Colta.ru (from Italian colta - "harvesting", "educated, enlightened") is a Russian Internet publication covering contemporary art and culture.
[3] The team led by editor-in-chief Maria Stepanova left the editorial office of the OpenSpace.ru portal in full force.
[1][6] Mikhail Ratgauz, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Colta.ru, said regarding the substantive and conceptual difference between Colta.ru and OpenSpace.ru: “We are reducing the number of materials.
[11] The site began to function at the expense of its employees, who received compensation from OpenSpace.ru upon dismissal and invested this money in the launch of the project (registration, royalties, etc.).
According to its results, the first place was taken by video blogger Ilya Maddison , the second - by the IT-entrepreneur Nariman "Abu" Namazov, the owner of the imageboard 2ch.hk, the third - by the opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was also in the top ten, writer Zakhar Prilepin, countercultural figure Sergei "Pakhom" Pakhomov and rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov.