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  1. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky ( Russian: Владимир Александрович Гусинский, [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡʊˈsʲinskʲɪj]; born 6 October 1952) is a Russian media tycoon. He founded the Media-Most holding company that included the NTV [1] free-to-air channel, the newspaper Segodnya, and a number ...

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  2. Mar 29, 2022 · He first aimed at Vladimir Gusinsky, the rare oligarch who built most of his wealth from scratch as opposed to merely taking over extractive industries that once belonged to the government....

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  3. Mar 18, 2022 · In 2000, Putin arrested media baron Vladimir Gusinsky on charges of fraud and forced him to sell his media properties, including his crown jewel REN-TV, to state-owned Gazprom.

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  5. May 2, 2024 · Vladimir Gusinsky (born Oct. 6, 1952, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) is a Russian businessman who built a media empire in Russia in the late 20th century. His holdings included television, radio, newspapers, and magazines known both for their professionalism and for the critical stance they often adopted toward Kremlin policies.

  6. Mar 22, 2022 · Two of the oligarchs, Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, controlled two of the three major Russian television networks — and they blanketed the airwaves with pro-Yeltsin propaganda. Fueled...

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  7. Dec 6, 2023 · Gusinsky, whose media holdings were critical of Putin and even satirized him, was hauled into jail amid an investigation of misappropriated funds; within weeks, he agreed to sell his holdings to an arm of Russia’s state natural gas monopoly, and he left the country.

  8. Apr 5, 2022 · Gusinsky, who made his money by snapping up metal-mining companies in the first wave of privatization, in 1993 founded the Media-Most holding company that controlled NTV, one of Russia’s most ...

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