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Claim

Claim 256

The new management removed NTV's founder and managing director from the board.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement
The new management removed NTV's founder and managing director from the board.
Field
action
Value
Founder and director removed
About
incident 2001-russia-gazprom-takeover-ntv
Source
Gazprom completes NTV takeover archived copy
Publisher
Committee to Protect Journalists
Method
outlet report
Checked
2026-09-22
Confidence
medium
Status
current
Source date
2001-04-14

Quotation from the source

The new management removed NTV founder Vladimir Gusinsky and managing director Yevgeny Kiselyov from the station's board of directors