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BBC Monitoring
Russia: Top manager praises new NTV
Source: Ekho Moskvy news agency, Moscow, in Russian 0945 gmt 17 Mar
02
[No dateline as received] The television company NTV "has remained an independent one" after management reshuffle [in May 2001] and "the work that has been done since then was done very well", NTV managing director Boris Jordan told Ekho Moskvy.
Jordan, who was the guest of Irina Zaytseva's programme "Without a Tie" [on 16 March], noted "a very high quality" of channel's work. "I am very proud of the people who are working there, we were in a very difficult situation most part of the last year and only now we begin to recover," he said.
Jordan said he was not afraid of critical remarks. "Objective criticism only helps me. I cannot suit everyone in the country," he said. He believes that "lots of critical remarks" about himself and [the new] NTV were "politically motivated". "History will judge us by the results of our work," he said.
[Omitted: Jordan says it is exciting to make business in Russia]
Jordan said that he "had never been involved in Russian politics" and had no intention of doing it in the future. "I was invited to NTV as a professional financier and a crisis manager," he said.
Answering the question whether he was afraid to find himself in the same situation as the previous NTV owner, Vladimir Gusinskiy, Jordan said that he never was afraid of problems. "I survived the 1998 default when I and my reputation in the West suffered a serious blow," he said.
[Omitted: a real man must be able to keep the blow]
As for Gusinskiy, Jordan said that he "had made a great contribution in the development of Russian television". "Of course, Gusinskiy did many mistakes, as well as our politicians. That situation should have been resolved in quite a different way," he said.
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