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Gazprom-Media
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryMass media
Founded1998
HeadquartersSaint 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)
OwnerGazprom
ParentGazprombank
SubsidiariesNTV, NTV Plus, Echo of Moscow, Rutube, Tribuna, GPM-Radio
Websitewww.gazprom-media.com

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.

History

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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) [ru] (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 [ru] (Russian: Вагиф Алиовсат оглы Гусейнов, b. born November 27, 1942, Quba, Azerbaijan). The director of ISOA from 2001 to 2002 Vladimir Zhizhin [ru] 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 [ru] 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) [ru] (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]

Media assets

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Television

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Radio (via subsidiary GPM-Radio)

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Paper publications

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  • Seven Days Publishing House[18]
    • Seven Days (TV guide)[18][19]
    • Story Caravan (monthly magazine)
    • Story Caravan Collection (monthly magazine)

Internet

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  • Rutube
  • Вокруг ТВ
    • SRSLY
  • Sportbox.ru
  • УМА-ТЕХ
  • Premier
  • Getintent
  • 2x2.Медиа

Movie and cinema

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Directors General

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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)

Board of directors

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Alexey Miller (chairman)
Aleksandr Zharov
Yuri Shamalov
Alaxey Matveev
Sergey Kupriyanov
Sergey Kuznets[20]

Management

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Source:[21]

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

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ 5th Directorate KGB was responsible for disinformation, control of dissidents, religious groups, and executions.
  2. ^ Zhinzhin was close to Arne Treholt.[13]
  3. ^ 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]
  4. ^ Since 2003, Yuri Shamalov has been the President of Gazfond.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Бухгалтерская отчётность". Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Как создавался и развивался "Газпром-медиа холдинг": Досье" [How Gazprom-Media Holding was created and developed: Dossier]. Kommersant (in Russian). 15 February 2012. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  3. ^ Цвик, В. (Tsvik, V.); Качкаева, А. (Kachkaeva, A.). "Реформы в обществе и на телевидении" [Reforms in society and on television]. tvmuseum.ru website (in Russian). Archived from the original on 11 November 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2021. See section Телевидение, власть и капитал (Television, power and capital) on page 5.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b c d Газпром [Gazprom] (in Russian). lenta.ru. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
  5. ^ Общество: "Газпром" может стать хозяином "Медиа-Моста" к середине 2001 года [Gazprom can become the owner of Media-Most by mid-2001] (in Russian). lenta.ru. November 13, 2000. Archived from the original on May 9, 2018. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
  6. ^ Сурганова, Елизавета (Surganova, Elizaveta); Соболев, Сергей (Sobolev, Sergei); Русяева, Полина (Rusyaeva, Paulina) (7 November 2015). ""Я все могу": чем запомнился бывший министр печати Михаил Лесин: Скончался бывший министр печати и до недавнего времени — один из самых влиятельных людей российского медиарынка Михаил Лесин" ["I can do anything": what is the memory of the former Minister of the Press Mikhail Lesin: Former press minister and, until recently, one of the most influential people on the Russian media market, Mikhail Lesin, has passed away]. RBC (РБК) (in Russian). Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Медиа-Мост: История" [Media Most: History]. Медиа-Мост (mediamost.ru) (in Russian). August 2000. Archived from the original on 18 August 2000. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  8. ^ Ideologist for all times Archived 2005-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, by Felix Shemedlovsky, (in Russian) Vedomosti
  9. ^ Григорьев, Андрей (Grigoriev, Andrei) (28 March 2000). Аполитичный Гусинский. Apolitical Gusinsky. (in Russian). «Компания» — деловой еженедельник (Company). Archived from the original on 12 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  10. ^ Ideologist for all times Archived 2005-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, by Felix Shemedlovsky, (in Russian) Vedomosti, A slightly different version
  11. ^ "Записки бывшего подполковника КГБ: Секретная служба "телекиллера" Доренко. В этой части Попов пишет об исследовательских институтах, работавших на КГБ, гибели экс-мэра Санкт-Петербурга Анатолия Собчака и роли спецслужб в судьбе телеведущего Сергея Доренко" [Notes of Former KGB Lieutenant Colonel: Secret Service of "Telekiller" Dorenko. In this part, Popov writes about research institutes working for the KGB, the death of the ex-mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak and the role of the special services in the fate of TV anchor Sergei Dorenko.]. Gordonua (in Russian). 20 May 2020. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Гусейнов Вагиф Алиовсатович" [Huseynov Vagif Aliovsat]. viperson.ru (in Russian). 15 May 2003. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  13. ^ Смирнов, Алексей (Smirnov, Alexey) (24 September 2010). "ндал, шитый клейкой лентой" [Scandel sewn with duct tape]. Novye Izvestia (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ Рождественский, Илья (Rozhdestvensky, Ilya) (19 November 2019). "Стоимость недвижимости семьи Кабаевой достигла 1,25 млрд рублей. Как получены дома и при чем тут "Газпром"" [The value of the real estate of the Kabaeva family has reached 1.25 billion rubles. How did you get at home and what does Gazprom have to do with it?]. «Открытые медиа» (in Russian). Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ a b c d Grey, Stephen; Bergin, Tom; Musaieva, Sevgil; Anin, Roman (26 November 2014). Woods, Richard (ed.). "Comrade Capitalism the Kiev Connection: Sidebar Graphic Gazprombank". Reuters. Moscow/Kyiv. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  16. ^ Belton, Catherine (30 November 2011). "How Gazprom lost control of Gazprombank". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 20 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Yuri Shamalov: President, Npf Gazfond". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on February 20, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  18. ^ a b "7Дней.ру - Новости, интервью, фото и видео звезд". 7Дней.ру. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  19. ^ 7 Days: The Russian Oracle, 7 April 2010.Accessed: 5 December 2010.
  20. ^ "Gazprom-Media Holding Leadership". gazprom-media.com. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  21. ^ "Leadership".
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