When and for what killed Listyeva?

Leaves from a simple journalist quickly turned into a real star of domestic TV. Despite great fame, Vladislav in his life was modest enough.

Possible versions and hypotheses

According to the memoirs of his friend Albina, for a long time the couple was huddled in her workshop, so the financial motives for the murder are not talking. Why did they kill Listyev in this case? Among modern versions, personal motives and the theory of unscrupulousness of business partners are very popular.

"Vladislav Listiev was killed!" Photos and reports from the scene in the newspapers aroused resonance in the post-Soviet society - the goal of criminals was not a private entrepreneur or deputy, but a journalist. It was then that the versions about the political subtext in the complicated business sprang up. Possible leaders and executors of contract killings were searched at the top of power structures and in the tusovka of influential businessmen.

Stuffing events

The difficult situation in Ostankino in 1993 led to the need for change.

The constant shortage of state capital greatly impeded the development of the channel. In 1994, out of the required 1.3 trillion, the company was able to solicit 320 billion.
To solve the problem, the editors were given the opportunity to earn money on their own, but this did not bring relief at all: even the hard-working journalists of that time did not know how to work in the advertising sphere, including Vladislav Listyev. Who killed him, how and why, is not known to this day, but many colleagues associate the event with the big money that was circulating in Ostankino.

Drama in Ostankino

Special promotional materials of custom nature have spread on TV - for such stories commercial organizations and some political parties willingly paid a lot.

Usually, such an "advertising etude" cost the client several thousand dollars, within 5-20. The poor quality of programs became the subject of a headache for journalists and caused constant discontent of the channel's management.

Who benefits?

Data on the initiator of the offer to share Ostankino are somewhat contradictory.

According to the main version, for this in the answer the founder of the center of producer activity of REN TV Lesnevskaya Irena; The second version names the name of Alexander Lyubimov.

Lyubimov's plan gave excellent preconditions for the formation of a nationwide TV, which was presented to Lyubimov by the joint-stock community. Actually, this theory existed because of an interview with Boris Berezovsky, given in the summer of 1994. In a television interview with the newspaper Vlast in April 2005, he said that the news agency was conceived as "a powerful mechanism of socio-political struggle", an "independent television channel for the whole country" . For what killed Listyev, for money or for politics, after a frank interview with the tycoon, it was impossible to understand more.

Role of Berezovsky

This mechanism, according to Berezovsky's speeches, was needed for the purpose of a future war with the Communists, who after the failure in the Duma in 1993 would necessarily want retribution and revenge on the media space. In November 1994, Yeltsin signed the Order on the formation of the "Public Domestic Television." In the ranks of the company's shareholders were Logovaz and United Bank, Berezovsky, MENATEP Correspondent Bank of Khodorkovsky, Stolichny Correspondent Bank of Smolensk, Alfabank of Friedman and Aven, Microdin Efanov. Notes "Vladislav Listyev killed!", A close-up photo and the version of the investigation have since then and forever acquired the unpleasant aftertaste of big politics and big money.

Plans Listyeva

51% of the shares of the new Ostankino were from the state, and 49% - were in the assets of personal funds. Vlad Listyev since September 1994 was appointed vice-president of the Academy of domestic TV. Colleagues and friends of the journalist mentioned that he literally dreamed about another TV. He was curious to imagine a different path of development of the offspring, and not to observe the complete degradation of the ethers.

Although his range of interests extended only to the production and production of new projects, the question "What did Listyeva kill for?" Exists for a standard answer - for money, very big money.

Undoubtedly, it was interesting for him to work as a film producer, but this attitude towards the post imposed responsibility for the affairs of the channel on other employees. Vlad did not go into debit loans and similar accounting trivia, his talent was different.

Memories of colleagues

The journalist Razbash recalled: "A few days after the terrible event with Listiev, our telephone number was called. After a short pause, a cold, absolutely emotionless voice said something in the spirit: "If you start to twitch, you'll follow him ...". Most colleagues were called with requests not to cover the incident in the press and not to inflate a public scandal. For which Vlad Listyev was killed - we do not know and did not know, but they began digging in all possible directions after a series of calls from unknown numbers. "
During the investigation, about 2 thousand eyewitnesses, witnesses and possible participants in the events were questioned. In the commission of the offense, 10 different people confessed, but these versions were not subsequently confirmed. To the question "Why did they kill Listyev?" Most of them did not even have a clear answer, and motives and opportunities - and even more so.

FSB version

Many hypotheses were expressed that the real customer was Boris Berezovsky and his henchmen, then the "Solntsevsky trail" was formed, which led to the same criminal grouping.

A well-known fact is information about the systematic kick-out of the Global Media Systems company from the media space, whose interests were protected by the "Solntsevsky" Kartsev person. The "family" hypothesis was also worked out.

Lieutenant-Colonel FSB Litvinenko in his book indirectly accused Korzhakov of planning and directing the murder of a journalist.

On April 21, 2009, according to the current procedure of the investigation, the process was temporarily suspended "due to the impossibility of identifying the person responsible for the crime." However, soon the search was resumed, as there appeared data on the participation in the case of a member of the Tambov group Yuri Kolchin, who was serving a sentence for the murder of Galina Starovoitova.

The harbinger of the new TV era was he - Vladislav N. Listiev. Who killed the journalist and why he left the body will remain a secret for the next few decades. In contrast to the already existing hypotheses, the aforementioned Kolchin threw a completely new and somewhat unexpected version, and also led the investigation to large criminal authorities. However, according to the criminal, the customer of the murder was Berezovsky. After the case was made, the oligarch paid the Tambovites for silence for a long time.
Yuri Skuratov, who served as the Prosecutor General during the scandalous case, wrote a book detailing the people, versions and motives of the crime.

The novel "Who Killed Vlad?" Did not answer these questions. Who killed Listyev, and remained unknown. Although the main chapters and repeated investigative materials, individual characters of the work were named by other names. The narrative lines were also slightly different from the actual ones. Despite the skepticism of the general public and the cries about the paid articles, Skuratov mentioned that among the real killers of Listiev there are no people named Kolchin. Why they killed Listyev and how authorities are connected with this - a mystery.

Interview with the investigator

After the publication of the novel around the events in the book and in reality the polemic unfolded, supporters and opponents of the author argued different versions and called more and more new names.

Who killed Listyev - a question without a clear answer and today, as people interested in the death of a journalist are quite alive and well. Some details of the case helped to clarify the numerous interviews given by Peter Triboi, the investigator:

"Why did they kill Listyev?" Who did it?

- The situation is transparent.

- Where are the charges and the court for the criminals? Did someone dare interfere with the investigation?

"Not really." There were threats when in the process I found interesting facts; Nobody repaired open interference. Justice is a matter of having evidence. If the lawyers challenge the prosecutor's version, the main defendants will scatter, and we will never see them. Since all of them are wealthy people, it is not worthwhile to expect a fair trial in other states.

- Why did they kill Vladislav Listyev? Is the political elite involved in this?

- Some still have power, some - long ago displaced. There are many motives, it is impossible to reveal one particular thing, because journalistic activities forced Listyev to take part in various spheres of political, financial and public life of the state.

To the question: "In what year were Listyeva murdered?" The current young generation is not able to answer, and for its contemporaries the journalist was a real harbinger of a new TV, the main propagandist and pioneer of high broadcasting standards.

After the death of his ideologist, ORT became an ordinary politically engaged channel, which participated in various PR campaigns of various personalities. The political activity of the media giant has been criticized many times since, but the project did not have any new inspirations.