[5] The newspaper was first published by the Moscow Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol) on 11 December 1919 as Yunyi Kommunar (Russian: Юный коммунар, lit.

Over the next years it changed its name several time, starting a few months after the first issue when it became the Yunosheskaya Pravda (Russian: Юношеская правда, lit.

[7] Previous editors-in-chief include: The paper specialises in topical social and political material, economic surveys, city news, urban chronicles and diverse information.

[6] MK is also known as the host of Russia's oldest hit parade Zvukovaya Dorozhka (Russian: Звуковая дорожка, lit.

[12] In it, Yans wrote about the political careers of three female State Duma deputies from United Russia: Olga Batalina, Ekaterina Lakhova, and Irina Yarovaya.

[13] On 20 March 2013, United Russia deputies Sergey Neverov, Alexander Sidyakin [ru], Sergei Zheleznyak, Robert Schlegel, Olga Batalina, Ekaterina Lakhova, and Mikhail Markelov [ru] wrote requests to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where they asked to check the publication of an advertisement of "dubious nature" in MK.

[15] On 22 March 2013, United Russia deputies demanded that the building of the editorial office of MK be returned to Moscow ownership.