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''Kommersant'' (. As of 2005, the circulation was 131,000. The newspaper was initially published in 1909, and it was closed down following the Bolshevik seizure of power and the introduction of censorship in 1919. In 1990, with the onset of press freedom in Russia, Kommersant was re-established under the ownership of businessman and publicist Vladimir Yakovlev . To make the point that the publication had outlasted the Soviet regime, "Kommersant" is spelled in Russian with a terminal Hard Sign (ъ) -- a diacritical mark that was abolished by the post-revolution Russian Spelling Reform . This is played up in the Kommersant logo, which features a script hard sign at the end of somewhat more formal font. In . Berezovsky Kommersant's director-general, Andrei Vassiliev, and editor-in-chief,Alexander Stukalin, on 14 July 2005 – in a move widely seen as preparation for the 2008 Russian Presidential Elections . In January 2005 it published blank pages as a protest at a court ruling ordering it to publish a denial of a story about a crisis at Alfa Bank . The sole article in the paper was this one, publish upside down, on the front page. The headline of the article was "Full Plaintiff" (полный истец) which has little meaning, but rhymes with a Russian Swear Word , meaning "complete disaster" (пиздец). London-resident Berezovsky sold the Kommersant publishing house to an old friend and business partner, Georgian fruit canner and opposition television station owner . In August . After clashing with Usmanov, Kommersant editor-in-chief Vladislav Borodulin quit.[http://www.editorsweblog.org/print_newspapers/2006/10/russia_kommersant_editor_quits.php/ ''Kommersant editor quits''– Editors Weblog, World Association of Newspapers, 2 October 2006]. quoting the Associated Press].Retrieved on ./ref> Kommersant remains somewhat of a rarity in President . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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