Russian Hackers: Putin Foe Khodorkovsky To Spend $5Mil on New Media Product
- The group calling itself “5th Power” claims they’ve got proof and have put it on their website. (Russian only)
- We can’t speak to the veracity of all this. We just found it on Lifenews.ru this morning, translated it, and put it up.
- We’re curious ourselves.
Khodorkovsky. Is it true?
This article originally appeared this past Monday in Russian at the popular Russian news site, Lifenews.ru It was translated for RI by Aleksei Shestyan.
The businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky is planning to organize and launch his own media entertainment channel and a news website, spending over $5,289,000 on the projects’ launch. Correspondence between the businessman and journalist Olga Pispanen, who is also Khodorkovsky’s official PR representative, was published on the website ‘Anonymous Group -Fifth Power’, a hacking organisation.
According
to the (leaked) documents, the businessman plans to name the television
channel ‘V’, which portrays a sign for ‘victory’ made by the two
fingers of a hand.
In
preparing for the launch, technical support and pilot production of
content should take about six months, and the promotion and promotional
media should take about 30 months, or 2.5 years.
According
to the data obtained by hackers, in launching his own media,
Khodorkovsky plans to spend over five million dollars, while for just
the service information there has already been developed a six-month
budget of almost $ 4 million dollars.
Also,
according to the documents, salaries to future employees of the TV
channel will be paid in dollars. For example, the pay of the chief
editor will depend on the specialization, and varies according to the
documents from around 3000 to 4500 dollars a month. Executives of the
new media outlet will receive 10 thousand dollars monthly. As for the
financing of all of the media, it would be through a non-profit
organization, the head office of which office would be in Prague, with
other outlets across Europe and in Moscow.
It can be noted, however, that there is no certainty as to whether Khodorkovsky will proceed with the outlets’ creation, and it is unclear the extent to which the plan has been developed.
This
is not the first time the hacking group – ‘Anonymous group’ - has laid
out the details of a correspondence between the businessman and PR
representative. Previously LifeNews reported that
the hackers published evidence of financial ties
between Khodorkovsky and (Lyudmila) Ulitskaya. This was from a
correspondence between Olga Pispanen and an addressee calling
themselves Lyudmila U. and it was revealed that in February 2014 the
writer (Lyudmila Ulitskaya) planned to meet the ex-head
of Yukos (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) in Berlin or Zurich. In the end, the
meeting was confirmed, and Ulitskaya notified that she had arrived in
Switzerland. A few days after meeting
with Khodorkovsky, Ulitskaya sent Pispanen details for a money transfer.
Also
from the correspondence it also became known that at the time, Mikhail
Khodorkovsky promised the leadership of (television channel) «Дождя»
(or “Rain”) financial assistance in the amount of one hundred thousand
dollars, when the channel began to be excluded from satellite packages of television operators after the scandalous poll on the topic of ‘The Siege of Leningrad.’
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