pictures of Kiselyov

(14 Apr 2001)

1. Exterior TNT headquarters
2. Various NTV staff walking down the stairs
3. Corridor with journalists standing
4. Set-up of Yevgeny Kiselyov
5. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yevgeny Kiselyov, Former NTV General Manager "Shareholders of TV-6 offered me to take a position of acting general director of this TV company until the moment of the final decision is taken by the meeting of TV-6 shareholders which will take place in a month or around that time. I thankfully took this offer."
6. Cutaway of journalists
7. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yevgeny Kiselyov, Former NTV General Manager "A viewer votes by switching programme buttons (on his/her remote control). The time and the ranking (of the TV channels) will show everything."
8. Cutaway of journalists
9. Kiselyov walking away
10. NTV staff
11. TNT corridor full of NTV staff

STORYLINE:

Russia's television wars continued late on Saturday with disgruntled former journalists of the N-T-V channel vowing to continue their fight for an independent media.

Former N-T-V boss, Yevgeny Kiselyov, met the group of journalists who walked out of the station earlier on Saturday and said he had accepted an offer to take over the management of another Moscow station, T-V-6.

Kiselyov arrived back in the Russian capital from Spain on hearing N-T-V's new management had begun asserting its hold.

At an evening meeting with his colleagues, Kiselyov said he would become acting head of the T-V-6 channel in Moscow.

N-T-V journalists arriving for work on Saturday morning found their offices blocked by security staff loyal to the new owner.

As a result, many of them resigned from the channel and refused to sign documents presented to them by their employer, Gazprom.

Gazprom, which is 38.4 per cent owned by the state and whose board chairman is a top Kremlin official and ally of President Vladimir Putin, claims it took over the station to protect the value of its stake in N-T-V.

But many liberals, including lawmakers and intellectuals, say the N-T-V takeover has been orchestrated by the Kremlin to silence the television channel that has been most critical of Russia's war in Chechnya, corruption and the country's declining living standards.

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