Pyotr Mironenko

Co-founder of The Bell. Pyotr has 20 years' editing experience at Russia's largest business outlets – Kommersant and RBC. In 2017, he founded The Bell with Elizaveta Osetinskaya and Irina Malkova.

THE BELL WEEKLY: Yandex for sale Members Public

Hello! This week our top story is about Russian billionaires competing to buy a controlling stake in Yandex, Russia's homegrown version of Google. We also look at an assassination attempt on pro-war writer and politician Zakhar Prilepin and the latest spat between the Wagener mercenary group and Russia’

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The Bell was founded in 2017 by journalists Elizaveta Osetinskaya, Irina Malkova and Peter Mironenko as a news outlet independent from the Russian authorities, after its founders have been sacked as top editors at the largest Russian news website RBC because of pressure from the Kremlin.

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