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Line 20: In 1997, business mogul [[Boris Berezovsky (businessman)\|Boris Berezovsky]] – a member of the former President Boris Yeltsin's 'family'<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/russia/article/0,,2056443,00.html/ ''Fortune made in Yeltsin era''] – ''Guardian'', 13 April 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.</ref> – bought the Kommersant publishing house, which included ''Kommersant-daily'', two serious weekly magazines (the political ''Kommersant-vlast'' (literally 'Power') and the financial ''[[Kommersant Dengi]]'' ('Money') – as well as entertainment magazines ''Domovoi'' and ''Avtopilot'' and ''Molotok'', a teen magazine, which later incurred the authorities' wrath.<ref>[http://english.pravda.ru/russia/kremlin/82774-1/ ''Prosecutors to save Russian teenagers from SMS pornography'' – ''Pravda'', 30 June 2006]. Retrieved 24 July 2007.</ref> Berezovsky sacked ''Kommersant'''s director-general, Andrei Vassiliev, and editor-in-chief, Alexander Stukalin, on 14 July 2005<ref>[http://www.bu.edu/iscip/digest/vol10/ed1008.html Boston University publication, July 2005]. Retrieved 14 October 2007</ref> in a move widely seen as preparation for the 2008 [[2008 Russian presidential election\|Russian presidential elections]]. In January 2005, ''Kommersant'' published blank pages as a protest at a court ruling ordering it to publish a denial of a story about a crisis at [[Alfa-Bank]]. The sole article in the paper was this one, published upside down, on the front page. The headline of the article was "Full Plaintiff" (полный истец) which has little meaning, but rhymes with a [[Russian mat\|Russian swear word]], meaning "complete disaster" ({{Lang-ru\|[[Russian mat\|полный пиздец]]\|links=\|translit=polniy pizdets}}).<ref>{{cite news\|script-title=ru:Полный истец\|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=543041\|work=Kommersant\| location=Moscow\|date=31 January 2005\|language= Russian\|accessdate=24 August 2009}}</ref> The English version of the article was headed "Alfa-d Up".<ref>{{cite news\|title=Alfa-d Up\|url=http://www.kommersant.com/p543041/r_524/Alfa-d_Up/\|work=Kommersant\|location=Moscow\|date=31 January 2005\|accessdate=28 August 2009\|url-status=dead\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606111951/http://www.kommersant.com/p543041/r_524/Alfa-d_Up/\|archivedate=6 June 2011\|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

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