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In 1989, with the onset of press freedom in Russia, ''Kommersant'' was founded under the ownership of businessman and publicist [[Vladimir Yakovlev (journalist)|Vladimir Yakovlev]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/source-profile/356511-kommersant|title=Kommersant; Presseurop (English)|work=Presseurop|year=2012|access-date=13 April 2012}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|date=2008-02-01|title=Media Map|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03064220701882780|journal=[[Index on Censorship]]|volume=37|issue=1|pages=183–189|doi=10.1080/03064220701882780|issn=0306-4220}}</ref> It was modeled after Western [[business journalism]].<ref name=":0" /> The newspaper's title is spelled in Russian with a terminal [[Yer|hard sign]] (ъ) – a letter that is silent at the end of a word in modern Russian, and was thus largely abolished by the post-revolution [[Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution reform|Russian spelling reform]], in reference to a pre-Soviet newspaper of the same name active between 1909 and 1917. This is played up in the Kommersant logo, which features a script hard sign at the end of somewhat more formal font. The newspaper also refers to itself or its redaction as "Ъ".