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Russian business radio station Finam FM with a new editor

Ekaterina Romanova has become a new director/editor-in-chief of Russian Finam FM radio station, after its founder and director Oleg Romanov left the station.


Finam FM started broadcasting in 2008 with business news and classic rock. Ekaterina Romanova and the editorial team can be contacted on press@finam.fm.

Russian Playboy welcomes a new editor-in-chief

Russian publishing house Burda has appointed Alexey Korolev the editor-in-chief of Russian edition of Playboy magazine. He has replaced Vlad Ivanenko on this position, who will concentrate on Ukrainian edition of Playboy magazine.

Russian Playboy comes out monthly since 2002. Korolev and the editorial team can be reached at playboy@burda.ru.




Editorial changes at Czech weekly magazine Tyden

Martin Hekrdla has recently joined Czech magazine Tyden as its commentator, Josef Kolina is responsible now for the coverage of transport issues, and Jakub Kalensky covers home affairs, politics and current news. Prior to this Jakub Kalensky has worked at Lidove noviny, Hospodarske noviny and Czech TV.
Josef Kolina has also moved on from Lidove Noviny, where he has written about motoring and transport. Martin Hekrdla has written in the past for Listy, ZN Noviny and has been a poltical commentator at Pravo.

Please check out our Slavicmediaonline.com for full details on editorial contacts.

A new volleyball magazine on Polish market

A new Polish monthly volleyball magazine called Nowa Siatkowka will be launched next week with 10,000 copies. At the moment they can be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/NowaSiatkowka.

It will be published by the publishing house Sport and the editorial team will be led by Agnieszka Garbacik.








The UK magazine Granta comes to Bulgaria

First issue of a literature magazine Granta Bulgaria will be published in Bulgaria in May 2012 and will be edited by Svetlozar Zhelev.
The magazine will also contain works of contemporary Bulgarian writers. The magazine can be currently found on Facebook on http://bg-bg.facebook.com/grantabg. The director and editor-in-chief Svetlozar Zhelev can be contacted on svetlyo@ciela.net.







Ukrainian magazine Elle has got its own website

The Ukrainian website Elle.com.ua for the Elle magazine launched on March 1.

The website contains fashion news and beauty trends of the season, reports from the fashion weeks, beauty-and-shopping, reviews, video shows, backstage, exclusive photo shoots, parties and celebrities, cultural events and travel.

Anna Medvedeva, the director of the online project, can be reached at Amedvedeva@elle.com.ua.

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Russian national weekly Delovoy Vtornik has been re-named for Novy Vtornik

The newspaper covers the current social, political and economic issues, and what is happening in the country.

New Tuesday comes out as supplement to regional newspapers, and focuses on quality journalism covering various topics.
The newspaper is published in all eight federal regions of Russian Federation with the circulation of 550,000 copies per week.

Its editor Leonid Arikh and the editorial team can be reached at vtornik@nvtornik.ru.

Editorial changes at Czech economics weekly magazine

Lukas Kovanda has been recently appointed Deputy Editor at Czech economics weekly Profit. He has moved from his position of chief economics analyst at weekly magazine Tyden. http://profit.tyden.cz/clanek/zastupcem-sefredaktora-casopisu-profit-se-stal-lukas-kovanda/

Profit comes out weekly with the audited circulation of 20,467 copies.

The editorial team of the magazine can be contacted on redakce@profit.cz.











Polish Newsweek has got a new Editor-in-Chief

Tomasz Lis has been appointed to lead editorial team of Polish Newsweek, and Aleksandra Karasinska has joined the title as his deputy editor.

Newsweek Polska is published weekly by Ringier Axel Springer Polska. Tomasz Lis has replaced its former editor Wojciech Maziarski on the editorial position, who left the title.

Tomasz Lis started his career in 1990 in the TV news programme at TVP. In the years 1994-1997 he was Washington correspondent for Polish TV. Afterwards Lis had his news programmes at two other Polish TV stations: TVN and Polsat.
For the last two years he has edited the weekly magazine Wprost. http://www.ringieraxelspringer.pl/biuro-prasowe/informacje-prasowe

The magazine is published weekly with the circulation of 172,817 copies.
The editorial team of Newsweek Polska can be reached at redakcja@newsweek.pl.


Irina Sokol has been appointed editorial director of Russian Shopping Guide (Moscow edition)

Shopping Guide in Moscow is part of the network of Russian shopping guides Ya pokupayu. published by Abak-Press. The network includes 18 publications in major Russian cities. The Moscow edition comes out monthly with 55,000 copies' circulation.
Regular features of the magazine cover fashion, beauty and health, cars, gadgets and design, and home, travel and entertainment. http://shopping-guide.lookmart.ru/

The editorial team of the magazine can be contacted on info@moscow.apress.ru.

New editor at Ukrainian magazine Kontrakty

Elena Shramko has become the editor of Ukrainian weekly business magazine Kontrakty.

The magazine was launched in 1990 and is written in Russian language. It covers main events of the week, includes interviews with politicians and senior government officials, and provides analysis of current economic situation in Ukraine and the world, management of corporate and personal finances, and big business in Ukraine.

The magazine is distributed in Ukraine nationwide with 53,500 copies.


Elena Shramko can be contacted on shramko@gc.kiev.ua.

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A new Serbian website for mobile technologies

A new online magazine ITbox.rs has been launched this February in Serbia. It covers IT technologies, mobile computing and mobile communications, mobile gadgets.

They can be contacted on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itbox.rs and on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ITBOXRS.
The chief editor Ivana Pavlovic can be contacted on ivana.pavlovic@webgazda.com.



Bulgarian Antre magazine on interiors design and lifestyle

The first and second issues of a new Bulgarian digital magazine Antre are available at http://antre.bg.

The digital magazine covers lifestyle, interior design, fashion, beauty and includes interviews and recipes.

Cristina Nigohosian, the publisher and chief editor at Antre Magazine, can be contacted on info@antre.bg and on Facebook: http://bg-bg.facebook.com/pages/Antre/215314365215636?sk=wall.



Russian free newspaper Metro expands

A free weekly newspaper Metro will come to Russian city Novosibirsk in March 2012.
The newspaper will be published by DiMark and will come out on Tuesdays with 100,000 copies and will be distributed for free on streets, public transport, business centers and cafes. Novosibirsk is the fourth city in Russia after Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan, to have Metro edition.
http://www.metronews.ru/o-metro/gazeta-metro-nachnet-vyhodit-v-novosibirske/Tpolbn---R9wRynxHaZIY/

Media Group DiMark in Novosibirsk can be reached at office@nsk.dimark.ru


Editorial changes at Polish Bloomberg Businessweek Polska

Michal Gajewski has been appointed acting editor at Polish Bloomberg Businessweek Polska, after its previous editor Michal Kobosko left to lead Wprost magazine.
http://media.point-group.pl/notatka_203584.html
Michael Gajewski has been with PMPG for more than 10 years. Since July 2011 he has been deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek Polska. Previously, he served at the same title publication as editorial assistant, deputy editor-in-chief and executive editor.

Bloomberg Businessweek Polska has been published every two weeks since September 2011 by Point Group Business Unit and its editorial team can be contacted on redakcja@bbwp.pl.


Forbes Estonia magazine to start in March 2012

Forbes Estonia magazine will be published in partnership with SK Group Publishing in Estonia.

Forbes Estonia will have its first issue to be published at the beginning of March 2012 with the initial circulation of 20,000 copies.
http://sk.lv/forbes-to-launch-forbes-estonia-in-march-2012/
SK Publishing Group launched the Latvian edition of Forbes magazine in June 2010.

Oil and gas industry in CIS countries and Eastern Europe

Oil and gas industry plays an important role in economics of Russian Federation and some countries of Commonwealth of Independent States, especially in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Russian Federation has the world's largest gas reserves, and is one of the world's major exporters of natural gas. It also has got significant oil resources and is the largest producer of oil. Oil and gas industry in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan contributes to the wealth of these countries and they attract investments for energy developments in Caspian Sea region and Central Asia.

All major publications of the industry are presented in our media directory. These trade magazines cover petroleum industry news, industry technologies and trends, environmental legislation and perspectives for further development in regions, and target senior executives, engineers and oil and gas industry professionals.

We currently list most publications for Russian Federation, which cover oil and gas industry, plus industry magazines published in other CIS countries, Poland, Croatia, Ukraine and Romania.

To give you a glimpse on what you can find in our media directory, we have produced a module with some publications of the industry sector, however, we haven’t included editorial details and direct editorial contacts for them. You can have access to all media outlets and contacts' information having subscribed to our services.

The following print Russian titles on oil and gas industry can be found in SlavicMediaOnline.com:

Bureniye i neft'
Faktor vremeni
Geologia nefti i gaza
Korrozia Territorii Neftegaz
Neftegazovaya vertikal
Neftegazovoye delo
Neftegazovoye oborudovanie
Neftegazovye tekhnologii
NeftGazPravo
Neft i kapital
Oil & Gas Eurasia
Oil&Gas Journal Russia
Oil Gas Chemistry
Razvedka i dobycha
Sfera Neftegaz
Spetstekhnika i neftegazovoye oborudovaniye
Territoria NEFTEGAZ
The Russian Energy weekly
Truboprovodny transport Rossii
Truboprovody i ekologia
Gas Industry of Russia
Gazovaya promyshlennost
Gaz Rossii
Neft Rossii
Neftyanoye khozyaistvo
Oil Market
Oil of Russia


Neftegazovaya vertical

Publisher: xxxxx
Phone number: xxxxx
Email: xxxxx
Website: xxxxx
Frequency: fortnightly
Circulation: 15,000
Format: 210x275mm

Street address: Leninsky prospekt 72/2, 1 floor, 117632 Moskva


Ad rate FPC: 92600.00 RUR
Advertising Phone no: xxxxx

Foundation year: 1996.
Language of publication: Russian.
No of pages: 156.

Profile: Magazine covering oil and gas projects, industry mergers and acquisitions, international projects, investments and industry events, and provides commentary, analysis and forecasts for oil and gas markets.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/OGVertical



The Russian Energy weekly

Publisher: xxxxx
Phone number: xxxxx
Email: xxxxx
Website: xxxxx
Frequency: weekly

Street address: B. Tishinsky per., 38, office 604, 123557 Moskva

Publication language: English. Annual subscription: 1560.00 USD.

Profile: The Russian Energy weekly targets managers of oil and gas companies as well as financial and consulting firms that deal mostly with investments in the upstream sector. The newsletter monitors the preparation and implementation of exploration and development projects and transportation infrastructure in Russia and Caspian nations. Each analytical story is usually a case study, made to illustrate and explain specifics of governmental policy and investment climate in the former USSR.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rusenergy


Neftyanoye khozyaistvo

Publisher: xxxxx
Phone number: xxxxx
Email: xxxxx
Website: xxxxx
Frequency: monthly
Circulation: 10,000
Ad rate FPC: 120000.00. RUR. Format: 215x307mm. Advertising email: reklama@oil-industry.ru. English name: Oil industry. Foundation year: 1920. Language of publication: Russian.
Profile: Scientific-technical professional magazine on oil exploration and oil technologies in Russia. Provides analytical and statistical information on all aspects of the oil industry in Russia, and its economic, financial and legal issues. Includes drilling, field development, production, preparation and transportation of oil, environment protection.

Azerbaijan was one of the birthplaces of the oil industry and is still a key oil and gas producer in the region. Caspian Energy is the flagship publication of the oil and gas industry in Azerbaijan, plus there are a few companies’ magazines in the country.

Caspian Energy

Publisher: xxxxx
Phone number: xxxxx
Email: xxxxx
Website: xxxxx
Frequency: bi-monthly
Circulation: 10,000

Street address: ul. Jaffara Jabbarly 44, Baku AZ1065

Publication language: Russian, English.
Profile: The magazine covers oil strategy of Azerbaijan, the Caspian environment, economy, politics and energy industry. Includes implementation of energy and transport projects in the Caspian Sea region, metallurgy and machine-building in the CIS countries.

Romania has got some remaining oil resources sufficient for internal use and it has one of the largest refining industries in the region. We list all its trade publications covering petroleum industry.

Petroleum Industry Review

Publisher: xxxxx
Phone number: xxxxx
Email: xxxxx
Website: xxxxx
Frequency: bi-monthly

Street address: Stefan cel Mare 40, Ploiesti Prahova 100568


Profile: Magazine, published in Romanian and English, targets those directly involved in oil and gas industry - manufacturers, suppliers, transporters, distributors, service providers, top managers and specialists. Includes interviews, reviews, editorials, latest information and articles on innovative technical solutions in oil and gas industry.



Kazakhstan is the second largest oil producer (after Russia) among all former Soviet republics and has got in its Caspian region large recoverable crude oil reserves. One of its most important publications is Petroleum next to Neft i Gaz Kazakhstana.

Petroleum

Publisher: xxxxx
Phone number: xxxxx
Email: xxxxx
Website: xxxxx
Frequency: bi-monthly
Circualtion: 2,500

Street address: ul. Nauryzbay Batyra 58, 1st floor, office 12, 050000 Almaty

Annual subscription: 29000.00 KZT
Foundation Year: 2000.
Language of Publication: Russian, English.

Profile: Analytical bi-monthly journal for specialists operating in the oil and gas sector of Kazakhstan. Provides information on current situation in the oil and gas industry and its prospects, interests of Kazakhstan and its corporations on the global oil and gas market.

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All media changes are reflected in our media directory SlavicMediaOnline.com.
Please contact us to subscribe to our services or inform us on your new media stories on galina@russianmediaonline.com or contact our publisher David Reade on david@netmedia.bz.
On your request we can produce any contacts’ distribution lists on your selected topics.

Polish travel magazine re-named

Polish travel magazine Polska Wita has been re-named recently for Witaj w Podrozy.
The changes also include the shift of their focus on articles describing some beautiful and the most interesting parts of the globe, offering close and far away expeditions, plus numerous ideas for weekend travels. It will also provides interviews with the celebrities on their travel experience.

Monika Wegrzyn, the editor-in-chief of the magazine and the editorial team can be contacted on kontakt@witajwpodrozy.pl.

It is a bi-monthly publication with 60,000 copies' circulation.


Metro Cash & Carry Russia has launched a culinary magazine FoodKultur

Metro Cash & Carry Russia culinary magazine FoodKultur is to be published with 100,000 copies' circulation and distributed for free in Moscow and St.Petersburg.
The publication is aimed at teaching its readers the culture of choice, preparation and consumption of quality food.
http://www.metro-cc.ru/servlet/PB/menu/1182431/index.html

Their Brands and Communications Director Vladislav Tikhomirov can be reached at vladislav.tikhomirov@metro-cc.ru.


A new magazine in Czech city Brno

Daily Czech national newspaper MF DNES has launched a monthly regional lifestyle supplement City Dnes Brno with 20,000 circulation.

It is a guide to life in the South Moravian capital. It targets young active people
and visitors to the city Brno. Provides leisure, cultural, culinary and sporting events, city tours, shopping and other useful information. Includes calendar listings of major events in Brno.

The editorial team in Brno can be contacted on redbrn@mfdnes.cz.


Ukrainian online portal Segodnya.ua with a new editor

Svetlana Panyushkina has been appointed editor of Ukrainian website Segodnya.ua moving on from her editorial position at business and financial website Delo.ua. Her duties at Delo.ua will be taken over by their financial editor Alexander Ruban.

Segodnya.ua has been functioning since April 2007, providing latest news, opinions and comments. It has got around 1,200,000 unique visitors monthly who visit their 30 news sections.


Russian OK! magazine with a new Editor-in-Chief

Vadim Vernik has become Editor-in-Chief of OK! Russia magazine published by Axel Springer Russia. He has replaced Tatiana Saburenkova on this position, who has left the title. Nika Bagaeva has been appointed a Chief Editor of the publication after having served for 3 years as a deputy editor at the magazine(http://www.ok-magazine.ru/stars/news/item24325.php)

The magazine has been published in Russia since November 2006 and provides latest news and facts from the life of Russian and international celebrities.

The editorial team of the magazine can be contacted on info@ok-magazine.ru and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OKmagazineRu.

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All media changes are reflected in our media directory SlavicMediaOnline.com.
Please contact us to subscribe to our services or inform us on your new media stories on galina@russianmediaonline.com or contact our publisher David Reade on david@netmedia.bz.
On your wish, we can pull out any full contacts’ distribution lists on your requested topics.


The editor Ekaterina Odintsova has left her position at Russian Shopping Guide magazine

Ekaterina Odintsova, the editor of Russian Shopping Guide, left her position as of January 10. (http://www.apress.ru/shoppingguide/news/2012/1/1507).

The reason for her stepping down is to join the editorial team at one of the Russian TV fashion channels. Her replacement is to be announced due.

Shopping Guide covers trends in the world of fashion, beauty and other aspects of lifestyle, with the main focus on shopping and consumer affairs.


Its circulation in Moscow only is around 55,000 copies' monthly.


Evgeniy Zuenko has been appointed editor of Russian sports magazine PROsport

Evgeniy Zuenko has stepped up as the Editor-in-Chief of Russian sports magazine PROsport from his Deputy Editor's position. Stanislav Gridasov, its former Editor, has moved on to become the publishing director at Independent Sport publishing house. (http://www.prosports.ru, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/prosportmagazine)

PROsport is a fortnightly magazine with 100,000 circulation and covers main events in the sports world. Its editorial team can be reached at prosports@prosports.ru.

The changes at one of the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita's supplements: http://www.zw.com.pl

Michal Cessanis (m.cessanis@rp.pl) has become director of supplement Zycie Warszawy at Polish daily national newspaper Rzeczpospolita.

Zycie Warszawy (Warsaw Life) comes out six times a week in the capital of Poland and the whole of Mazovia region as a supplement to the daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita. It provides current information about Warsaw and the commentaries on major events taking place in the capital city. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ZycieWarszawy




New publisher and new editor at Russian daily newspaper Trud

Valery Simonov has returned to Russian national newspaper Trud as its Editor-in-Chief. He was previously the editor at Komsomolskaya Pravda, Tribune and Economic security.

We wrote in October 2011 that their new publisher is supposed to be Rossneft, which turned out to be not true, however, they don't reveal the name of their publisher yet. They will try to 'turn their editorial focus from culture and sports to consumer affairs and current news.' (http://marker.ru/news/512552)

Trud comes out three times a week with over 200,000 copies' circulation. Please refer to our media directory for further information and editorial contacts.


Maciej Kedziak replacing Marcin Sasha Lasiewicki at Polish lifestyle magazine Gala

Maciej Kedziak (http://www.goldenline.pl/maciej-kedziak) has become the Deputy Editor at Polish lifestyle magazine Gala, after Marcin Sasha Lasiewicki left the title.


The fortnightly magazine covers lifestyle, celebrities and entertainment and its editorial team can be contacted on gala@gala.pl.

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A new online resource Mobinfo.cz has started in Czech Republic

Mobinfo.cz is based in Brno and covers mobile phones, mobile applications, and mobile telephony operators.
Tomas Dosedel leads the editorial team of Mobinfo.cz and prior to this Tomas worked as editor of Mobility magazine. He specializes in mobile technology and mobile service providers.

The other members of editorial team are Ivo Kocera and Pavel Tomek, who have also written for Mobility.

They can be contacted on info@mobinfo.cz and can be followed on Twitter: @mobinfocz or on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mobinfo.cz.


Polish computing magazine CHIP with a new Editor

Konstanty Mlynarczyk has succeeded Michal Adamczyk on Editor-in-Chief's position of Polish IT technology magazine CHIP. He and his editorial team can be reached at redakcja@chip.pl.


The magazine comes out monthly with 60,000 copies' circulation and is published by Burda Communications Sp. z o.o.

It targets young people interested in technology, computer hardware and software.


Russian GQ has seen some editorial changes

Nikolay Uskov(@NikolayUskov), its Editor-in-Chief, is leaving the title to join the media group JV! and the project Snob (http://www.snob.ru/selected/entry/45034).

Michael Idov, a contributing editor at New York Magazine, will become a new Editor-in-Chief of Russian GQ as of February 1. In English language Idov can be followed on his Twitter: @michaelidov and in Russian on @moscowidov.

According to Condenast Russia the GQ magazine boasts readership of 246,900.


Ukraine with a a new regional weekly newspaper

A new regional weekly newspaper ZIK was launched on January 12 in Lviv in Western Ukraine. It will be published in Ukrainian language on 24 pages, and will appear with 10,000 copies' circulation.

Their editor Oleg Onysko and the editorial team can be contacted on gazeta@zik.lviv.ua.





Tochikoni Rossiya comes to Tajikistan

Media Holding Tajinfo has started publishing a monthly newspaper Tochikoni Rossiya in Tajikistan. The newspaper has been published in Russia since 2000 and covers politics and business cooperation between Russia and Tajikistan, the life and work of Tajik diaspora in Russian Federation.

The newspaper comes out with 10,000 copies' circulation and the editorial team can be reached at tajinfo@mail.ru.

The Publishing Director Muhammad Egamzod (tajinfo@mail.ru) is planning to increase its frequency to weekly.