Cosmopolitan Russia was the Russian edition of Cosmopolitan magazine. It was the first international women's magazine published in the post-Soviet period in Russia. It changed its title to The Voice Mag and ended its affiliation with Cosmopolitan magazine in March 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[1]

Cosmopolitan Russia was established in 1994.^[2][3][4] The first issue was published in May 1994^[5] and featured Cindy Crawford on the cover.^[6] The founding editors were Ellen Verbeek, a Dutch journalist, and Elena Myasnikova, a Russian journalist.^[7] Its headquarters was in Moscow.^[4]

The magazine was part of Sanoma Independent Media, a subsidiary of Sanoma company.^[8] The Independent Media was founded by Derk Sauer and was acquired by the Finnish media company SanomaWSOY in 2005.^[9] Cosmopolitan Russia was published by Fashion Press^[8] on a monthly basis.^[3] The owners of Fashion Press were Sanoma and Hearst Shkulev Media, a subsidiary of the Hearst.^[7][10] As of 2015 the editor-in-chief of the magazine which targets women was Polina Sokhranova.^[11] Maya Akisheva served as its Kazakhstan editor.^[7]

In June 2015 Sanoma Independent Media planned to sell the publisher of Cosmopolitan Russia, Fashion Press, to its partner Hearst Shkulev Media.^[8] However, the proposal was rejected by the Russian Federal Anti-Monopoly Service.^[8] In May 2022 Russian company Independent Media announced that the title would be replaced by local brands.^[12]

The first issue of the magazine sold 50,000 copies.^[5] In 2005 Cosmopolitan Russia sold 1,000,000 copies and was acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as the magazine with the largest number of copies.^[3][7] The circulation of the monthly was 1,050,000 copies in 2009.^[13] Between May and October 2014 the magazine had a circulation of 800,000 copies.^[14]