WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Wednesday June 14, 2000 3:19 PM Ted Turner - Russian Oligarch? Citing a senior official in President Vladimir Putin’s administration, Russia’s Political News Agency reported Wednesday that CNN founder Ted Turner will lead an international consortium in the external management of the media empire run by Vladimir Gusinsky - the oligarch arrested in Moscow on Tuesday. Russian bankruptcy law allows for a company to be placed under external management if it has three-month-old debts to its creditors in excess of 500 minimum wages - a sum roughly equal to $20,000. Gusinsky’s creditors include the government-controlled gas monopoly and the government-controlled state bank. Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office said Wednesday that Gusinsky was arrested on charges of embezzling the ruble equivalent of $10 million from the government. But advocates of press freedom in Russia and abroad are outraged by Gusinsky’s arrest and say it is part of an orchestrated attempt to silence open debate on the policies being pursued by the government. The jewel in Gusinsky’s empire is NTV - the only Russian television station with national pretensions that isn’t controlled by the Kremlin. NTV and other media sources controlled by Media-Most have been the most vocal critics of Putin and his war on Chechnya. The idea that Russia would allow an American to control one of its most powerful media companies may seem outlandish until you consider the following: * On May 11 Ted Turner became the first Western businessman to have an audience with President Putin - the very day dozens of armed tax police in masks stormed the headquarters of NTV. * Putin and Turner have known each other since 1994, when Putin, as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, oversaw preparations for the Goodwill Games, which was organized by Turner. * Rumors of financial improprieties by Putin’s team during the Goodwill Games - which Putin now calls "a great feat" - were legion. * Allowing a prominent American media mogul to have external control of Media-MOST’s news outlets would effectively silence press-freedom critics. After all, CNN is free to criticize the U.S. government, right? *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! ****************************************************************************** ******************* A vote for Bush or Gore is a vote to continue Clinton policies! A vote for Buchanan is a vote to continue America! Therefore a vote for Gore or Bush is a wasted vote for America! Don't waste your vote! Vote for Patrick Buchanan! Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey... Patrick Buchanan <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html <A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om