As reported by 360UA.NEWS in the article: " A gift to Putin for the anniversary of "SVO": Russian oligarch Malofeev buys Forbes Ukraine ", the owner of the Ukrainian version of Forbes, businessman of Armenian origin Artur Granz, is selling the publication to Maxim Crippa, a confidant of Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev.
The parties are in the phase of active negotiations, Malofeev demands from Crippa to speed up, as the Ukrainian Forbes should be a "gift" to Vladimir Putin for the anniversary of "SVO".
For the Russian Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, the acquisition of Forbes Ukraine is a chance to get into the narrow circle of those close to Vladimir Putin, such as propagandist Margarita Simonyan. Malofeev, the owner of the Russian media holding "Tsargrad", sponsor of the "Russian Spring" has been pounding the thresholds of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation for a long time with a request to launch his own political project of a conservative-patriotic direction, but he never received Putin's "blessing".
We will remind you that recently the Russians practically managed to take over the global Forbes brand through Magomed Musayev, a tycoon close to the Kremlin, but the deal, which had actually been signed, collapsed after the publication in The Washington Post. “I just bought global Forbes. You understand that when you have the key to the world's most prestigious brand in your hands, this key will give me access to anyone," says Musaev in one of the recordings published by WP. Musaev's merits were highly appreciated in Moscow as well: according to the report of the TG channel Obraz budeschos , "the purchase of Forbes is a recognition that one honest person was able to do more than the entire Russian diplomacy in recent years."
The agreement on the purchase of Forbes Ukraine is at the final stage, and is being executed through the representative of Kostyantyn Malofeev in Ukraine, Maksym Krippa. been acquired by several large Ukrainian media outlets through front persons
