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Police arrive at NTV office

POLICE ARRIVE AT NTV OFFICE
Moscow -Three police officers have arrived at the NTV office in the Ostankino television center. They announced they will be waiting for former leadership of NTV to come out.

SELEZNYOV CRITICIZES NEW NTV HEADS
Moscow - Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznyov commented on yesterday's elections of new leadership of Russia's independent television station, NTV and noted he did not expect such a bad decision. Seleznyov called Alfred Kokh, the new head of the NTV board of directors, and Boris Jordan, the NTV general director, "roguish" and said they will not be able to settle either the conflict around NTV or its financial problems.

YABLOKO TO URGE DUMA TO SUPPORT NTV
Moscow - Leader of the Yabloko faction Grigory Yavlinsky intends to take the floor at a plenary session of the Russian State Duma and propose deputies to support the NTV television company today, press secretary of the faction Yevgeniya Dillendorf reported. In particular, Yavlinsky urges parliamentarians to come to the Ostankino television center and support Yabloko deputies who had spent last night in the NTV office. In addition, the faction intends to suggest that the State Duma applies to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and requests it to immediately evaluate the latest decisions of the new Board of Directors of NTV.

DUMA NOT TO CONSIDER NTV SITUATION TODAY
Moscow - The State Duma did not include thediscussion of an announcement about the situation with NTV television on its agenda for today's meeting. The Communist, Yedinstvo and LDPR factions together with the Agrarian-industrial and Narodny Deputat (People's Deputy) groups were against it. They noted parliament should not interfere in conflicts between shareholders of a private company. At the same time, representatives of Yabloko, Union of Right Forces and Fatherland-All Russia factions supported the idea to pass a resolution about the situation around NTV. All in all, 108 deputies supported the proposal and 193 were against it with 2 abstentions.

PROFILE of BORIS JORDAN
Boris Jordan, 33, is a U.S. millionaire whose parents moved to the States from Russia.

*Once denied a Russian visa after the disputed 1997 sale of the Svyazinvest phone company.

*Established career as investment banker, working for Credit-Suisse First Boston heading up its Moscow office until 1995.

*Left CSFB to found Renaissance Capital, becoming one of Russia's leading investors.

*A key figure in setting up Russia's fledgling stock market in the early 1990s and played a role in privatisation deals of stateassets.

*His financial group Sputnik owns the Moscow radio station, Europa-Plus.

*Developed interest in media and telecommunications businesses through his investment and development company Sputnik Technology Ventures after other investments took a tumble in the Russian stock market crash of 1998.

*Appointed director general of network at NTV in April, 2001.

*His brother Nicholas, a banker, was involved in Gazprom's efforts to gain control of part of NTV's shares.

(Sources: RBC, AP, RJ, Reuters)

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