A bill limiting the participation of foreign capital in the Russian media on Friday may be adopted in the second and the third and final reading. Profile committee on information policy recommended the adoption of the document without significant amendments. The law will stop the practice of buying up regional political media large holdings with foreign participation, insist the authors of the project. As found RBC, they are referring to holding Hearst Shkulev Media.
The State Duma Committee on Information Policy on Thursday approved amendments to the bill, is limited to 20% maximum share of foreign capital in the Russian media. Of the nine amendments recommended to take only one significant – from the application of the law will be withdrawn media created on the basis of international agreements, for example TV “Peace” and broadcaster of the Union of Russia and Belarus, said earlier RBC First Deputy Chairman Leonid Levin .
On Friday scheduled the second reading of the bill, the same day Levine, he said, intends to ask the House to adopt the document and in the third and final reading – Committee supported this intention. Amendment Communist MP Oleg Smolin, exempting from the operation of the law cultural, scientific, educational, sports, children’s media, the Committee rejected – it promised to be further discussed and possibly made into a separate bill. The law must be taken as soon as possible, to the owners of the media had more time to prepare for its entry into force, said Levin. According to him, the law does not prohibit any foreign media, no interaction with them – only changes the structure of the business.
In the early adoption of the law on Thursday expressed participated in the first autumn meeting of the Public Chamber of her secretary Alexander Brechalov and CEO MIA “Russia Today” Dmitry Kiselev. “This law – an obvious thing, it’s common sense – Kiselev said, answering the question of RBC. – There is no damage in the information space of Russia will not suffer. I do not know that we will lose. In Russia, there is an information war, it is a fact. And with the help of foreign media inside of us held a split. ”
«I am for even more speedy adoption of these amendments, – told RBC Brechalov. – We like to compare ourselves with Europe and the United States. In the United States limiting the participation of foreign capital is, in Germany too rigid restrictions. We have given, as required by our creative class, media law to the international standard. As secretary of the Public Chamber can responsibly say that we have many designs in the form of non-profit organizations or the media, which are financed not always transparent institutions and individuals who are targeted action on the destruction of Russia ».
“We can not ignore»
The law will limit the influence of foreign owners in the Russian media and, consequently, on the minds of the Russians, hoping to first deputy chairman of the committee, co-author Vadim Dengin of the Liberal Democratic Party. Some large media holdings with foreign participation, which came to Russia from the glossy magazines, buying regional editions, unrelated to the gloss, not for the first time, said at the committee meeting on Thursday Dengin, justifying the need for the law. The MP does not believe that this is done to continue apolitical issue of glossy magazines. Dengina position supported against buying non glossy Russian editions foreign holdings and Levin: “We can not ignore.”
Names holdings Dengin not result, RBC call them he also refused. This one holding – Hearst Shkulev Media, said RBC, a source close to the leadership of the State Duma. Second Duma spokesman confirmed: we are talking about this holding with American participation.
In ID Hearst Shkulev Media owns 50% of American Hearst Corp., 50% – Russian businessman Viktor Shkuleva. Holding owns a network of Internet portals in 13 cities. In it, in particular, includes the Yekaterinburg’s e1.ru, Nizhny Novgorod nn.ru, Permian prm.ru, Samara samara24.ru, as well as the Siberian network ngs.ru, presented in Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk.
Measurements TNS show that the members of the regional network Hearst Shkulev Digital Internet portals are very popular in their cities. In Yekaterinburg, the monthly audience e1.ru, according to August, reaching almost 563 thousand. Persons 12-64 years of age. For comparison, a similar attendance Yekaterinburg homepage Mail.ru – 501 thousand. “Yandex” – almost 600 tys.Vystupaya on Thursday evening at a meeting of publishers and advertising agencies, Shkulev hastened to reassure advertisers that although the law is really bad for the industry, he expects on the adoption of mitigation amendments in the coming year. Most foreign publishers have experience in similar conditions, he added, for example, Conde Nast and Hearst are working in China. This is a problem of shareholders – how to keep its holding of an asset on the business change will not affect promised Shkulev.
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