The NTV Public Council expresses its deepest respect to the staff of the television company, who throughout the year, despite frantic pressure, courageously continued to fulfill their duties to television viewers, maintaining independence and trying to show impartiality, which is hardly possible at all in such conditions. Many compare the takeover of the television company with the events of August 1991. Then Russian society fought against the putschists who were trying to seize power.

April 13, 10:56 The editor of the Primorsky newspaper "Arsenyevskie Vesti" Irina Grebneva began a dry five-day hunger strike in support of the NTV team. According to the Press Center.Ru agency, this newspaper published a statement by Irina Grebneva: “I don’t think that my strike will touch the authorities and force them to leave NTV alone.

April 13, 7:34 Boris Jordan's press secretary Oleg Sapozhnikov denies the information disseminated the day before by the NTV press service about the businessman's attempts to split the team, promising journalists apartments and double salaries if they leave the television company. Sapozhnikov called this message “false” and “provocative,” RIA Novosti reports. According to him, it was just the opposite.

April 13, 13:22 Gazprom-Media representative Boris Jordan believes that within “four to five days” the new management of the television company will be able to begin fulfilling their duties. He said that the day before he received the right to work in Moscow from the Federal Migration Service. “I also received the seal and full authority to manage the financial activities of the NTV company,” he added.

Stock reports as of April 13, 19:23 Index Change Dow Jones 0 0 NASDAQ 0 0 PTC 171.36 + 1.27% Russian stock market Today, April 13, activity in Russian markets was extremely low. The total trading volume was only $6.6 million, three times lower than usual. Most investors refrained from making deals, and the market reacted poorly to yesterday's stock rally in the US.

The NTV press service states that the television company's staff still does not consider Boris Jordan to be the legitimate general director of the company.

The Moscow Arbitration Court refused to satisfy the tax inspectorate No. 3 of the Central Administrative District (CAO) of the capital in satisfying the claim for the liquidation of NTV+ CJSC, reports Ekho Moskvy with reference to Interfax. The tax authority asked for the company to be liquidated on the grounds that in recent years the company's net assets have been "minus" and this could lead to tax arrears. Previously, the court refused to satisfy a similar claim by Tax Inspectorate No.

April 12, 18:39 Representatives of the journalistic team of the NTV television company filed a lawsuit in the Presnensky Interdistrict Court of the capital to declare the decision of the NTV Shareholders Council, held on April 3, illegal. The Council decided to replace the current management of the television company. Previously, the TV channel filed a similar lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court.

April 12, 16:26 Sergei Parkhomenko, editor-in-chief of the weekly Itogi, Alexey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the radio station Ekho Moskvy, general director of NTV-Plus Evgeniy Yakovich and general director of TNT-Teleset Pavel Korchagin were summoned to the prosecutor's office for questioning in the Gusinsky case, Lenta.Ru reported.

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.

April 12, 13:40 Gazprom-Media filed a complaint in court against the management of NTV, citing the fact that the TV channel's managers are preventing the implementation of the decision of the TV company's Board of Directors dated April 3 on the appointment of new managers, RIA Novosti reports. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom-Media, member of the board of Gazprom OJSC Alexander Kazakov has already expressed confidence that the complaint will be satisfied.

NTV executive director Sergei Skvortsov said today that criticism of the TV channel as a loss-making company has no basis. “After the 1998 crisis, the company was not profitable,” Sergei Skvortsov said today. “But now the advertising market is recovering and the television company’s profits are growing.” According to Skvortsov, the volume of advertising published on NTV accounts for 30% of the entire television advertising market.

April 11, 21:59 The French newspaper Le Monde published a story today under the headline "After the meeting between Putin and Schröder, the private Russian television channel NTV appears to be on the brink of death." As the newspaper notes, events on NTV were discussed during the meeting between the heads of Russia and Germany extremely unobtrusively - Chancellor Schröder did not even utter the word “NTV” itself.

April 11, 21:50 The head of the Moscow bureau of Time magazine, Paul Quinn-Judge, is confident that the clumsy putsch of the Kremlin attacking NTV puts the government in an obviously losing position. “This is a very good example that speaks to the desires and limited capabilities of President Vladimir Putin,” he said in an interview with American journalist Tony Caron. The president's main desire is to create a controlled society, says Paul Quinn-Judge.

Thursday, April 12, 2001. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation established the following official exchange rates: Currency Quantity Well Change US dollar 1 28.87 +0.08 Euro 1 25.68 -0.17 Italian lira 1000 13.26 -0.09 German mark 1 13.13 -0.09 French franc 10 39.14 -0.26 Pound sterling 1 41.43 -0.19 Japanese yen 100 23.27 +0.16 Thursday, April 12, 2001.