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...unlikely that anyone could have rescued last week's victims. Both Segodnya and Itogi had earned the Kremlin's disapproval for their clear-eyed reporting on embarrassments such as the Kursk submarine disaster and the quagmire in Chechnya. The publications were owned by Gusinsky's Sem Dnei publishing house, of which Gazprom held a 25% stake plus one share; another 25% was held by Sem Dnei's president, Dmitry Biryukov. After watching Gazprom eviscerate NTV, Biryukov parted company with Gusinsky. On Monday night, one hour before Segodnya was supposed to go to press, Biryukov told editor-in-chief Mikhail Berger...
...found a Kremlin job for the then out-of-work Vladimir Putin. Borodin, who is being investigated in Switzerland on money-laundering charges, had been released on $3 million bail. The other main item was the assassination of the second-ranking member of the pro-Russian government in Chechnya, blown up while giving a TV interview in his home town. The attack once again demonstrated that Putin's confident promise a year ago to "rub out" Chechen leaders wherever they could be found - "in the latrine if necessary" - was little more than rhetoric...
...feckless and allegedly dishonest tycoon. In fact the move was born of Putin's deep dislike for that tycoon, NTV's owner and founder Vladimir Gusinsky, who could use his station for vendettas but also created a news operation highly critical of Putin's policies in places like Chechnya. Gazprom, meanwhile, is state-controlled and highly dependent on the Kremlin's graces. Moreover, the seizure was accompanied by an action that most shareholders could not have arranged: the respected news radio station Ekho Moskvy went off the air for a few minutes as guards moved into the NTV studios. (Ekho...
...Immediately after the raid, Putin unexpectedly flew to Chechnya to discuss reconstruction and other issues. The President has commented only sparingly on the NTV case, and he did not deviate from that practice in Chechnya. Indeed, if Putin's past behavior is any guide, the trip was intended to distance him as far as possible from the NTV crisis. Tellingly, a correspondent for the new NTV who accompanied the President did not ask him about...
...Budanov, 38, was a rising star in the Russian army when he came back to Chechnya as commander of the 160th tank regiment in September 1999. He was a hardened veteran of both Chechen wars, having earned two medals for valor and two early promotions that put him on the fast track to a general's stars. But that brilliant military career went off the rails when Budanov became the first high-ranking Russian officer to be charged with what amounts to a war crime: the abduction and premeditated murder of Kheda Kungayeva. Full Story...