Eastern European media changes newsletter 79

Editorial changes at Ukrainian weekly newspaper Kommentarii

Tatiana Mokrotovarova has been appointed editor-in-chief of Ukrainian weekly newspaper Kommentarii. She has taken over as the editor, after its former editor Vadim Denisenko left the newspaper.
The weekly Kommentarii has been published by Evolution Media since 2005 in Russian and Ukrainian languages with the circulation of 60,000 copies and covers political and business life in Ukraine.

Tatiana Mokrotovarova can be reached by email at t.mokrotovarova@e-media.com.ua.


Source: http://comments.ua/life/382535-obedinennuyu-redaktsiyu.html


A motoring magazine ceased in Czech Republic

Czech publisher Bauer Media Praha has stopped publishing its motoring magazine Autocar. It has been published since 2002, initially as a weekly and then as a monthly publication.

Source: http://www.mediar.cz/bauer-media-po-koupi-stratosfery-prestala-vydavat-casopis-autocar/

A new political magazine to appear in Poland

A new Polish political weekly magazine Do Rzeczy will start in February 2013. The editor-in-chief Paweł Lisicki will lead the editorial team and it has been announced that the first issue will be issued on 100 pages with 200,000 copies' circulation.
The magazine will be found on their website: http://www.dorzeczy.pl and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TygodnikDoRzeczy.

Source:  http://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/do-rzeczy-to-tytul-wyrazisty-ale-konserwatywny

A new radio network Croatian CityCombi (CCC) launched in Croatia 

 Croatian radio stations Radio 101, Domaći radio, Radio Mrežnica and Hit radio has signed an agreement to start a radio network called Croatian CityCombi. 

Source:  http://www.radio101.hr/news.php?id=170406


Russian travel magazine with a new editor-in-chief

Alexander Monakhov has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Russian travel magazine Vokrug Sveta. He has moved from his editorial position at Russian TV guide Antenna-Telesem. Apart from Vogrug Sveta he will also edit its website and the magazine Nauka v fokuse. Alexander Monakhov and the editorial team can be contacted on vokrugsveta@vokrugsveta.ru.


 Source: http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/company/news/?item_id=2221

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Gleb Bryanski appointed editor-in-chief of Russian economics news agency Prime
 

Gleb Bryanski has been appointed editor-in-chief of Russian economics news agency Prime. Prior to this he was a reporter at Thomson Reuters in Moscow. The news team of Prime agency can be reached at mail@1prime.ru.  



Source: http://prime.ria.ru/Service_cos/20121203/757076133.html  


Russian publisher C-Media made changes in the format of its magazines
 

Russian publisher Media holding C-Media has announced that Empire magazine will still appear in 2013 in both print and electronic formats, but the magazine Hi-Fi.ru will be available only in electronic format.  

Source: http://www.cmedia-online.ru/news/286-c-media.html  






Business newspaper in Russian St.Petersburg shuts down

Russian regional edition RBK Daily v Sankt Peterburge has been shut down. It appeared daily with 10,000 copies' circulation. The online edition is still available at http://top.rbc.ru/spb_daily.  





Source: http://www.lenizdat.ru/a0/ru/pm1/c-1109282-0.html  



Polish cultural magazine Arcana with a new editor

Prof. Krzysztof Szczerski joins Polish bi-monthly cultural magazine Arcana as its editor in January 2012. The former editors Andrzej Nowak and Maciej Urbanowski left in December. The new editor and editorial team can be contacted on arcana@poczta.internetdsl.pl.  

Source: http://www.portal.arcana.pl/Arcana-108-wstep-i-pozegnanie,3406.html  


Editorial changes at Polish lifestyle magazine Sukses

Radoslaw Krapiec has been appointed deputy editor of Polish lifestyle Sukces magazine published by Presspublica. The magazine covers lifestyle and successful people in business, and is published with 10,965 circulation. The editorial team can be reached at listy@sukcesmagazyn.pl.  


Source: http://www.sdp.pl/taxonomy/term/7514

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 Russian motoring magazine with a new editor

 Leonid Klimanovich has been appointed editor-in-chief of Russian automobile magazine Avtomir. The magazine is published monthly with 130,000 circulation. Leonid and the editorial team can be reached at automir@burda.ru.

Ukrainian Focus magazine welcomes a new editor

 Ukrainian weekly magazine Focus and focus.ua has seen a new editor Yana Moyseyenkova joining the editorial team. Yana has moved to the title from Ukrainian business magazine Kontrakty and can be contacted on y.moyseenkova@focus.ua: http://focus.ua/economy/249064/

Focus comes out every Friday with 32,000 copies' circulation.


Moje psychologie magazine re-launched in Czech Republic

Czech publisher Mladá fronta has re-launched lifestyle magazine Moje psychologie with 45,000 circulation and Simona Matásková as its new editor.

It is a lifestyle magazine with the additional coverage of fashion and cosmetics, architecture and design, food and travel, and the focus on consumer psychology and urban life mental ilnesses.
Simona Matásková can be reached at mataskova@mf.cz.


 A new culinary magazine in Czech Republic

 The Czech publisher Sanoma Media Praha has launched a monthly recipes magazine Chuť a styl. Its editor-in-chief is Jana Zbyňková (jana.zbynkova@sanomamedia.cz), the current editor of another gastronomy magazine Kuchyně.cz.

Editorial changes at Russian Wedding magazine

Russian publisher Sanoma Independent Media has appointed Lika Dlugach the editor of bi-monthly Wedding magazine. Lika can be contacted by email on l.dlugach@imedia.ru.

Wedding magazine appears 7 times a year with 70,000 copies' circulation.

Russian agricultural magazine comes to Kazakhstan

 Russian regional publisher Svetich from Kurgan launches a new agricultural publication Agrozhizn.Rossia-Kazahkstan to be distributed in Kazakhstan: 
http://nivanews.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4746:-lr-l-r&catid=63:news&Itemid=113

The editorial team is led by the editor Marina Sevostyeva (agro45@mail.ru).

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Editorial changes at the Polish cinematographic magazine Film

 Tomasz Raczek has been appointed editor-in-chief of Polish magazine Film. It is a monthly magazine with 70,000 circulation and is published  by Media Point Group and appears since 1946. Tomasz Raczek can be reached at t.raczek@film.com.pl.

Russian health and medical magazine with a new editor

Alina Tulchnskaya leads the editorial team of Russian health magazine Zdorovie. She and her editorial team can be contacted on zdorovie@zdr.ru. The magazine has been published monthly since 1955 and currently has got circulation of 170,000 copies. It covers health, medicine, fitness, dieting ang healthy lifestyle.


New magazine launch in Czech Republic

Czech publisher ČESKÝ DOMOV has launched monthly regional magazine Naše Praha 10 with 50,000 circulation. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nasepraha10


Regional events guide comes to Russian West Siberian city Kurgan

 Russian publisher Paramon has launched the events and entertainment city guide Vybirai in Kurgan with 5,000 circulation. The director Vera Chernyaeva oversees the management of the editorial team and the magazine's distribution (vchernyaeva@arteast.ru).

 Lifestyle magazine in Czech Republic

Czech monthly lifestyle magazine Bel Mondo has been launched with 45,000 circulation in Prague by Respekt Publishing a.s. The magazine covers fashion, food and eating out, new technologies, culture and architecture. Petr Třešňák leads the editorial team and can be contacted on redakce@belmondomag.cz. The magazine can be found at http://www.belmondomag.cz or Twitter: https://twitter.com/BelMondoMag.

Katja Šeruga appointed editor-in-chief of Večer

 Katja Šeruga joins Slovenian newspaper VEČER (Maribor) as their editor-in-chief. She starts at the newspaper on November 10, moving on from POP TV (https://twitter.com/KatjaSeruga24ur).

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Online Kommersant Moldova with a new editor-in-chief

Kommersant Moldova has appointed Vladimir Solovyov,  a former political journalist at Russian daily business and economics newspaper Kommersant, as its editor-in-chief.

Kommersant.md was launched in 2010 and covers business, economics and political news. Vladimir Solovyov and the editorial team can be reached at info@kommersant.md.


Moscow News without editor-in-chief

Tim Wall resigned as editor-in-chief of The Moscow News newspaper on September 24. He has held this position for the last 4 years. The Moscow News is a Russia's English-language publication run by Russian News & Information Agency RIA Novosti. The newspaper appears 2 times a week on Tuesdays and Fridays with 52,000 copies' circulation. Wall's replacement is to be announced due course.



Watches' magazine Revolution comes to Ukraine

Ukrainian publisher Burda-Ukraina has launched a quarterly luxury magazine Revolution dedicated to watches with 5,000 circulation. The editor-in-chief is Denis Peshkov, who has also been the editor-in-chief of Russian edition of Revolution magazine since October 2007 (d.peshkov@burda.ru). The advertising FPC in Revolution costs 40000.00 UAH.


A new music business magazine in Poland

Polish publisher Iron Media has launched a music business magazine Rynek Muzyczny with 5,000 circulation (http://www.ironmedia.com.pl/czasopismo-rynek-muzyczny). The magazine will appear monthly with their plans to reach 10,000 circulation shortly. The editorial team is managed by the editor-in-chief Pawel Boron (pawel.boron@ironmedia.com.pl).

Czech publisher Stratosfera stops publishing FHM magazine

Czech publisher Stratosfera announces that the October issue of FHM magazine will be the last one of the magazine. Monthly FHM has been issued in the Czech Republic since 2008 (http://www.facebook.com/FHMcz). The readers are advised to use the online men's interest website Jenpromuze.cz, with the monthly traffic over 50,000 unique visitors.

Another regional edition of a shopping guide in Russia

 Russian monthly Shopping Guide.Ya pokupayu has been launched in Naberezhnye Chelny with 5,000 circulation. The magazine covers lifestyle, fashion, beauty and home decoration and interior design. The FPC advertising is 35000.00 RUR. The magazine is managed by its editorial director Natalia Kuvshinova (natdir@mail.ru).

Ukrainian Vogue magazine consolidates its editorial team

 Ukrainian publisher UMH group has announced about the editorial changes of a to be published in 2013 Vogue magazine. Masha Tsukanova has been appointed the editor-in-chief of Ukrainian Vogue, and Philipp Vlasov joining as a fashion director (http://ru-ru.facebook.com/philipvlasov). Apparently Julia Pelipas will be their junior fashion editor.

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 Beauty magazine Allure comes to Russia

 CondeNast Russia has launched Russian edition of a beauty magazine Allure with 180,000 circulation. The editorial team is led by Ksenia Vagner and can be contacted on allure@condenast.ru. The magazine can be found on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AllureRussia and Twitter: https://twitter.com/AllureRussia. 


Changes at Czech business magazine Profit

Czech economics and financial magazine Profit has become a bi-weekly supplement to E15 newspaper and is published now by Mlada Fronta. It is available now at http://euro.e15.cz/profit. Profit has been published in Czech Republic since 1990. The editor-in-chief is Martin Zika, who can be reached at zika@mf.cz.


Russian women's magazine Mini with a new editor

Ekaterina Travinskaya (e.travinskaya@burda.ru) has moved from Joy to edit Russian women's magazine Mini.  It is a glossy magazine for young women 25-35 years of age and covers lifestyle and showbiz, stylish clothes, fashion and beauty, relations and a successful career. It appears monthly since 2002 and is published by Hubert Burda Media Russia.

 Olga Lopteva has become a new editor-in-chief of Russian Joy

 Olga Lopteva leads the editorial team of Joy magazine published by Hubert Burda Media Russia. She can be contacted on o.lopteva@burda.ru. Joy is a monthly glossy women's magazine about lifestyle and fashion trends, covering celebrities, beauty and fashion. Olga Lopteva has been working at the publishing house Burda since June 2007. Until February 2012 Olga was the executive editor of the magazine Joy, then became the deputy editor at the title. She graduated from the Moscow State Printing University with the specialty Publishing and Editing: http://www.burda.ru/PressRelease.aspx?infoid=5dd91ea8-11d0-4b0b-b7cd-cc3924df86e9


Quarterly glossy lifestyle magazine Muslim Magazine launched in Russia

Muslim magazine is a Russian fashion and lifestyle magazine for modern Muslims, covering travel, entertainment and arts. Includes original collections and current trends, news from the world of film and literature, food experience and the most beautiful places on the planet. The director Islam Amerkhanov and editorial team can be contacted on editorial@muslimmagazine.ru.


Latvian publisher Rīgas Viļņi launched OK! magazine

OK! magazine appears now weekly in Latvia and targets modern women with celebrities' interviews and life stories, covering beauty and fitness, fashion, health, diet and the latest gossip. The magazine is published with 20,000 copies' circulation. Zita Ramma is the editor-in-chief at the title and can be reached at ok@rigasvilni.lv or Twitter: @ZitaRamma.

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New editor at a Polish ecology and lifestyle magazine

Agnieszka Szulim has been appointed the editor-in-chief of e!stilo - Polish lifestyle and ecology magazine published by Estilopress. Shulim and her editorial team can be reached at redakcja@estilopress.com.
The magazine covers healthy way of life, fashion and beauty, new trends in eco living, healthy food and travel.
The magazine can be followed on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/estilopress.


A new interior design magazine in Poland

 Bi-lingual (Polish and English) interior design, fashion and cultural magazine Home Mag launched in Poland with 15,000 circulation.The magazine is published by Home Fashion Design&Media and Media Express Metrio Publishing. The editorial team is led by Hubert Kropski and can be contacted on redakcja@home-mag.eu (http://home-mag.eu).


Metal Hammer has come to Bulgaria

  Metal Hammer has appeared in Bulgaria, with its second issue out on July 27. The editor Stoyan Tsonev and the editorial team can be reached at info@metalhammer.bg and the magazine will be later available on their website: http://www.metalhammer.bg. Follow them on Twitter: @MetalHammerBG and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetalHammerBulgaria.


A new daily newspaper started in Montenegro

Serbian publishing house Ringier Axel Springer has launched a daily tabloid Blic Crna Gora in Montenegro.
The editor-in-chief of the newspaper is Radmilo Tadić and the deputy editor Slađan Blagojević manage the editorial team. The newspaper covers local politics, culture, economics and sports and has daily circulation of 10,000 copies. The cover price is 0,30 EUR.

Tractor-producing plant started a magazine

Kirovets Review, a quarterly magazine launched in Russia this month. The trade magazine covers the history of the factory, new tractor models and their reviews, and business developments. It is published by MediaLine Severo-Zapad with 3,000 copies. The editorial team is led by the editor Sergey Rostov (Sergey.Rostov@tdmkz.kzgroup.ru).