Russia Business Directory

Printed media

Argumenty i Fakty - the weekly newspaper leads the national press, with 36 % of the polled readership, and is the most popular among people with college and university degrees and those in managerial occupations. The company “Argumenty i fakty” is the publishing house which publishes 9 newspapers and 6 magazines (rus)

Izvestia (News) - the respectable daily newspaper is a pronounced preference in cultural, research and business circles, 35 out of a hundred political activist pollees are also its regular readers (rus)

Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online- Commersant Publishing House is among the leaders of Russian mass media. At present the full list of its editions comprises: Kommersant Daily, St. Petersburg-Kommersant Daily, Kommersant-Vlast Analytical Weekly, Kommersant-Dengi Economic Weekly, Autopilot Automobile Monthly. The readership of our printed editions is over 1 million. More than 18 000 unique users visit out Internet editions daily (rus/eng)

Moskovsky Komsomolets a Moscow daily newspaper, is second in popularity, with a huge number of subscribers and sells like hotcakes on the newsstands, covering general news (rus)

The Moscow Times- is Russia's premier English-language newspaper, offering advertisers the country's largest English-language business audience. offers its readers, both Russian and foreign citizens, an independent and precise view of the political, economic and business life of the country. Our correspondents travel throughout the city and regions, meeting with businessmen and legislators, politicians and common citizens, is published Monday – Friday (eng)

Nezavisimaya Gazeta – an influential privately-owned daily (50 000). Nezavisimaja gazeta Publishing House publishes 9 newspapers and the literary essayistics, poetry, literary memoirs, biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, intellectual novels etc. (rus)

Trud (Labour) - daily newspaper especially popular among trade unions and blue collar workers. It is centrist, and owned largely by Gazprom (rus)

Rossiiskaya Gazeta - published by the new Russian state. It is intended for the general reader, embracing everything from daily news, special reports and interviews of government officials to expert commentaries on documents of state. Their circulation exceeds 400,000. According to the polls, most of our readers are even-tempered adults inclined to conservative views (rus)

Publishing houses

Gazprom-Media - est. in 1998, one of the largest media holdings in Russia and Europe, owned by Gazprom, controlling three television companies, five radio stations, publishing house, magazines, newspapers and cinemas. In 2006 its total revenues reached USD 800 mn, a 32% increase from 2006 (eng)

Independent Media Sanoma Magazines -  is the biggest Russian Publishing House, was founded in 1992. It publishes more than 30 magazines and newspapers in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Among them are: Harper`s Bazaar, Men's Health, Yes!, newspapers The Moscow Times and Vedomosti (eng/rus).

Prof-Media - est in 1997 for the purpose of exercising strategic management over media stakes owned by Interros company. It is Russia'slargest diversified media holding. The holding"s combined revenue in 2006 was about USD400m (eng)

ASMO-press Media Holding  - in its publishing activity the holding closely with the legislative and executive authorities of the Russian Federation and fulfils the orders of various government offices. They publish almanacs about the business in Russia and Russian business. A special place belongs to exclusive copies of the almanacs that are made in the best Russian traditions of publishing of rare books (eng)

Food industry, Publishing house (Moscow) presents a series of journals devoted to different branches of food industry. In our journals directors of enterprises can find useful and urgent information on important issues of economy, management and law, and technologists and specialists get to know new technologies, equipment, raw materials and additives (rus)

Maximov's Companions - his empire consisted of more than 800 publishing houses, newspapers and magazines worldwide. Both had publishing experience, Maximov - in Russia, Maxwells- abroad. Now "Maximov Companion" cooperates with three publishing houses in Russia and creates business and political directories with contact information across Russia. The series contains 25 editions - 12 political and 13 industrial directories. "Maximov Publications" brand confidently dominates on the market of Russian business directories (B2B) at the moment (eng/rus)

Neft i Kapital - Publishing House and information company offering a whole range of services for of O&G and energy industry: the Neft i Kapital (Oil & Capital) magazine, Tekhnologii TEK (Technologies for Fuel and Energy Industries) magazine, the statistical bulletin Neftyanaya Torgovlya (Oil Trade) (eng/rus)

Publishing house Piter (Sankt-Petersburg) is the largest in Russia publishing house specialized in professional literature. There are 7 editorial teams: computer, economic, medical, psychological, juridical, popular and Web-editorial team. "Piter" actively develops new information internet-projects, books of publishing house can be bought in e-shop (eng).

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