Vladimir Yakovlev (journalist)

Vladimir was born into the family of the famous Soviet journalist Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev.

He graduated from the International Division of the School of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Yakovlev was placed on a job in the Newspaper Soviet Russia. He then went on to work in the Magazine Rabotnitsa, the Sobesednik Weekly. Up to 1988 Yakovlev was a correspondent of Ogoniok Magazine.{{cite web|url=http://www.ria.ru/spravka_society/20111213/515482988.html|title=Издательский дом "Коммерсантъ". Справка|date=13 December 2011|website=Ria.ru|access-date=11 August 2017}}[http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/gazetaru-editor-to-run-kommersant/409143.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508040403/http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/gazetaru-editor-to-run-kommersant/409143.html |date=2011-05-08 }}

Since June 15, 1988 Yakovlev was a founder and a president of Fakt informational cooperative society{{cite web|url=http://bprw.ru/en/Archive/2008/speakers-2008/390|title=Baltic Weekend - Andrey Vasiliev|website=bprw.ru|access-date=11 August 2017}} (it was created in cooperation with Gleb Pavlovsky). Originally, the organization was created in the format of an information and reference service in order to “provide its potential readers – members of the booming cooperative movement – with facts: contact details, references, texts of regulatory acts and documents”.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

In 1989 at the suggestion of the vice-president of Fakt, the USSR cooperators’ union, Artem Tarasov{{cite web|url=http://ria.ru/spravka/20100625/250321720.html|title=Главные редакторы газеты "КоммерсантЪ-Daily"|date=25 June 2010|website=Ria.ru|access-date=11 August 2017}} Yakovlev together with Gleb Pavlovsky started an independent news agency and newspaper Kommersant.[http://www.openspace.ru/media/net/details/36463/?attempt=1] {{dead link|date=August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sostav.ru/news/2012/04/27/kommersant_pavel_filenkov/|title=ИД "Коммерсантъ" возглавил Павел Филенков|website=Sostav.ru|access-date=11 August 2017}} The pilot issue of the weekly newspaper was in December 1989.

From 1989 up to 1999 Yakovlev was the owner and editor-in-chief of Kommersant Newspaper, which was the basis of the homonymous publishing house.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc-y/18827322 |access-date=2012-07-12 }} Since 1992 Yakovlev, being the majority shareholder, took up a post as CEO of Kommersant Joint-Stock Company (up to 1992 Vladimir was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper).

Simultaneously, Yakovlev was engaged in various projects such as Domovoy Magazine, together with V. D. Drannikov, a famous journalist, but none became as famous as Kommersant.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

In 1999 the majority of shares of Kommersant publishing house were purchased by Boris Berezovsky{{cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/AG08Ag01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000925124621/http://atimes.com/c-asia/AG08Ag01.html|url-status=unfit|archive-date=25 September 2000|title=Asia Times: Kazakhstan suspends launches from Baikonur|website=Atimes.com|access-date=11 August 2017}}[http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=559606] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305071849/http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=559606 |date=2016-03-05 }} and Badri Patarkatsishvili through the American Capital Group.[http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnewstt_news=12184&tx_ttnewsbackPid=213] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160902144658/http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1 |date=2016-09-02 }} Kommersant Newspaper, Dengi, Vlast, Ogoniok, Autopilot, Sekret Firmy, Weekend, Citizen K. Magazines, Kommersant FM Radio station and Kommersant TV Channel were among the assets of the publishing group.[http://forsmi.ru/node/58071] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513232757/http://forsmi.ru/node/58071 |date=2012-05-13 }}

In 2007 Yakovlev became the CEO of Stream Continent Company, which was a content agency for cable television (an affiliate of Sistema Analytical finance company,[http://www.kommersant.com/p748505/r_500/Kommersant_Founder_TV_Sistema/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040115/http://www.kommersant.com/p748505/r_500/Kommersant_Founder_TV_Sistema/ |date=2016-03-04 }} currently Stream Channel Joint-Stock Company).[http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/865130/kommersant_founder_tapped_to_head_zao_stream_content/] {{dead link|date=August 2017}}

Since 2007 Yakovlev was a member of the board of directors of Sistemy mass media, an affiliate of Sistema Analytical finance company, and in the same year he founded Content bureau.

In 2008 together with Mikhail Prokhorov he created Zhivi! Media group.[http://themoscownews.com/business/20111028/189161881.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818134230/http://themoscownews.com/business/20111028/189161881.html |date=2012-08-18 }}{{cite web|url=http://en.ria.ru/russia/20111212/170191873.html|title=Profile: Mikhail Prokhorov|last=Sputnik|website=en.ria.ru|date=12 December 2011|access-date=11 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/oligarchs-and-absinthe-shots/|title=Oligarchs and Absinthe Shots|first=Sam|last=Dolnick|website=City Room|date=29 October 2010|access-date=11 August 2017}} The goal of the company was “launching and managing innovative media projects”.{{cite web|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc-y/1847983|title=Николай Усков пересядет в кресло "Сноба"|date=1 September 2012|website=Kommersant.ru|access-date=11 August 2017|via=Kommersant}} Vladimir Yakovlev's Content bureau LLC was a parent company,{{cite web|url=http://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/|title=Ежедневная деловая газета РБК - главные новости дня в России и в мире|website=Газета РБК|access-date=11 August 2017}} while ONEXIM company had 90% of the shares. The main projects of the company was Zhivi! (a project promoting a healthy lifestyle), including a homonymous channel, web-site and club; F5 (a newspaper and a web-site), Russian Pioneer Magazine{{cite web|url=http://www.sostav.ru/news/2012/01/11/s2/|title=Телеканал "Дождь" прекратил переговоры с Михаилом Прохоровым|website=Sostav.ru|access-date=11 August 2017}} and Snob Magazine (a project invented by Yakovlev{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704621204575487701028801996|title=Russian Snob Lands in New York|first=Russell|last=Adams|date=13 September 2010|access-date=11 August 2017|website=Wsj.com}}). In 2009-2010 Snob expanded to the UK and USA[http://themoscownews.com/business/20110916/189048700.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719153034/http://themoscownews.com/business/20110916/189048700.html |date=2012-07-19 }} with availability via Barnes & Noble and regional hubs. Prokhorov invested $150 million in the launch of the magazine and website targeting highly paid professionals.{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/66287/index3.html|title=Klub Prokhorov|website=NYMag.com|date=28 May 2010 |access-date=11 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rich-idUSL2353388420080423|title=Russian billionaire to set up magazine for snobs|date=23 April 2008|website=Reuters.com|access-date=11 August 2017|via=Reuters}}

At the end of 2011, Yakovlev stepped down as an editor-in-chief of the Snob project and president of the Zhivi! Media group.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/15/black-hole-rebecca-mead|title=Black Hole|magazine=The New Yorker|date=8 November 2010|access-date=11 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1122/focus-mikhail-prokhorov-snob-magazine-tongue-tied.html|title=Tongue-Tied|first=Jeff|last=Bercovici|date=4 November 2010|website=Forbes.com|access-date=11 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1805039/|title="Сноб" лишается главного|first=Мария|last=Макутина|date=28 October 2011|website=Kommersant.ru|access-date=11 August 2017|via=Kommersant}} Nikolai Uskov (Russian GQ) became the head of the company.{{cite web|url=http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?story_id=35000&action_id=2|title=The Moscow Times — News, Business, Culture & Events|website=Sptimes.ru|access-date=11 August 2017}}

In 2010, Yakovlev signed an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation asking for the quickest solving of crimes against journalists.{{cite web|url=http://www.rb.ru/article/eshhe-odin-jurnalist-izbit-v-podmoskove/6575897.html|title=Еще один журналист избит в Подмосковье - Rusbase|website=Rb.ru|date=8 November 2010 |access-date=11 August 2017}}[http://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/30058/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224213632/http://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/30058/ |date=2013-02-24 }} Editors-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Forbes.ru, Russkiy Reporter and others also signed the open letter.

In 2011, Yakovlev officially came down on the side of journalist Maxim Kovalskiy. According to Yakovlev, the journalist was fired for writing an article “which the government wouldn’t have liked”.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/russianow/culture/8059266/Snob-interview-with-Masha-Gessen-deputy-editor-in-chief-of-Russian-media-project.html3|title=Telegraph|website=The Telegraph|access-date=11 August 2017}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/250972/|title=Создателю "Коммерсанта" стыдно за Усманова|last=ntv.ru|website=НТВ|access-date=11 August 2017}}

In May 2012, Yakovlev started a new project called The age of happiness. It is dedicated to active ageing and is bilingual (Russian/English) {{cite web|url=http://ageofhappiness.ru/|title=Возраст счастья. Проект Владимира Яковлева|website=ageofhappiness.ru|access-date=11 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707090206/http://www.ageofhappiness.ru/|archive-date=2014-07-07|url-status=dead}}

Yakovlev is thought to be the author of New Russians and Global Russians{{cite web|url=http://www.telekritika.ua/daidzhest/2008-10-31/41662|title=Владимир Яковлев: "Сноб" — это не шлягерная журналистика|website=Telekritika.ua|access-date=11 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://newsreaders.ru/showthread.php?t=1436|title=Глеб Павловский - Новости, статьи, видео - общественно-политический форум Политбюро.|website=newsreaders.ru|access-date=11 August 2017|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214020/http://newsreaders.ru/showthread.php?t=1436|url-status=dead}} clichés.

Yakovlev is one of the Perestroika publicists who created the "Russian newspeak" of the 90's:{{cite web|url=http://www.russiancinema.ru/template.php?dept_id=3&e_dept_id=5&e_chrdept_id=4&e_chr_id=2270&chr_year=1987|title=Энциклопедия отечественного кино|website=Russiancinema.ru|access-date=11 August 2017}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

«This new generation – mostly the children of the men of the 60’s such as Vladimir Yakovlev, Artyom Borovik, Dmitry Lihanov, Yevgeny Dodolev, Alexander Lyubimov – are already taking their course. Being those of the gilded youth, having been brought up in huge apartments or having spent their childhood abroad, having graduated from the international division of the School of Journalism of Moscow State University, they now make a difference on the television and mass media. The perfect takeoff and innate lack of fear allows them to remove taboos and visit all the hot spots where no Soviet journalist had been before»

Yakovlev received a letter of acknowledgment from the President of the Russian Federation on June 25, 1996, for active involvement of organization and conducting of the election company of the President of the Russian Federation in 1996.{{Cite web|url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=73305&PSC=1&PT=3&Page=1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710234201/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=73305&PSC=1&PT=3&Page=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-10|title = Президент России}}

He is nominated man of the year in Journalism according to the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia.{{cite web|url=http://www.aen.ru/index.php?page=article&category=sketches&article_id=877|title=Агентство Еврейских Новостей Главные новости|website=Aen.ru|access-date=11 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811221942/http://www.aen.ru/index.php?page=article&category=sketches&article_id=877|archive-date=11 August 2017|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

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