Expert (Russian magazine)

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March 3 2008 edition of Expert

Expert or Ekspert magazine (Russian: Журнал "Эксперт"). Russia's leading business weekly magazine, established in 1995 in Moscow by a group of editors and journalists who departed from Kommersant publishing house. Covers economics & finance, Russian business, international business, politics, science and technology, culture and arts. Currently it is part of Expert Group, a publishing, conference and research business based in Moscow.

1 Key facts
2 Specialised and regional publications
3 Person of the Year
4 Business model
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Key facts

Languages: Russian, English (web-only).
Pages: 96-160.
Circulation: 90,000 copies (some issues - up to 150,000 copies)
Readership: ~250,000.
Ownership: group of editors (majority stake), Oleg Deripaska (minority stake).
Editor: Valery Fadeyev.

[edit] Specialised and regional publications

Expert Severo-Zapad (Northwestern region) - since 1999
Expert Ural - since 2000
Expert Sibir’ (Siberia and Far East) - since 2003
Expert Kazakhstan - since 2003
Expert Ukraina (Ukraine) - since 2004
Expert Volga - since 2005
D` (personal finance magazine) - since 2006
Expert Yug (South) - since 2007
Russkiy Reporter (Russian Reporter general news weekly) - since 2007

[edit] Person of the Year

Since 2002 Expert nominates a Person of the Year (Expert magazine) - one or several individuals who significanly influenced economic, business, political or societal development in Russia. 'Person of the Year' is nominated in the final issue each year (#48 or #49, always end of December). Since the first announcement all 'Persons of the Year' were nationals of the Russian Federation. The nomination is similar to Person of the Year by the US Time magazine; the cover of the magazine always features 'Person of the Year'.

Year	Choice	Age	Notes
2002	Alexander Khloponin	37	First person chosen, Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (since 2002), former chairman of the board of Norilsk Nickel. Chosen for transition from business to the government, seen to set example for the new Russian elite
2003	Roman Abramovich and Mikhail Khodorkovsky	37 and 40	Key shareholders of (correspondingly) Sibneft and Yukos oil companies. Both men were hailed for adapting best corporate governance policies to run their companies efficiently and profitably.
2004	Mikhail Fradkov	54	Russian Prime Minister in 2004-2007.
2005	Dmitry Medvedev and Alexei Miller	40 and 43	Correspondingly Gazprom's chairman of the board (since 2002) and CEO (since 2001).
2006	Sergey Lavrov	56	Russian Foreign Minister (since 2004)
2007	Vladimir Putin	55	Russian President (since 2000)

[edit] Business model

According to general director Valery Fadeyev, Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska has offered to set up a media holding named after the magazine "when Expert has grown to the need of developing a business".^[1]