[6] The Moscow Times reported that the 11 May 2016 RBC article "Oyster farming will begin in front of "Putin's palace" near Gelendzhik" (Russian: Напротив «дворца Путина» под Геленджиком начнут разводить устриц) revealed that Alexander Ponomarenko is the owner of "Putin's Palace".

Thus, RBK-Kaliningrad is more focused on the business topic, RBK-Ufa produces more interviews and large analytics formats, RBK-Tatarstan content contains more materials about petrochemistry and oil refining, the banking sector.

[21] The holders of the RBK franchise earn money by selling advertising, the placement of which is administered by the Moscow office of the holding.

As part of the contract, franchisees pay royalties to the federal RBK, the amount of which depends on the advertising capacity of the region.

[26] In 2011 RBK acquired Ru-Center for almost 0.9 billion rubles, which made Hosting Community the largest company in Eastern Europe in both areas.

Investments" LLC, which unites private investors led by Proxima Capital Group, founded by Vladimir Tatarchuk, ex-deputy chairman of Alfa Bank.

[31] However, unlike other entertainment projects that served to attract traffic to business publications, LovePlanet.ru was profitable, and in 2014 the management of RBK abandoned the idea of selling the service.

[32] Previously the same segment included a publication about Cnews technologies, RBK in 2018 sold the media to its editor Maksim Kazak and CEO Eduard Ercole.

Among the letters, correspondence between AP employee Timur Prokopenko and RBK CEO Nikolai Molibog and journalist Mikhail Rubin was discovered.

Molibog confirmed that he had communicated with the state to explain the essence of the large-scale changes in RBK, but noted that the AP does not affect publications in any way.

[34][35] In 2016 Rosneft filed a lawsuit against RBK, journalists Timofey Dzyadko, Lyudmila Podobedova, Maxim Tovkailo and RBK-TV presenter Konstantin Bochkarev.

[36] The state corporation did not like the April publication «Sechin asked the government to protect Rosneft from BP,» where, citing government sources, it was reported that Igor Sechin was afraid of increasing BP's share in Rosneft and asked to limit the range of possible purchasers of shares during privatization (in fact, acting against the interests of shareholders).

[37] Rosneft challenged the decision, considering the amount of compensation «ridiculous», and RBK also appealed, demanding that the claim be dismissed in full.

On March 1, 2018 the Court of Appeal overturned the decision to award compensation, but upheld the requirement to refute the information on the air of RBK-TV.

[40] In June 2019 RBK, Kommersant and Vedomosti for the first time in their history came out with the front page in a single style — the inscription «I / We Ivan Golunov».

[41] In March 2020 Rosneft filed another claim against RBK for damages in the amount of 43 billion rubles due to the article «Ryazan PSC received a share in the former Venezuelan Rosneft project», dedicated to the transfer of Roszarubezhneft through a technical intermediary represented by the private security company RN-Okhrana-Ryazan.

[42] Following the negotiations in July, the editorial board of RBK publicly expressed regret that the title of the article could cause incorrect interpretations, and Rosneft withdrew its claims against the holding.