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Russia: Loss of robber baron Media Influence Bemoaned |
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by Henry AKA DAN "Mr. Irrelevance" Disinfo
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30 Jan 2004
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Radio station Ekho Moskvy, or Echo of Moscow, may be living on borrowed time, writes Anna Dolgov for The Moscow Times: “Its journalists, who say they are caught in constant disputes with government-linked majority shareholder Gazprom, seem ready to throw in the towel. They want to sell out their blocking stake in the station - and with it, control over programming.” Ekho Moskvy was once part of oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-MOST empire, which was taken over in 2001 by government-controlled Gazprom. |
The Moscow Times: “Gazprom replaced the top managers at Media-MOST's flagship television network NTV, shut down its daily newspaper Segodnya, and sacked the journalists of Itogi magazine. Only Ekho Moskvy was left relatively unscathed. ‘We have already lasted three years longer than the time allotted us,’ Venediktov said. ‘When NTV was crushed, we should have followed immediately because we were more critical.’"
Russian president Putin has been criticized for his attacks on the “independence” of the Russian media. Whites would argue that Putin has simply been trying to make the Russian media independent of Jewish control. f Russian efforts to strip Jews of their power: “Putin is a strong leader and has taken significant steps to curb Jewish power in Russia. He has appointed his own puppet to head their community, he has recovered key aspects of the Russian media, and effectively disempowered several Jewish 'robber barons,' previously the ultimate wielders of civil power in his country.”
The Moscow Times: “Alexei Samokhvalov, head of the National Research Center for Television and Radio, said Gazprom may be reluctant to buy out the shares over fears that turning Ekho Moskvy into a fully owned subsidiary would damage the station's reputation, thus costing it part of the audience and profits. ‘In this country, like nowhere else in the world, we are interested in who the owners are, who is behind all this, and can this be trusted,’ Samokhvalov said,” a statement that Whites in the West have discovered the importance of.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/01/29/003.html |
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