Kommersant

The TNS Media and NRS Russia certified July 2013 circulation of the daily was 120,000–130,000.

Kommersant

Front page on 27 December 2010
Type	Daily newspaper
Owner(s)	Alisher Usmanov
Founder(s)	Vladimir Yakovlev
Editor-in-chief	Vladimir Zhelonkin
Founded	1989; 35 years ago (1989)
Language	Russian
Headquarters	Moscow
Circulation	120,000–130,000 (July 2013)
ISSN	1561-347X (print) 1563-6380 (web)
OCLC number	244126120
Website	www.kommersant.ru

It is widely considered to be one of Russia's three main business dailies (together with Vedomosti and RBK Daily).

The original Kommersant newspaper was established in Moscow in 1909, but was shut down by the Bolsheviks following the October Revolution in 1917.

In 1989, with the onset of press freedom in Russia, Kommersant was relaunched under the ownership of businessman and publicist Vladimir Yakovlev. The first issue was released in January 1990. It was modeled after Western business journalism.

The newspaper's title is spelled in Russian with a terminal hard sign (ъ) – a letter that is silent at the end of a word in modern Russian, and was thus largely abolished by the post-revolution Russian spelling reform, in reference to the original Kommersant. This is played up in the Kommersant logo, which features a script hard sign at the end of somewhat more formal font. The newspaper also refers to itself or its redaction as "Ъ".

Founded as a weekly newspaper, it became popular among business and political elites. It then became a daily newspaper in 1992. It was owned by the businessman Boris Berezovsky from 1999 until 2006, when he sold it to Badri Patarkatsishvili. In September 2006, it was sold to Alisher Usmanov.

In January 2005, Kommersant published a protest at a court ruling ordering it to publish a denial of a story about a crisis at Alfa-Bank.

In 2008, BBC News named Kommersant one of Russia's leading liberal business broadsheets.