the first business daily in the country. These principles helped «Kommersant» to remain among the most reliable and influential media.

Apart from the broadsheet daily, the company also publishes a weekly magazine «Kommersant WEEKEND», monthly automobile magazine «Kommersant AUTOPILOT», supplements «Kommersant DENGI» and «Kommersant KIDS», monthly color supplement «Kommersant STYLE» about lifestyle and actual fashion trends.

«Kommersant» has been online since 1995, and opened «Kommersant FM» radio in 2010.

«Kommersant» apps are available for mobile devices operating on Android and iOS platforms.

Intergovernmental Television and Radio Company «Mir» comprises TV channels «MIR», «MIR 24», radio «MIR», informational portal mir24.tv and multifunctional satellite system MIR-Teleport.

TV channel «MIR» – educational programs of the ITRC own production and feature movies.

«MIR 24» is the first Eurasian information channel that forms new Eurasian elites.

Radio «MIR» - popular russian-language music of the last 15 years. Around the clock on the air – news, interviews with stars, educational and entertainment programs on a wide range of topics.

Information and analytical Internet portal mir24.tv - latest news, exclusive interviews, operational comments from experts, as well as interactive tests, photos and exclusive materials about science, history, culture and travel.

ITRC «Mir» was established in 1992 to maintain the common information space and promote the international information exchange in the CIS.

The total audience is more than 186 million people.

The Competition and Law journal is the first printed specialised practice-based publication on competition law.

It has been published since 2010. It comes out once every two months. The volume is 80 pages. Available electronically.

The journal contains the following materials:

– interviews with representatives of state authorities and the business community;

– articles on topical issues of antimonopoly regulation with an analysis of risks and practical recommendations for business people;

– the trends in administrative and court practice;

– opinions and cases of experts;

– materials on the leading Russian and international practices in the area of the protection of competition;

– reports on key antimonopoly events.

The expert board of Competition and Law journal includes representatives of the Russian Constitutional Court, the State Duma, the Eurasian Economic Commission, the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service and of the scientific and business community.

LAWTEK.RU is an Internet platform that incorporates projects in the fuel and energy complex regulation field (oil, gas, subsoil use, power generation).

• Educational projects in the RusEnergyLaw Institute- workshops, courses, case studies.

• Practical conferences - Taxes and TEK Forum, All-Russian Subsoil User Forum.

Information projects: Oil, Gas and Law Journal; Energy and Law Journal; "SUBSOIL USE" magazine, Mineral Recourses of Russia. Economics and Management Journal

• Internet projects: LawTek.Ru portal, НЕДРОПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ.РФ

Nalogoved is a club where complicated matters and hot topics of tax law and legal aspects of taxation are discussed. The journal also looks into challenges of how customs duties are withheld and how the foreign currency legislation is applied.

Published with intellectual and information support from Pepeliaev Group

Editor-in-Chief: Sergey Pepeliaev

Teachers of the best universities in Russia represent the editorial board. One of the members of the editorial board is a professor of the Faculty of Law at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

Among our regular readers are representatives of the state authorities: the Russian Ministry of Finance, the Russian Federal Tax Service, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament) and the Federation Council (the upper chamber of the Russian Parliament), the Russian Constitutional Court, the Russian Supreme Court and state commercial (arbitration) courts.

Published since 2004, published monthly in paper and electronic form.

The journal is included in the List of peer-reviewed journals of the Russian Ministry of Education and the Russian Index of Academic Citation (RIAC).

Legal Information Agency (legalpress.ru) focuses on the coverage of law enforcement practice, including court judgments and legislative initiatives.

Database "Сourt judgments" (ruscourt.info) contains information about the cases considered by the russian courts and the decisions made by them. It is the largest open database of court information today, including more than 64 million cases. Users can find a case by its number, surname or name of the participant, the text of the decision, region and court, category, results of the review and other parameters.

Judicial Statistics of the Russian Federation service (sudstat.ru) has been an open database since 2014. Information on all types of legal proceedings is collected here, and tabular forms simplify searching information in the database.

Pavel Netupsky

Editor-in-Chief of the Legal Information Agency

Pavel Netupsky

Editor-in-Chief of the Legal Information Agency

Specializes in legal journalism since 1993. He worked in the newspapers «Delovoy Peterburg», «St. Petersburg Vedomosti», «Delovoy Panorama», «Navy Prospekt», «Fontanka.ru», the Court Information Agency, RAPSI and other media.

Nominee of the award «For Achievements in Legal Science and Practice» in 2000 and the winner of the National award in financial journalism «Media Capital» in 2009.

Graduate of the Open World program on theme «Rule of Law» in 2003.

A member of the Council of the Guild of Court Reporters.

He has been a member of the Media Audience Chamber of the Russian Press Council since 2020.

IP CLUB is one of Russia's largest expert and educational projects in the field of intellectual property law, information technology law and digital law. IP CLUB's mission is to contribute to the development and improvement of domestic law, including through opinions and publications on complex legal issues.

Studying how digital technology affects law, including intellectual property law, the IP CLUB publishes books in the IP & Digital Law series, as well as the intercollegiate project "The Law of the Digital Economy".

IP CLUB initiated the All-Russian IP&IT LAW Contest, held under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and was awarded the Runet Prize "For Contribution to Legal Thought in the Digital Society".

IP CLUB conducts online discussions aimed at dissecting complex issues of digital law and intellectual property law, involving leading experts and practitioners.

Marina Rozhkova

President of IP CLUB, Holder of a Higher Doctorate in Law

Marina Rozhkova

President of IP CLUB, Holder of a Higher Doctorate in Law

Marina Rozhkova was born on July 23, 1969.

Currently she is one of the leading Russian experts in the field of digital law and intellectual property law, as well as civil law, civil procedure, arbitration and conciliation procedures, international law in terms of human rights protection. She specializes in issues of legal protection of commercial organizations and entrepreneurs, and is the author of about 400 published works.

Marina Rozhkova currently holds the status of chief researcher of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, scientific adviser to the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the State Academic University of Humanities, member of the Expert Council of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications.