The owner of the Kyiv Post, a Ukrainian English-language newspaper, Mohammad Zahoor, wants to sell the newspaper for $2.4 million as it is not profitable, the Kommersant Ukraine wrote on Thursday.Via Interfax-Ukraine, why did he purchase KP in 2009 if it was a money loser?
"I am a businessman, not a politician. This business [the Kyiv Post] brings me no political dividends, but only a monthly loss of $80,000. We are still subsidizing the Kyiv Post, but it cannot last forever," Zahoor told the newspaper.
According to him, he is ready to sell the newspaper for $2.4 million, the businessmen derived this figure basing on the price he paid for the Kyiv Post in 2009, and the funds he has invested into its development since.
Kyiv Post, now he wants to leave
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