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NTV (Cyrillic: НТВ, meaning: ''National Television'') is a Russian television channel that was launched as a subsidiary of Vladimir Gusinsky's company Media-Most.〔Viktor Shenderovich, "Tales From Hoffman" (''sic'') (48–57), ''Index on Censorship'', Volume 37, Number 1, 2008, p. 50.〕 Since April 14, 2001, Gazprom Media has controlled NTV. == History == Vladimir Gusinsky founded NTV in 1993, attracting talented journalists and news anchors of the time such as Tatiana Mitkova, Leonid Parfyonov, Mikhail Osokin, Yevgeniy Kiselyov, Vladimir A. Kara-Murza, Victor Shenderovich and others. The channel set high professional standards in the Russian television, giving live coverage and sharp analysis of current events. Starting before the dissolution of Soviet Union as Fourth Programme, the channel broadcast a daily news programme ''Today'' and a weekly news commentary programme ''Itogi''.〔G. Kertman, (Star Wars (Political Commentators on Television) ), The Public Opinion Foundation, 1 March 2000.〕 In the early 1990s, Video International, a multi-billion dollar advertising agency, obtained exclusive advertising rights on NTV. It favourably commented on President Boris Yeltsin's re-election campaign in 1996. By 1999, NTV had achieved an audience of 102 million, covering about 70% of Russia's territory, and was available in other former Soviet republics.〔(NTV: Timeline of events ), CNN, 10 April 2001.〕 During parliamentary elections in 1999 and presidential elections in 2000, NTV was critical of the Second Chechen War, Vladimir Putin and the political party Unity backed by him. In the puppet show ''Kukly'' in the beginning of February 2000, the puppet of Putin acted as Little Zaches in a story based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Little Zaches called Cinnabar", in which blindness causes villagers mistake an evil gnome for a beautiful youth.〔Viktor Shenderovich, "Tales From Hoffman" (48–57), ''Index on Censorship'', Volume 37, Number 1, 2008, p. 49.〕 This provoked a fierce reaction of Putin's supporters. On 8 February, the newspaper ''Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti'' published a letter signed by the Rector of St. Petersburg State University Lyudmila Verbitskaya, the Dean of its Law Department Nikolay Kropachyov and some of Putin's other presidential campaign assistants that urged to prosecute the authors of the show for what they considered a criminal offence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「NTV (Russia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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