Gazeta.Ru () is a Russian news site based in Moscow. In 2012, ownership of Gazeta.Ru was transferred to Alexander Mamut. In 2020, the state-owned company Sberbank became the sole owner of Gazeta.Ru's holding company, Rambler Media Group. History Gazeta.Ru was launched in 1999 as a project with the Foundation for Effective Politics (rus. Фонд эффекти́вной поли́тики) under the leadership of Anton Nosik. In February 1999 the first publication was published. In September 1999 the publications Vesti.ru and Lenta.ru were created, and the brand Gazeta.ru was sold to the company Yukos, which created a new edition under the leadership of former editor-in-chief of the daily business newspaper Kommersant, Vladislav Borodulin. After its time under Vladislav Borodulin who owned 100% of the stock, Gazeta.Ru was sold to Sekret Firmy in 2005, a publishing house owned by Alisher Usmanov since 2006. In 2005 Aleksandr Pisarev served as chief editor for one year. He was replaced by Mikhail Mikhailin who held its position till 2010. Then Mikhail Kotov became chief editor, but he left Gazeta.ru in 2013, because he didn’t agree with the power shift in the newspaper. In 2012 Alisher Usmanov sold his interest in SUP Media to Alexander Mamut. In 2013 companies SUP Media and Rambler-Afisha were united in the Combined company Afisha.Rambler.SUP (from 2014 Rambler&Co). In 2013 Svetlana Lolaeva, a member of staff since 2007, served as chief editor and, in the same year, was replaced by Svetlana Babaeva, a former employee of Izvestia and RIA Novosti. In 2016 Olga Alekseeva was announced as chief editor. In October 2019, Sergey Rybka became the chief editor. Gazeta.Ru is the 50th most-visited website in Russia, according to Alexa Internet rankings. Content Gazeta.Ru is sociopolitically oriented and features continually updated daily breaking news, photo and video, user-submitted comments. Gazeta.Ru is also known for its editorials, op-eds, columns and online interviews with politicians and economists. In 2001 Gazeta.ru published an online-interview with president Vladimir Putin. According to Medialogy, Gazeta.Ru was one of the three most cited news sources in the country in November 2014. The video projects "Tea Party" and "7 minutes with Maxim Shevchenko" were launched in May 2016. The hosts of the first program were Georgy Bovt, the newspaper's columnist, and Ekaterina Vinokurova, a special correspondent for the Ural Internet publication Znak.com. Columnists (different periods) In November 1999, the section "Publications" was introduced in Gazeta.Ru. Yulia Latynina, writer and journalist Igor Irtenyev, poet