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Demyan Kudryavtsev

Demyan Kudryavtsev is a Russian media manager and entrepreneur who led the Kommersant publishing house and became owner of the Vedomosti newspaper.

born 1971Founding DeltathreeHeading Kommersant Publishing HouseOwning the Vedomosti newspaper

Born: 17 December 1971, Saint Petersburg
Occupation: poet, entrepreneur, publisher, media manager
Founded: Deltathree (1996)

Demyan Kudryavtsev was born in 1971 in Saint Petersburg

Demyan Kudryavtsev was born in Leningrad in the USSR in 1971. He studied journalism at Leningrad State University.

He moved to Israel in 1990 and became an Israeli citizen. He earned a second degree in philology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed military service. In Israel he started business projects, among them the internet telephony startup Deltathree.

He returned to Russia and in 1995 co-founded the internet provider Cityline, which was sold to Golden Telecom in 2001. He became a close aide to Boris Berezovsky, worked on the Unity party campaign in 1999 and wrote speeches for Vladimir Putin in 2000. He managed media assets of Berezovsky and later followed him to London.

In 2006 he became director general of the Kommersant publishing house and stayed until 2012. He launched the Kommersant FM radio station and separated the online edition into its own project.

In 2015 he and partners bought the Russian assets of Sanoma, including a share in Vedomosti. By the end of that year he was the full owner of Vedomosti.