Gazprom-Media (russian: ОАО Газпром-Медиа) is the largest Russian media holding. Gazprom-Media was established in January 1998 as a subsidiary of the 1997 established Gazprom Media Holdings. On its founding in 1997, Gazprom Media Holdings was a subsidiary of Gazprom, a large Russian company founded in 1989, which carries on the business of extraction, production, transport, and sale of

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. The group owns more than 38 television channels and 10 radio stations.

History

In 2000 with pressure from Mikhail Lesin, Gazprom-Media acquired NTV, the only nationwide state-independent television in Russia at the time, as well as other media assets of Vladimir Gusinsky's ''Media Most'' group including the satellite operator NTV-plus, TNT-Teleset, the radio station Echo of Moscow (Ekho Moskvy), and the (Семь дней) publishing house, which raised a major controversy and resulted in considerable changes in their editorial policy. After Gazprom-Media took over "Media Most" in 2000, Gazprom-Media received Filipp Bobkov's entire former KGB 5th directorate (Political police) including all of its employees which was in the thousands, its database and the Bobkov founded security service that was accused of attempting an assassination in 1994 of Boris Berezovsky.Григорьев, Андрей (Grigoriev, Andrei) (28 March 2000)
Аполитичный Гусинский
Apolitical Gusinsky. (in Russian). ''«Компания»'' — деловой еженедельник (''Company'')
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from the original on 12 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2021. The entire archive of 5th KGB Main Directorate was taken to Media-Most. In 2000, Bobkov created the ''Institute for Strategic Assessments and Analysis (ISOA)'' (russian: Институт стратегических оценок и анализа (ИСОА)), a joint stock company (JSC), as a think tank successor to "Media Most"'s security department with the former head of KGB in Azerbaijan (russian: Вагиф Алиовсат оглы Гусейнов, b. born November 27, 1942 Quba,

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) the director of ISOA and from 2001 to 2002 was chairman of the board. In 2005, Gazprom-Media purchased '' Izvestia'', a leading nationwide newspaper. In May 2008, Sergei Fursenko's gained a 50.1% stake in ''Izvestia''.), which was founded in February 2008, was in 2009 Severstal with a 26% stake in NMG, in 2015 Sogaz with a 21.22% stake, at end of 2012 Bank Rossiya with a 35.5% stake, and as of March 30, 2016, Surgutneftegaz with a 23.98% stake. Since 2014, National Media Group's chairman of the board has been Alina Kabaeva who is very close to

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. For 37.22 billion rubles in August 2005, Gazprom-Media Holdings was sold to Gazprombank which in 2012 OJSC Gazprom owned a 41.73% stake in Gazprombank and NPF Gazfond owned a 46.92% stake in Gazprom. As of 2012, most of the stake in Yuri Shamalov's associated Gazfond is managed by Anatoly Gavrilenko's (russian: ЗАО «Лидер») a management company which is part of the SOGAZ insurance group which is controlled by the

associated Rossiya Bank which has Yuri Kovalchuk as its largest shareholder. In March 2014, Rossiya Bank sold its indirect control of Lider to Gasfond which owns a 45% stake in Lider. As of November 2014, Gasfond is the largest shareholder in Gazprombank which controls Gazprom-Media.

Media assets

Television

:* 2×2 :* 365 Days TV :* Pyatnitsa! :* Match! :* NTV :* NTV Plus :* TNT :* TNT4 :* TV-3 :*

Radio

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:*CITY-FM :*Comedy radio :* Ekho Moskvy :* Europa Plus :*Humor FM :*Kids Radio :*Like FM :* NRJ Russia :*Relax FM :*Romantica

Paper publications

*Seven Days Publishing House **Seven Days (TV guide) **''Story Caravan'' (monthly magazine) **''Story Caravan'' Collection (monthly magazine)

Internet

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* VKontakte * Вокруг ТВ ** SRSLY * Sportbox.ru * УМА-ТЕХ * Premier * Getintent * 2x2.Медиа

Movie and cinema

:* Central Partnership :*Comedy Club Production :* Red Media :*NTV-Kino :*October Cinema & Crystal Palace 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

: Alexey Miller (chairman) : Aleksandr Zharov :Yuri Shamalov :Alaxey Matveev :Sergey Kupriyanov :Sergey Kuznets

Management

: Aleksandr Zharov (CEO, Member of the Board of Directors) :Svetlana Fefilova (Deputy CEO) :Yulia Golubeva (Deputy CEO) :

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(Deputy CEO)

Notes

References

External links

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