Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky is a Russian media tycoon. He founded the Media-Most holding company that included the NTV free-to-air channel, the newspaper Segodnya, and a number of magazines.
Sergey Vladimirovich Shnurov is a Russian musician and songwriter, best known as Shnur, of the ska-punk band Leningrad which he formed in 1997. The group disbanded between 2008 and 2010, during which time Shnur formed Rubl with other members of Leningrad.
Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev is a Russian singer. He is most famous for his singing career, when he rose to fame as a member of the group Smash!!. The group broke up in 2006. Since then Lazarev has pursued a solo career. He represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, and finished in third place, coming first in the televote. He represented Russia again at Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel with the song "Scream", and similarly finished in third place.
Gazprom-Media is a Russian media holding company. Gazprom-Media was established in January 1998 as a subsidiary of Gazprom Media Holdings. It and its parent company are subsidiaries of Gazprom, a large Russian company founded in 1989, which carries on the business of extraction, production, transport, and sale of natural gas. The group owns more than 38 television channels and 10 radio stations.
2×2 is a Russian television channel. Founded in 1989, it was the first commercial TV station in the Soviet Union. The channel was shut down from 1997 to 2003, at which point it was started up again. Since then, the channel has predominantly broadcast foreign animated TV series, including children's television series, anime, and adult animation shows.
Filipp Denisovich Bobkov was a Soviet and Russian KGB functionary, who worked as the chief of the KGB subunit responsible for repressing dissent, which was responsible for suppression of internal dissent in the former Soviet Union. He was widely regarded the chief KGB ideologist or "KGB brain".
TV Centre is a Russian public television station with the fourth largest coverage area in Russia, after Channel One, Russia-1 and NTV. It is owned by the administration of the city of Moscow and is dedicated to programming that highlights various aspects of Moscow life. The channel airs across Russian territory.
Sergei Pavlovich Roldugin is a Russian cellist and businessman based in St Petersburg. He is a close friend of Vladimir Putin. He has been implicated in several money laundering and offshore wealth schemes for Russian elites. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union sanctioned Roldugin.
The Ukrainian News Agency is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian news agency. It produces and provides political, business and financial information, as well as a popular photo reporting service. Since February 2008 the company is part of the Inter Media Group Ltd., formerly U.A. Inter Media Group, which itself is a subsidiary of the Russian-based company GDF Media Ltd. Inter Media Group Limited also owns 61% of the Ukrainian TV channel Inter.
Disney Channel was a Russian free-to-air family federal channel, which was the local version of the American Disney Channel.
Lilia Faridovna Gildeeva is a Russian journalist who worked for the NTV news program Segodnya from 2006 to 2022. She is famous for joking on air with her partner and colleague Alexey Pivovarov.
TV Rain is an independent Russian-language television channel. Launched in Russia in 2010, it has been based in the Netherlands since 2023. It focuses on news, discussions, culture, politics, business reports, and documentaries. TV Rain is owned by journalist Natalya Sindeyeva. Its slogan is "Optimistic Channel."
Alexey Pivovarov is a Russian journalist, media manager and documentary filmmaker. His YouTube channel Redaktsiya has amassed more than 4 million subscribers and over 1.1 billion views as of June 2023. In 2022, the Russian Ministry of Justice placed Pivovarov on the foreign agents list for his condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and longstanding critical attitude toward the Russian authorities.
Rutube, stylized as RUTUBE, is a Russian video platform. It includes a library of licensed content including movies, series, cartoons, shows, and live broadcasts. It also hosts blogs, podcasts, video game streams, and educational content.
Sergey Fedorovich Lisovsky is a Russian politician, who was a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation in 2004–2020, a representative of the Kurgan Regional Duma. TV host channel RBC TV. In the past - the entrepreneur. Candidate of Philology (2000). Member of the General Council of the party United Russia. It is one of the pioneers of the Russian social and political advertisements and an acknowledged expert on the contemporary electoral technologies..
This article contains the list of candidates associated with the 2004 Russian presidential election.
Natalya Vladimirovna Sindeyeva is a Russian journalist, founder, main owner and chief executive officer of the TV Rain media holding, which includes the TV Rain channel, the Republic.ru online magazine and the Big City magazine. She is the co-founder and former general producer of the Silver Rain radio station, and founder of the Silver Galosh anti-award. She is also a three-times winner of the "Media Manager of Russia" prize, an honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Radio.
Yekaterina Besikiyevna Kotrikadze is a Georgian-Russian journalist and media manager, host of the TV Rain channel and the former head of the information service of the RTVI TV channel.
Yellow, Black and White (YBW) Group is a Russian company, engaged in TV shows, series and movies production. The main company's partner from 2008 to 2017 is "STS" TV channel. In the period from 2018 till 2020 YBW was cooperating with "Super" TV channel, but also it was creating the content for Channel One, Russia-1, NTV and others TV channels.
Anton Sergeyevich Troianovski is a Soviet-born American journalist. He is the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times and the former Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post.
