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Thursday, September 16, 2004
Bleg! Please help!
Anyone know anything about the Moscow Times? What is the ownership structure, where are the reporters based, and why do most of them have very non-Russian names? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
CEO Derk Sauer - Independent Media, described as "a privately owned limited liability Dutch company." http://www.rnw.nl/special/en/html/040302ufs.html http://www.themoscowtimes.com/doc/AboutIM.html
Reason for the names is -- it is English language paper.
Funnily enough, the jump says "Derk Sauer, a former Dutch fellow-traveller, takes stock of a lightning career in publishing, which has developed in a remarkable parallel with Russia´s transformation to a market economy." Translation: Capitalist communist from Netherlands
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/doc/AboutIM.html ------------- "The Independent Media is mostly owned by the Dutch, which leaves the company in quite a comfortable position. The IM is famous for its successful launches of the Hearst magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Harper’s Bazaar, plus Marie Claire and Men’s Health. Starting from January 1999 most of them will be out six or seven times a year and the number of copies will be reduced to a maximum 100,000." Source: http://www.fipp.com/903
Read this article. Anne-Marie Van Gaal is shown in places as a co-founder with Sauer of Independent Media.
http://www.exile.ru/108/sign.php
------------- Independent Media, owner of St. Petersburg Times http://www.times.spb.ru/archive/times/183-184/menatep.html
IM and Menatep "The Menatep Group includes Menatep Bank, Russia's 11th largest, and a wide range of holdings in Russian industrial companies. It also has close ties to the Russian government.
During the controversial loans-for-shares privatization program late last year, Menatep won a controlling slice of Yukos, Russia's second-largest oil company, in what most observers regarded as a rigged auction." ------------- So they are werrry werrry well connected.
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CEO Derk Sauer - Independent Media, described as "a privately owned limited liability Dutch company."
http://www.rnw.nl/special/en/html/040302ufs.html
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/doc/AboutIM.html
Reason for the names is -- it is English language paper.
Funnily enough, the jump says
"Derk Sauer, a former Dutch fellow-traveller, takes stock of a lightning career in publishing, which has developed in a remarkable parallel with Russia´s transformation to a market economy."
Translation: Capitalist communist from Netherlands
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/doc/AboutIM.html
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"The Independent Media is mostly owned by the Dutch, which leaves the company in quite a comfortable position. The IM is famous for its successful launches of the Hearst magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Harper’s Bazaar, plus Marie Claire and Men’s Health. Starting from January 1999 most of them will be out six or seven times a year and the number of copies will be reduced to a maximum 100,000."
Source: http://www.fipp.com/903
Read this article. Anne-Marie Van Gaal is shown in places as a co-founder with Sauer of Independent Media.
http://www.exile.ru/108/sign.php
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Independent Media, owner of St. Petersburg Times
http://www.times.spb.ru/archive/times/183-184/menatep.html
IM and Menatep
"The Menatep Group includes Menatep Bank, Russia's 11th largest, and a wide range of holdings in Russian industrial companies. It also has close ties to the Russian government.
During the controversial loans-for-shares privatization program late last year, Menatep won a controlling slice of Yukos, Russia's second-largest oil company, in what most observers regarded as a rigged auction."
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So they are werrry werrry well connected.
One last article cause it kinda demonstrates the gangsterism of Russian businesses.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2000/07/14/072-print.html
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