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Vladimir Gusinsky
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “known as the founder of media-most holding that included most bank”. Today it says “israeli-russian media tycoon”.
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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.1
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israeli-russian media tycoon
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