Russian web-magazine OpenSpace.ru is looking for a new owner. It is possible, that Alexander Vinokurov, ex-CEO of “KIT Finance” and the owner of TV channel "Dozhd" (“The Rain”) and Slon.ru site, might be the one.

Slon.ru chief editor, Leonid Bershidsky, confirmed to Webplanet.ru that Vinokurov “was offered to buy an OpenSpace.ru share”. But he also said he doesn’t know about the present state of this negotiations.

OpenSpace didn’t manage to reply to our request by the time of publication. However, OpenSpace and “The Rain” staff messages in social networks indirectly indicate that purchase decision has been made.

The channel representatives hurray OpenSpacers, referring to the address of OpenSpace to its readers and authors, that was published on June 2. In that note, the editors inform that financial troubles of OpenSpace have successfully been fought through.

At the end of May, there was information on Runet, saying that OpenSpace publishing company (“ArtMedia Group”) ceased to exist, due to the arrest of its owner’s Valerii Nosov. It was said that OpenSpace itself would be closed or sold in the nearest future.

Back then, some staff of the portal informed mass media of the project to be already closed. But until now it has been some way or other updated. Among potential buyers, OpenSpace mass media name Roman Abramovich and “Snob” publishers.

Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) employees learnt to read context ads in search engines. According to “Vedomosti”, now they may start fining for words in superior forms.

Local Department of the Federal Migration Service in Perm initiated this kind of case. Users complained that if you enter a phrase “the best taxis” and name a city in the Yandex search bar, you will get links to some particular site that belongs to “Vezet” company.

In FAS’s opinion it contravenes the advertizing law. The law says it is illegal to mention one’s superiority over the others, if it is not proved. It is the first time when FAS initiates a context ad case, not against the context itself but key words result in the search.

Experts devided on the matter whether superior forms of phrases contradict fair trade. Anyway, ads with superior forms can be found both in Yandex and Google search results. No matter what it is all about: taxis, restaurants or bikes. Meanwhile no one restricts advertisers on this issue, at least until the moment, when FAS clearly defines its attitude towards the issue.

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