06 May 2004 18:45
RUSSIA: GAZPROM PAPER FIRES EDITOR, BRINGS IN PETERSBURG REPLACEMENT
Valerii Simonov, editor in chief of "Tribuna," has been dismissed and replaced by former
"Sankt-Peterburgskie vedomosti" Editor in Chief Oleg Kuzin, fontanka.ru and other Russian media reported on 5
May. "Tribuna" is owned by Gazprom-Media. Although no official explanation for the dismissal has been given,
media reports indicate that Simonov was sacked for printing critical comments about President Putin by journalist Pavel
Voshchanov. Kuzin, who previously served as editor of "Leningradskaya pravda," was president of St.
Petersburg's League of Journalists, a group closely associated with St. Petersburg's city administration, from
1996 to 1999. Regnum reported on 28 April that "Rossiiskaya gazeta" Editor in Chief Vladislav Fronin will be
replaced in the near future by an unnamed figure from St. Petersburg. RC Copyright (c) 2004. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with
the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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