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Gazprom-Media Holding

Gazprom-Media Holding is one of Russia’s largest media conglomerates, controlling nearly 20 television and radio channels plus digital platforms. Key assets include flagship channel NTV, sports network Match TV, entertainment channel TNT, and digital platforms like Rutube and PREMIER. The company also operates extensive radio networks, including Energy and Autoradio. Classified as “Captured Public/State-Managed,” Gazprom Media maintains complex state control through Gazprombank ownership, ultimately tracing to entities close to President Putin. The company’s flagship channel, NTV, has been documented by the EU’s disinformation monitoring service as running coverage that named individual European diplomats and cast them as “curators” secretly directing Russian civil society activists, implying the activists were foreign agents rather than independent actors, while the activists themselves were accused of betraying their country.

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