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Gazprom-Media (Russian: ОАО Газпром-Медиа) is a Russian media holding company. Gazprom-Media was established in January 1998 as a subsidiary of Gazprom Media Holdings.[2] It and its parent company are subsidiaries of Gazprom, a large Russian company founded in 1989, which carries on the business of extraction, production, transport, and sale of natural gas.[3][4] The group owns more than 38 television channels and 10 radio stations.
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Mass media |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Key people | Aleksandr Zharov, CEO Alexey Miller, Chairman |
| Revenue | $126 million[1] (2017) |
| $9.13 million[1] (Į) | |
| $11 million[1] (2017) | |
| Total assets | $75.4 million[1] (2017) |
| Total equity | $24.4 million[1] (2017) |
| Owner | Gazprom |
| Parent | Gazprombank |
| Subsidiaries | NTV, NTV Plus, Echo of Moscow, Rutube, Tribuna, GPM-Radio |
| Website | www.gazprom-media.com |
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 Seven days (publishing house) (Семь дней) publishing house, which raised a major controversy and resulted in considerable changes to its editorial policy.[4][5][6][7]
After Gazprom-Media took over "Media Most" in 2000, Gazprom-Media received Filipp Bobkov's entire former KGB 5th directorate (Political police)[a] including all its thousands of employees, its database and the Bobkov founded security service that was accused of attempting to assassinate Boris Berezovsky in 1994.[8][9] The entire archive of 5th KGB Main Directorate was taken to Media-Most.[10] In 2000, Bobkov created the Institute for Strategic Assessments and Analysis (ISOA) (Russian: Институт стратегических оценок и анализа (ИСОА)), a joint stock company (JSC). It operated as a think tank successor to Media Most's security department with the former head of KGB in Azerbaijan Vaqif Hüseynov (Russian: Вагиф Алиовсат оглы Гусейнов, b. born November 27, 1942, Quba, Azerbaijan). The director of ISOA from 2001 to 2002 Vladimir Zhizhin was chairman of the board.[11][12][b]
In 2005, Gazprom-Media purchased Izvestia, a leading nationwide newspaper.[4] In May 2008, Sergei Fursenko's National Media Group gained a 50.1% stake in Izvestia.[c]
For 37.22 billion rubles in August 2005, Gazprom-Media Holdings was sold to Gazprombank. In 2012 OJSC Gazprom owned a 41.73% stake in Gazprombank and NPF Gazfond owned a 46.92% stake in Gazprom.[4][2][15] As of 2012, most of the stake in Yuri Shamalov's associated Gazfond is managed by Anatoly Gavrilenko's Leader (management company) (Russian: ЗАО «Лидер») a management company which is part of the SOGAZ insurance group controlled by the Vladimir Putin associated Rossiya Bank. Yuri Kovalchuk is its largest shareholder.[2][15][16] In March 2014, Rossiya Bank sold its indirect control of Lider to Gasfond which owns a 45% stake in Lider.[15] As of November 2014, Gasfond is the largest shareholder in Gazprombank which controls Gazprom-Media.[15][d]
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