Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky is a Russia

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n media

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 baron

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, is known as the founder of Media-Most holding that included Most Bank, the NTV

NTV Russia

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 channel, the newspaper

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 Segodnya and magazines.
Gusinsky was born in Moscow

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.

Alexander Korzhakov

Alexander Korzhakov

Alexander Vasilyevich Korzhakov , was a KGB general who served as Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard, confidant, and adviser for 11 years. Member of State Duma at 1997. He was the head of the Presidential Security Service in 1993-1996, State Duma deputy, and retired Lieutenant-general...

, former chief of the RF president's security service, told journalists that Berezovsky

Berezovsky

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 had tried to talk him into assassinating Vladimir Gusinsky, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, singer and Duma deputy Joseph Kobzon

Joseph Kobzon

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, and others (Novy Vzglyad

Novy Vzglyad

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 newspaper, 19 October 1996).

After moving abroad in the summer of 2001 he created satellite TV broadcasting company RTVi

RTVi

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, which portrays the events in Russia as presented by the TV network Echo

Echo TV Russia

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's journalists.