He launched some business projects in Israel, including an IP telephony startup (Deltathree), but ultimately decided to return to Russia and invest his time in information technologies there.

In Kyrgyzstan, Kudriavtsev became a minor shareholder in the gold mining company and earned $3.5 million from selling his share several years later.

[1] In 2005, Kudryavtsev assisted Berezovsky in the management shake-up of Kommersant newspaper and invited Vladislav Boroulin as the chief editor.

[1][2] Starting in 2007, Kommersant (and specifically the Kommersant-Vlast magazine) came under pressure from the authorities for publications on sensitive political topics.

[1][2] Starting in 2013, Kudryavtsev and his business partners Vladimir Voronov and Martin Pompadout (both affiliated with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation) negotiated with Sanoma about purchasing its Russian assets.

[1][3] The deal was signed in May 2015, shortly after the Russian authorities adopted a law effectively banning foreign control of media in Russia.

[5][6] The entrepreneur had denied allegations, pointing out that he never interfered with the editorial politics[7] and that during his ownership of Vedomosti, the newspaper was targeted by several lawsuits from Rosneft, while he personally was stripped out of his Russian citizenship and effectively chased out of the country.

[8] After acquiring The Moscow Times, Kudryavtsev invited Yuri Saprykin and Mikhail Fishman to lead the editorial team and relaunched the newspaper as a weekly print publication.