Russkiy Kurier

Russkiy Kurier
Type	Online newspaper
Format	Website
Editor	Igor Golembiovsky
Founded	April 2003
Language	Russian
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Website	www.ruscur.ru

Russkiy Kurier (Russian: Русский курьер, translated as Russian Courier) is a Moscow-based online newspaper, which was originally published as printed version but nowadays is published online.

History[]

It was founded in 2003 by Igor Golembiovsky, a journalist who had left Novye Izvestiya after being dismissed by the post of editor;^[1] Golembiovsky said his firing was due to political reasons, because of his opposition to Vladimir Putin's government.^[2] In the beginning of the newspaper, journalists, who had left Novye Izvestiya a few months earlier, participated. Igor Golembiovsky, Otto Lacis, Sergey Agafonov, Elena Yampolskaya, Zoya Svetova,^[3] Alina Rebel and others were authors.^[4] "Publishing House Kh. H. S. PUBLISHING HOUSE" under the direction of Igor Yakovenko, then Secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia, was the newspaper’s publisher.^[5]^[6]

The newspaper shut down in April 2005 for financial reasons. Chief editor Golembiovsky and the entire staff were dismissed.^[5] On May 30, 2005, the newspaper resumed work with Sergey Frolov as new chief editor. His new concept was to create a newspaper of national interests.^[7]

In 2013 it launched its online version on its homepage ruscur.ru. In 2017 Russkiy Kurier ceased print edition and became an online-only publication.^[8]^[9]