Mikhail Lesin, Ex-Putin Aide, Died of Edgeless Force Trauma, Mikhail Lesin, the Russian media amount begin asleep in a Washington auberge allowance in November, fabricated his name in PR and commercial in the 1990s.
He founded commercial bureau Video All-embracing or Vi - still one of Russia's better - and went on to became arch of the accompaniment account bureau RIA Novosti.
In 1996, he devised the commercial attack that helped again Admiral Boris Yeltsin win re-election.
The US authorities are investigating his afterlife age-old 57. Coroners say he died as a aftereffect of edgeless force agony to the head.
His son - Anton Lessine - has fabricated a name for himself as a Hollywood blur producer.
Mikhail Lesin, already admired as a chargeless media pioneer, became one of the aboriginal in Russia to apostle abbreviating accompaniment ascendancy of the internet - a action the Kremlin appears to accept pursued with greater vigour in contempo years.
Ruling adjoin state
As abbot for communications and media (1999-2004), he oversaw the adverse takeover of NTV by state-controlled Gazprom-Media in 2000. It happened a ages afterwards Vladimir Putin was affidavit in as president.
At the time NTV, Russia's third civic TV station, was analytical of Kremlin policy, including the war in Chechnya. In the takeover, agent Vladimir Gusinsky absent ascendancy of NTV and added above media assets and was imprisoned.
In 2004, the European Court of Human Rights accustomed Mr Gusinsky's altercation that the accompaniment had affected him to advertise his media business in acknowledgment for artifice accuse adjoin him getting dropped. It ordered the Russian accompaniment to pay him €88,000 (£69,000, $97,700).
Lesin was aswell amenable for the cease of channels TV-6 and TVS and active in ambience up all-embracing anchorperson RT (Russia Today) in 2005, the Kremlin's TV advocate abroad.
His role in bringing media outlets into the Kremlin apogee becoming him the appellation The Bulldozer.
In November 2009, Lesin was sacked from his column of presidential media adviser, allegedly over a battle of interests.
He became arch of Gazprom-Media in 2013, administering NTV if it advertisement a amount of documentary films targeting the opposition.
He accommodated in backward 2014, citation ancestors reasons, but admired Russian bi-weekly RBK appear that he had collapsed out with a Gazprom-Media actor and abutting Putin associate, Yuri Kovalchuk.
US concerns
In 2014, the US Department of Justice and the FBI launched an analysis into Lesin's acreage in the US, amidst suspicions of bribery and money laundering.
In a 2014 letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder, US Senator Roger Wicker aloft apropos about the California acreage Lesin had bought back affective his ancestors to the US.
"He acquired assorted residences at a amount of over $28 million," he wrote. "That a Russian accessible assistant could accept accumulated the ample funds appropriate to access and advance these assets... raises austere questions."
He aswell acicular to an credible banking hotlink amid Lesin and Mr Kovalchuk, who is beneath EU-US sanctions, as is Mr Kovalchuk's Bank Rossiya.
He founded commercial bureau Video All-embracing or Vi - still one of Russia's better - and went on to became arch of the accompaniment account bureau RIA Novosti.
In 1996, he devised the commercial attack that helped again Admiral Boris Yeltsin win re-election.
The US authorities are investigating his afterlife age-old 57. Coroners say he died as a aftereffect of edgeless force agony to the head.
His son - Anton Lessine - has fabricated a name for himself as a Hollywood blur producer.
Mikhail Lesin, already admired as a chargeless media pioneer, became one of the aboriginal in Russia to apostle abbreviating accompaniment ascendancy of the internet - a action the Kremlin appears to accept pursued with greater vigour in contempo years.
Ruling adjoin state
As abbot for communications and media (1999-2004), he oversaw the adverse takeover of NTV by state-controlled Gazprom-Media in 2000. It happened a ages afterwards Vladimir Putin was affidavit in as president.
At the time NTV, Russia's third civic TV station, was analytical of Kremlin policy, including the war in Chechnya. In the takeover, agent Vladimir Gusinsky absent ascendancy of NTV and added above media assets and was imprisoned.
In 2004, the European Court of Human Rights accustomed Mr Gusinsky's altercation that the accompaniment had affected him to advertise his media business in acknowledgment for artifice accuse adjoin him getting dropped. It ordered the Russian accompaniment to pay him €88,000 (£69,000, $97,700).
Lesin was aswell amenable for the cease of channels TV-6 and TVS and active in ambience up all-embracing anchorperson RT (Russia Today) in 2005, the Kremlin's TV advocate abroad.
His role in bringing media outlets into the Kremlin apogee becoming him the appellation The Bulldozer.
In November 2009, Lesin was sacked from his column of presidential media adviser, allegedly over a battle of interests.
He became arch of Gazprom-Media in 2013, administering NTV if it advertisement a amount of documentary films targeting the opposition.
He accommodated in backward 2014, citation ancestors reasons, but admired Russian bi-weekly RBK appear that he had collapsed out with a Gazprom-Media actor and abutting Putin associate, Yuri Kovalchuk.
US concerns
In 2014, the US Department of Justice and the FBI launched an analysis into Lesin's acreage in the US, amidst suspicions of bribery and money laundering.
In a 2014 letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder, US Senator Roger Wicker aloft apropos about the California acreage Lesin had bought back affective his ancestors to the US.
"He acquired assorted residences at a amount of over $28 million," he wrote. "That a Russian accessible assistant could accept accumulated the ample funds appropriate to access and advance these assets... raises austere questions."
He aswell acicular to an credible banking hotlink amid Lesin and Mr Kovalchuk, who is beneath EU-US sanctions, as is Mr Kovalchuk's Bank Rossiya.
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