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
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