Novy Vzglyad
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Novy Vzglyad, is a weekly newspaper
published in Moscow, Russia. It used to be well known for its commentaries on politics and social issues in 1990s.
bought the newspaper and merged it with the another journal. It is currently owned by him and former TV host (of Vzglyad show) Yevgeny Dodolev.
Starting as a weekly, the Novy Vzglyad is now published 45 times per year, with seven of these issues covering two-week spans.
Like most weekly newspapers, circulation at Novy Vzglyad has been declining for many years. Advertising revenue has been declining at rates between 10% to 20% annually in recent years. Novy Vzglyad employs approximately 50 employees, down from over 200 at its peak (1995–1998).
The newspaper is in financial straights.
, Alexander Prokhanov
, Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Eduard Limonov
and his spouse Natalya Medvedeva
(which introduced herself as Novy Vzglyad representative in Paris
).
In Russia's War on Chechnya Yuri N. Maltsev wrote:
After this publication its author (Slava Mogutin
) forced to leave Russia. Mogutin was granted political asylum in the US with the support of Amnesty International
and PEN American Center
. Upon his arrival in New York City
, he shifted his focus to visual art and became an active member of the downtown
art scene. Since 1999, his photography has been exhibited internationally and featured in a wide range of publications including BUTT
, The New York Times
, The Village Voice
, i-D
, Visionaire
, and L’Uomo Vogue
.
Its headquarters and printing plant are located in Moskovskaya Pravda
building (Moscow
). Since 2000 NVPH’s portfolio includes only three newspaper including Muzykaljnaya Pravda weekly.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
published in Moscow, Russia. It used to be well known for its commentaries on politics and social issues in 1990s.
History
It was founded in early 1992 by VID (originally created as a voice for the TV show with the same name). Later Kirsan IlyumzhinovKirsan Ilyumzhinov
Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov is a Kalmyk multi-millionaire businessman and politician. He was the President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and he has been the President of FIDE , the world's pre-eminent international chess organization, since 1995...
bought the newspaper and merged it with the another journal. It is currently owned by him and former TV host (of Vzglyad show) Yevgeny Dodolev.
Starting as a weekly, the Novy Vzglyad is now published 45 times per year, with seven of these issues covering two-week spans.
Like most weekly newspapers, circulation at Novy Vzglyad has been declining for many years. Advertising revenue has been declining at rates between 10% to 20% annually in recent years. Novy Vzglyad employs approximately 50 employees, down from over 200 at its peak (1995–1998).
The newspaper is in financial straights.
Credo
Although the Novy Vzglyad never lost its touches of humor, it soon established itself as a pre-eminent forum for serious journalism. On issues of civil rights and individual liberties, it is consistently liberal. The most prominent Russian writers wrote for the publication, including Vitaly KorotichVitaly Korotich
Vitaly Korotich is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian writer and journalist,.Vitaly Korotich was born in 1936 in Kiev. In 1959 he graduated from the Kiev Medical University. Vitaly Korotich worked as a doctor between 1959 and 1966. Later, he became as a full-time writer, and served as an officer of...
, Alexander Prokhanov
Alexander Prokhanov
Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov is a Soviet and Russian writer. He is a member of the secretariat of the Writers Union of the Russian Federation and the editor-in-chief of ultra-nationalist newspaper "Завтра" ....
, Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Eduard Limonov
Eduard Limonov
Eduard Limonov is Russian writer and political dissident, and is the founder and leader of radical National Bolshevik Party. An opponent of Vladimir Putin, Limonov is one of leaders of Other Russia political bloc.-Early life:...
and his spouse Natalya Medvedeva
Natalya Medvedeva
Natalya Medvedeva was a Russian poet, writer, musician, and member of Tribunal rock band.-Career:...
(which introduced herself as Novy Vzglyad representative in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
).
Affairs and scandals
Novy Vzglyad has a long track record of creating scandals, earning itself the moniker "Dirtdigger" (in Russian, Грязекопатель). Printing some comments were deemed "hooliganism" by the Moscow deputy prosecutor, who, despite Dodolev's independence from state bureaucracies tried to pressure the newspaper out of business in 1993 and 1994.- Newspaper used to be known for its sensational covers – including one of Lenin's face grafted onto the body of a weight-lifter (1993).
- Alexander KorzhakovAlexander KorzhakovAlexander Vasilyevich Korzhakov , was a KGB general who served as Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard, confidant, and adviser for 11 years. Member of State Duma at 1997. He was the head of the Presidential Security Service in 1993-1996, State Duma deputy, and retired Lieutenant-general...
, former chief of the RF president's security service, told journalists that
Berezovsky had tried to talk him into assassinating Vladimir GusinskyVladimir GusinskyVladimir 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....
, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, singer and Duma deputy Joseph KobzonJoseph KobzonIosif Davydovich Kobzon is a Soviet and Russian singer, known for his crooner style.-Early life:Kobzon was born to Jewish parents in the mining town of Chasiv Yar, in the Donbass region of Ukraine....
, and others (Novy Vzglyad newspaper, 19 October 1996).
- Several journalists writing on controversial issues have found that the Judicial Chamber plays a negative role:
In 1993, Yaroslav Mogutin, one of the country’s few openly gay journalists, was arrested, held overnight in jail, and charged with "hooliganism" for using profane language in an interview with a prominent gay dancer that was published in Novy Vzglyad, a weekly nationalist newspaper distributed as a supplement to Moskovskaya PravdaMoskovskaya PravdaMoskovskaya pravda , is a leading daily morning newspaper of Russia, and formerly of the Soviet Union. It was first published in 1918....
. Charges were also filed against the weekly, even though the use of profane language had become quite common in many papers, including the high-circulation Moskovskij Komsomolets. The case was eventually dropped, but not before Mogutin and his partner were harassed by local policemen who would repeatedly come to their apartment in the middle of the night to extort money, threatening the couple with criminal prosecution if they did not comply.
- One of the main points of criticism that has been brought against Novy Vzglyad concerns the language that used to be cultivated in the newspaper. Example: Soviet coup plotter says he was drunk:
... from alcohol: Don't you think so?" Yanayev told the newspaper Novy Vzglyad. Yanayev and 11 others are to go on trial on April 14 ... prepared in the KGB, and that the current Russian Defense Minister, Pavel Grachev, took part in drafting it.
- ZhirinovskyVladimir ZhirinovskyVladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a Russian politician, colonel of the Russian Army, founder and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia , Vice-Chairman of the State Duma, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe....
's confession:
Zhirinovsky complained to an interviewer from the Moscow journal Novy Vzglyad: Where was I born now? In a foreign country, it seems.
- A special correspondent for Novy Vzglyad Vera Svechina became a stripper in Las-Vegas.
- Covering Chechnya Wars.
In 1995, after Mogutin published an article on the war in Chechnya in the January issue of Novy Vzglyad, the Judicial Chamber held two hearings on his writings and accused Mogutin of violating Article 74-1 of the Penal Code, which calls for a prison term of up to 7 years for "incitement of ethnic hatred, corruption of public morals and defamation of the Motherland." The Chamber recommended that the state shut down Novy Vzglyad, revoke its publishing license, and launch a criminal case against Mogutin. Based on this recommendation, the prosecutor’s office opened an investigation against him in April 1995. As a result of the continuing harassment, Mogutin went to the United States to seek asylum.
In Russia's War on Chechnya Yuri N. Maltsev wrote:
Russian media have depicted the Chechen nation as thugs and bandits responsible for organized crime and street violence in Russia. Russian "journalist" Mogutin wrote in the journal Novy Vzglyad (A New Glance) of the Chechen nation "that it had given the world absolutely nothing except international terrorism and drugs business" and he remarked also "that any Russian feels towards the Chechens a zoological, genetic, animal hatred."
After this publication its author (Slava Mogutin
Slava Mogutin
Slava Mogutin is a New York-based Russian artist and author, who works across different media, including photography, video, text, installation, sculpture and painting.-Life and work:...
) forced to leave Russia. Mogutin was granted political asylum in the US with the support of Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
and PEN American Center
PEN American Center
PEN American Center , founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. The Center has a membership of 3,300 writers, editors, and translators...
. Upon his arrival in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, he shifted his focus to visual art and became an active member of the downtown
Downtown
Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's core or central business district ....
art scene. Since 1999, his photography has been exhibited internationally and featured in a wide range of publications including BUTT
Butt (magazine)
BUTT is a quarterly magazine for gay men, founded in 2001 and edited by Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom. , it has an estimated worldwide circulation of 24,000....
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The Village Voice
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
, i-D
I-D
i-D is a British magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture. i-D was founded by designer and former Vogue art director Terry Jones in 1980. The first issue was published in the form of a hand-stapled fanzine with text produced on a typewriter...
, Visionaire
Visionaire
Visionaire is an art and fashion publication that has come out in limited, numbered editions three times a year since spring 1991. Each issue has a specific format and theme around which prominent artists, designers, photographers, and others guests edit the publication...
, and L’Uomo Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
.
- The very same Mogutin wrote essay "Bitches – Big and Small" (in Russian "Суки большие и малые"):
Even famous women-politicians and public figures are sometimes abused in the gutter press, and you may see a porno collage or drawing including the face of a famous politician. The New View (Novy Vzglyad) magazine, for instance, published an article in June 1994 which was entitled "Bitches – Big and Small", in which all famous Russian women-leaders of the past and present
were derided, and nobody even thought of taking the authors to court, while if the subject had been man-politician proceedings would no doubt have started.
Publishing house
In 1995 the weekly newspaper grown into publishing house (publishing company). During 1995-1999 Novy Vzglyad Publishing House published nine magazines and periodicals (print and online) in Russia and CIS countries. It ended its four-year print run for magazines, due to economic difficulties of 1998 Russian financial crisis.Its headquarters and printing plant are located in Moskovskaya Pravda
Moskovskaya Pravda
Moskovskaya pravda , is a leading daily morning newspaper of Russia, and formerly of the Soviet Union. It was first published in 1918....
building (Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
). Since 2000 NVPH’s portfolio includes only three newspaper including Muzykaljnaya Pravda weekly.