However, RBC under Prokhorov's ownership gained a reputation as the last big media company willing to write stories about the most sensitive issues. Days after the story appeared, masked law-enforcement officers raided the headquarters of Prokhorov's holding company Onexim in what officials called a tax investigation. Badanin said he had learned from executives in the media group that officials had, on occasion, called people close to the group's owners to ask to have some articles removed. A former editor of a Russian media group described how he and colleagues were pushed out over reporting that angered officials, in the first public account of the taming of Russia's last big news organization willing to take on the Kremlin. A short while after, the head of a utility company owned by Onexim group was arrested on suspicion of fraud.

Source: Thanhnien News July 13, 2016 06:00 UTC