03 June 2004 13:09
Chairman of board backs manager`s right to sack top Russian TV journalist
The chairman of the board of Russian television channel NTV has backed the management's right to sack the
journalist Leonid Parfenov, Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported on 3 June.
The agency quoted board chairman Aleksandr Dybal's comments on the statement to the board by director-general
Nikolay Senkevich that Parfenov had been sacked for "violating his employment contract, as well as corporate
ethical standards".
"The director-general of the company has the right to independently resolve ongoing issues related to the
management of the company. Nikolay Senkevich informed us [the board] of his decision and we have taken note of it,"
the agency quoted Dybal as saying.
TASS noted that the board of NTV, the largest non-state TV company in Russia, has the following members: the
director-general of Gazprom-Media, Aleksandr Dybal; the first deputy director-general of Gazprom-Media, Dmitriy
Biryukov; the director-general of NTV, Nikolay Senkevich; the president of the joint-stock commercial bank Evrofinance,
Vladimir Stolyarenko; and the first vice-president of joint-stock commercial bank Evrofinance, Aleksandr Bondarenko.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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