The Anti-Corruption Fighting Fund of Alexey Navalny said that the friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin belongs to the entire media empire of the country.

This is stated on the YouTube channel of the Russian oppositionist.

In particular, we are talking about the chairman of the board of directors of the bank "Russia" Iurie Kovalchuk.

According to the Foundation, in 2006 Kovalchuk bought the company "Leader", which manages the pension savings of Gazprom employees with the help of "Gazfond". At the same time, Gazfond holds a controlling stake in Gazprombank, and the latter - the largest Russian media holding Gazprom-Media,.

Having these assets, Kovalchuk influences NTV, NTV Plus, TNT, TV3, Friday, the cable network Tricolor TV,.

In addition, he is controlled by the radio stations Echo Moskvy, Detskoye Radio, Comedy Radio, City FM, Relax FM, AvtoRadio, Energy, Romantika, Humor FM, as well as the publishing house Seven Days, And other media.

As reported by the "Observer", on the eve of Putin's followers, Kiva's words in support of Navalny.

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