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Wednesday June 14, 2000 3:19 PM
Ted Turner - Russian Oligarch?
Citing a senior official in President Vladimir Putin’s
administration, Russia’s Political News Agency reported
Wednesday that CNN founder Ted Turner will lead an international
consortium in the external management of the media empire run by
Vladimir Gusinsky - the oligarch arrested in Moscow on Tuesday.
Russian bankruptcy law allows for a company to be placed under
external management if it has three-month-old debts to its
creditors in excess of 500 minimum wages - a sum roughly equal
to $20,000. Gusinsky’s creditors include the
government-controlled gas monopoly and the government-controlled
state bank.
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office said Wednesday that
Gusinsky was arrested on charges of embezzling the ruble
equivalent of $10 million from the government. But advocates of
press freedom in Russia and abroad are outraged by Gusinsky’s
arrest and say it is part of an orchestrated attempt to silence
open debate on the policies being pursued by the government.
The jewel in Gusinsky’s empire is NTV - the only Russian
television station with national pretensions that isn’t
controlled by the Kremlin.
NTV and other media sources controlled by Media-Most have been
the most vocal critics of Putin and his war on Chechnya.
The idea that Russia would allow an American to control one of
its most powerful media companies may seem outlandish until you
consider the following:
* On May 11 Ted Turner became the first Western businessman to
have an audience with President Putin - the very day dozens of
armed tax police in masks stormed the headquarters of NTV.
* Putin and Turner have known each other since 1994, when Putin,
as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, oversaw preparations for the
Goodwill Games, which was organized by Turner.
* Rumors of financial improprieties by Putin’s team during the
Goodwill Games - which Putin now calls "a great feat" - were
legion.
* Allowing a prominent American media mogul to have external
control of Media-MOST’s news outlets would effectively silence
press-freedom critics. After all, CNN is free to criticize the
U.S. government, right?
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