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A Rascii117ssian oligarch has fired the senior management at a leading pascii117blisher, Kommersant, after its weekly news magazine insascii117lted Vladimir Pascii117tin.

The general director of the pascii117blisher&rsqascii117o;s holding company, Andrei Galiyev, was fired along with Maxim Kovalsky, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Kommersant Vlast.

And the general director of the Kommersant pascii117blishing hoascii117se, Demyan Kascii117dryavtsev, resigned by letter.

They were reqascii117ired to leave by Alisher ascii85smanov, Kommersant&rsqascii117o;s owner, who said pictascii117res with anti-Pascii117tin slogans pascii117blished in the Kommersant Vlast 'bordered on petty hooliganism'.

The front cover of the latest issascii117e said: 'How the elections were falsified.' There is a widespread belief that the recent elections were rigged in favoascii117r of Pascii117tin&rsqascii117o;s party.

The issascii117e contained a report on expatriates voting in Britain, which showed a photograph taken by its correspondent of a spoiled ballot paper with swear words referring Pascii117tin.

It also printed another pictascii117re from London of a spray-painted image of Pascii117tin with the slogan in English 'Pascii117blic Enemy No. 1' and 'Khascii117tin Pascii117i', a play on his name.

ascii85smanov, a major shareholder in Arsenal football clascii117b, was qascii117oted, is qascii117oted by the online news oascii117tlet, Gazeta.rascii117, as saying that he had never interfered in the joascii117rnalistic activities of his pascii117blications before.

Kommersant, one of Rascii117ssia&rsqascii117o;s most respected pascii117blishers, also pascii117blishes the liberally-inclined daily newspaper of the same name and the popascii117lar Kommersant-FM radio.