Statement from the NTV press service

The NTV press service warns: the illegally appointed “leaders” of the television company, led by Koch, Jordan and Kulistikov, have developed vigorous activity in recent days, agitating some NTV journalists to come over to their side.

The last time Boris Jordan conducted such a “suggestion session” was on April 11 at the Moscow Penta Hotel, where several NTV reporters and editors were, in fact, deceptively lured to a meeting with him.

They were promised to be given salaries twice as high as the current ones, to buy apartments, and to provide other benefits if they agreed to demonstratively leave NTV. Otherwise, they were afraid of losing their jobs and being expelled from the profession.

At the same time, it was argued that a special fund had been created from which those who left would be paid salaries - until Evgeny Kiselev and the main team of journalists were squeezed out of NTV.

All this work is carried out using typical methods of the special services - secret meetings, banal bribery, intimidation, blackmail, leaking "compromising material" on the current leaders of NTV and leading journalists.

The goals are quite clear: to split the team, to prevent the sale of a stake in NTV to Ted Turner, to prepare the ground for the arrival of illegally appointed management at NTV.

The “effective management” of the American Boris Jordan turned into an operation in the worst spirit of the intelligence services.