Vladimir Gusinsky

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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky (Владимир Гусинский in Russian) (born 1952), a Russian Jewish media baron, is known as the founder of Media-Most holding that included Most Bank, the NTV channel, the newspaper Segodnya and magazines.

After moving abroad in the summer of 2001 he created a satellite TV broadcasting company RTVi which portrays the events in Russia as presented by the TV network Echo's journalists. The related web site newsru.com carries textual, photo and video news from Russia.

According to the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews [link], Mr. Gusinsky is a very close friend of U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos.

He holds Israeli citizenship and often resides in Israel, where he has been under investigation for money laundering.

Vladimir Gusinsku is responsible for creating the first independent TV channel in Russia as well as setting the course for professional and objective TV news coverage in Russia. The emergence of 'NTV+', an offshoot from NTV channel, was a groundbraking event for Russian media. NTV+ was the first satelite channel ever to broadcast in the former USSR.

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