Derk sauer, Moscow Times founder and Dutch media entrepreneur, dies at 72.

  The Moscow Times31 July 2025
He died from injuries sustained in a sailing accident.

In 1992, Sauer launched The Moscow Times as an English-language daily aimed at the growing expat community in post-Soviet Russia.

He went on to publish the Russian editions of Cosmopolitan, Playboy, FHM, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Esquire and Men's Health.