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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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Television
Radio (via subsidiary GPM-Radio)
- AvtoRadio
- Comedy Radio
- Detskoe Radio
- Like FM
- NRJ Russia
- Radio Romantika (Moscow exclusive, formerly nationwide)
- Radio Zenit (Saint Petersburg exclusive; joint venture with FC Zenit)
- Relax FM
- Yumor FM
Paper publications
Internet
- Rutube
- 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
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- 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)
- Alexey Miller (chairman)
- Aleksandr Zharov
- Yuri Shamalov
- Alaxey Matveev
- Sergey Kupriyanov
- Sergey Kuznets[20]
Source:[21]
- Aleksandr Zharov (CEO, Member of the Board of Directors)
- Svetlana Fefilova (Deputy CEO)
- Yulia Golubeva (Deputy CEO)
- Tina Kandelaki (Deputy CEO)
- Zhinzhin was close to Arne Treholt.[13]
- Investors in National Media Group (NMG) (Russian: Национальная Медиа Группа), 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 Vladimir Putin.[14]
- Since 2003, Yuri Shamalov has been the President of Gazfond.[17]
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