Gazprom Media
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Gazprom-Media is the largest Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n media holding founded in 2000 as a subsidiary of Gazprom
Gazprom
Open Joint Stock Company Gazprom is the largest extractor of natural gas in the world and the largest Russian company. Its headquarters are in Cheryomushki District, South-Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow...

. In 2000 it acquired NTV
NTV Russia
NTV is a Russian television channel. As a subsidiary of Vladimir Gusinsky's company Media-Most, it was a pioneer in the post-Soviet independent television media, but was later taken over by state-owned Gazprom.- History :...

, the only nationwide state-independent television in Russia of the time, as well as other media assets of Vladimir Gusinsky
Vladimir Gusinsky
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky is a Russian media baron, is known as the founder of Media-Most holding that included Most Bank, the NTV channel, the newspaper Segodnya and magazines.-Life and career:Gusinsky was born in Moscow....

's Media Most group, which raised a major controversy and resulted in considerable changes in their editorial policy. In 2005 Gazprom-Media purchased Izvestia
Izvestia
Izvestia is a long-running high-circulation daily newspaper in Russia. The word "izvestiya" in Russian means "delivered messages", derived from the verb izveshchat . In the context of newspapers it is usually translated as "news" or "reports".-Origin:The newspaper began as the News of the...

, a leading nationwide newspaper. In August 2005 Gazprom sold the group to Gazprombank
Gazprombank
Gazprombank is the largest Russian non-state owned bank, which is among the three largest banks in Russia. It is a joint stock bank founded in 1990. The bank is owned by the Russian gas company Gazprom, which controls 62.59% of shares directly and also retains shares through its subsidiaries...

.

Paper publications

Seven Days Publishing House:
Itogi (weekly news magazine)
Seven Days (TV guide)
Story Caravan (monthly magazine)
Story Caravan Collection (monthly magazine)
Tribuna
Tribuna
Tribuna is a weekly Russian newspaper that focuses largely on industry and the energy sector, published from 1969. Until 1990, the newspaper titled the Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya, then it was renamed into the Rabochaya Tribuna. Since April 1998 for newspaper fixed the current title.Since 2000s...

Izvestia
Izvestia
Izvestia is a long-running high-circulation daily newspaper in Russia. The word "izvestiya" in Russian means "delivered messages", derived from the verb izveshchat . In the context of newspapers it is usually translated as "news" or "reports".-Origin:The newspaper began as the News of the...

Peterburgskiy Chas Pik

Directors General

  • Viktor Ilyushin (December 1997 – June 1998)
  • Sergey Zverev (June 1998 – May 1999)
  • Alexander Astafyev (1999–2000)
  • Alfred Kokh
    Alfred Kokh
    Alfred Reingoldovich Kokh is a Russian writer, mathematician-economist, and businessman of ethnic German origin.He served as a deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin and was an ally of economic reformer Anatoly Chubais, a chief architect of Russia's privatization...

     (June 2000 - October 2001)
  • Boris Jordan
    Boris Jordan
    Boris Jordan is an American businessman of Russian origin. He speaks both English and Russian fluently.An American of Russian ancestry, Boris Jordan assisted Russia's economic transition to capitalism in the early '90s, assisting in the launch of the Russian stock market and the privatization of...

     (October 2001 - January 2003)
  • Alexander Dybal (January 2003 – June 2004)
  • Nikolay Senkevich (since July 2004)

Board of directors

Alexander Dybal (chair)
Ilya Yeliseyev
Nikolay Senkevich
Sergei Ushakov
Konstantin Chuychenko
Konstantin Chuychenko
Konstantin Anatolyevich Chuychenko , is a Russian lawyer and businessman.-Career:Born in Leningrad, Soviet Union), Chuychenko graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1987 as a fellow student of Dmitry Medvedev....


Management Committee

Nikolay Senkevich (CEO, Director General)
Igor Goykhberg (Deputy Director General)
Sergey Petrov (Director for Finance)
Yan Piskunov (Chief of Legal Department)
Dmitry Samokhin (Director General of NTV Plus
NTV Plus
NTV Plus is the brand name for the Russian digital satellite television service from NTV, transmitted from Eutelsat's W4 satellite at 36.0°E & from Bonum 1 at 56.0°E...

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