NGO Cosmos has been captured by the people involved in scandals with offshore salaries and bribery of Forbes.
Prior to that, it had problems with payment of the license royalties to Forbes Media, and the magazine staff lost their medical insurance.
Regina von Flemming has officially announced her quit from the publishing house Axel Springer Russia. One of the possible candidates for the post of general director is Natalia Gandurina, who now heads Russia Jalou Media Group.
In September 2015, the Russian Forbes changed the owner; it was Alexander Fedotov, the owner of the publishing house Artkom media. Fedotov told RBC what changes awaited Forbes and why he did not consider his media business unprofitable
German media group Axel Springer leaves Russia: the entire local business, the main asset of which is the Russian version of Forbes, was sold to Alexander Fedotov, the publisher of L'Officiel, SNC, Numero and Golf Digest magazines.