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Gazprom-Media

Gazprom-Media (Russian: ОАО Газпром-Медиа) is a Russian media holding company established in January 1998 as a subsidiary of Gazprom Media Holdings.[2] It and its parent company are subsidiaries of Gazprom, a large Russian oil and gas company founded in 1989.[3][4] The group owns more than 38 television channels and 10 radio stations.

History

In 2000, under pressure from Mikhail Lesin, Gazprom-Media acquired NTV, the only nationwide television channel independent of the government at the time, as well as other media assets of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media Most [ru] group – including the satellite operator NTV Plus, TNT, the radio station Echo of Moscow, and the Seven Days [ru] publishing house – which resulted in major controversy and considerable changes to the channel's editorial policy.[4][5][6][7]

After taking over Media Most in 2000, Gazprom-Media received assets and personnel from Filipp Bobkov's dissolved Fifth Chief Directorate of the KGB,[a] including its thousands of employees, its database, and the security service founded by Bobkov that had been accused of attempting to assassinate Boris Berezovsky in 1994.[8][9] The directorate's entire archive had been taken to Media Most.[10] In 2000, Bobkov created the Institute of Strategic Studies and Analysis (ISSA), a joint stock company. It was led by Vaqif Hüseynov [ru], the former head of the KGB in Azerbaijan, and operated as a think tank and successor to Media Most's security department. Vladimir Zhizhin [ru] chaired the ISSA's board of directors from 2001 to 2002.[11][12][b]

In 2005, Gazprom-Media purchased Izvestia, a national daily newspaper.[4] In May 2008, the National Media Group [ru] bought a 50.19% stake in Izvestia from Gazprom-Media.[14][c]

In August 2005, Gazprom-Media Holdings was sold to Gazprombank for 37.22 billion rubles. In 2012, Gazprombank's ownership was split between Gazprom with a 41.73% stake and NPF Gazfond with a 46.92% stake.[4][2][16] Most of Gazfond's stake was managed by the financial company Lider [ru]. As a part of the SOGAZ insurance company, Lider had been controlled by Rossiya Bank, whose largest shareholder was Yuri Kovalchuk, an associate of Vladimir Putin.[2][16][17] In March 2014, Rossiya Bank sold its indirect control of Lider to Gazfond, which now owns a 45% stake in Lider.[16] Since 2003, Gazfond's president has been Yuri Shamalov, who is also the deputy chairman of Gazprombank.[18][16]

Media assets

Television

Radio (via subsidiary GPM-Radio)

Paper publications

  • Seven Days Publishing House[19]
    • Seven Days (TV guide)[19][20]
    • Story Caravan (monthly magazine)
    • Story Caravan Collection (monthly magazine)

Internet

  • Rutube
  • Вокруг ТВ
    • SRSLY
  • Sportbox.ru
  • УМА-ТЕХ
  • Premier
  • Getintent
  • 2x2.Медиа

Movie and cinema

Directors general

  • Viktor Ilyushin (December 1997 – June 1998)
  • Sergey Zverev (June 1998 – May 1999)
  • Alexander Astafyev (1999 – 2000)
  • Alfred Kokh (June 2000 – October 2001)
  • Boris Jordan (October 2001 – January 2003)
  • Alexander Dybal (January 2003 – June 2004)
  • Nikolay Senkevich (since July 2004)
  • Aleksandr Zharov (since March 2020)

Board of directors

Management

Source:[22]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The Fifth Chief Directorate was responsible for disinformation, control of dissidents, religious groups, and executions.
  2. ^ Zhinzhin was close to Arne Treholt.[13]
  3. ^ National Media Group was founded in February 2008. Investors include Severstal with a 26% stake as of 2009, Rossiya Bank with a 35.5% stake at the end of 2012, SOGAZ with a 21.22% stake as of 2015, and Surgutneftegas with a 23.98% stake as of 30 March 2016.[citation needed] Since 2014, the National Media Group has been chaired by Alina Kabaeva, who has a strong relationship with Vladimir Putin.[15]

References

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  2. ^ a b c "Как создавался и развивался "Газпром-медиа холдинг": Досье" [How Gazprom-Media Holding was created and developed: Dossier]. Kommersant (in Russian). 15 February 2012. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  3. ^ Цвик, В. (Tsvik, V.); Качкаева, А. (Kachkaeva, A.). "Реформы в обществе и на телевидении" [Reforms in society and on television]. tvmuseum.ru website (in Russian). Archived from the original on 11 November 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2021. See section Телевидение, власть и капитал (Television, power and capital) on page 5.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  5. ^ Общество: "Газпром" может стать хозяином "Медиа-Моста" к середине 2001 года [Gazprom can become the owner of Media-Most by mid-2001] (in Russian). Lenta.ru. November 13, 2000. Archived from the original on May 9, 2018. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
  6. ^ Сурганова, Елизавета (Surganova, Elizaveta); Соболев, Сергей (Sobolev, Sergei); Русяева, Полина (Rusyaeva, Paulina) (7 November 2015). ""Я все могу": чем запомнился бывший министр печати Михаил Лесин: Скончался бывший министр печати и до недавнего времени — один из самых влиятельных людей российского медиарынка Михаил Лесин" ["I can do anything": what is the memory of the former Minister of the Press Mikhail Lesin: Former press minister and, until recently, one of the most influential people on the Russian media market, Mikhail Lesin, has passed away]. RBC (РБК) (in Russian). Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  8. ^ Ideologist for all times Archived 2005-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, by Felix Shemedlovsky, (in Russian) Vedomosti
  9. ^ Григорьев, Андрей (Grigoriev, Andrei) (28 March 2000). Аполитичный Гусинский. Apolitical Gusinsky. (in Russian). «Компания» — деловой еженедельник (Company). Archived from the original on 12 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  10. ^ Ideologist for all times Archived 2005-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, by Felix Shemedlovsky, (in Russian) Vedomosti, A slightly different version
  11. ^ "Записки бывшего подполковника КГБ: Секретная служба "телекиллера" Доренко. В этой части Попов пишет об исследовательских институтах, работавших на КГБ, гибели экс-мэра Санкт-Петербурга Анатолия Собчака и роли спецслужб в судьбе телеведущего Сергея Доренко" [Notes of Former KGB Lieutenant Colonel: Secret Service of "Telekiller" Dorenko. In this part, Popov writes about research institutes working for the KGB, the death of the ex-mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak and the role of the special services in the fate of TV anchor Sergei Dorenko.]. Gordonua (in Russian). 20 May 2020. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Гусейнов Вагиф Алиовсатович" [Huseynov Vagif Aliovsat]. viperson.ru (in Russian). 15 May 2003. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  13. ^ Смирнов, Алексей (Smirnov, Alexey) (24 September 2010). "ндал, шитый клейкой лентой" [Scandel sewn with duct tape]. Novye Izvestia (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "«Национальная Медиа Группа» консолидировала крупнейший пакет акций «Редакции газеты «Известия»". Mergers.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  15. ^ Рождественский, Илья (Rozhdestvensky, Ilya) (19 November 2019). "Стоимость недвижимости семьи Кабаевой достигла 1,25 млрд рублей. Как получены дома и при чем тут "Газпром"" [The value of the real estate of the Kabaeva family has reached 1.25 billion rubles. How did you get at home and what does Gazprom have to do with it?]. «Открытые медиа» (in Russian). Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  18. ^ "Yuri Shamalov: President, Npf Gazfond". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on February 20, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  19. ^ a b "7Дней.ру - Новости, интервью, фото и видео звезд". 7Дней.ру. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  20. ^ 7 Days: The Russian Oracle, 7 April 2010.Accessed: 5 December 2010.
  21. ^ "Gazprom-Media Holding Leadership". gazprom-media.com. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  22. ^ "Leadership".