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Founder Moscow Times Derk Sauer Dies After Accident - Worthy Christian News
By Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Europe Bureau Chief AMSTELVEEN/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Derk Sauer, the Dutch media entrepreneur who founded one of Russia’s few independent newspapers, The Moscow Times, died on Thursday at age 72, following an accident, his family confirmed in a statement. Sauer was seriously injured last month in Greece in a crash with his sailing boat. Dutch sources said he and his wife, Ellen, were on their vessel when it unexp…
‘The Godfather of the Media Business’: Russian Journalists Remember Derk Sauer, Pioneering Media Entrepreneur
Derk Sauer, Dutch media entrepreneur and founder of The Moscow Times, passed away in the Netherlands on Thursday. Sauer, who moved to Moscow during the twilight of the Soviet Union, was responsible for founding Vedomosti, the first Western-style business daily in Russia, founding The Moscow Times and launching the Russian versions of publications like Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Playboy.
Derka Sauera is called the founding father of the Russian media market, who came from Amsterdam to Moscow in the late 1980s and created the largest publishing house in Russia, Independent Media. Thanks to the Russian Power, the magazines Esquire, Playboy and Cosmopolitan appeared in Russia. He began his journalistic career at the age of 14 with the creation of a newspaper for his own movement, Action Group for World Peace.
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