The businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky is planning to organize and launch his own media entertainment channel and a news website, spending over $5,289,000 on the projects’ launch. Correspondence between the businessman and journalist Olga Pispanen, who is also Khodorkovsky’s official PR representative, was published on the website ‘Anonymous Group -Fifth Power’, a hacking organisation.

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According to the (leaked) documents, the businessman plans to name the television channel ‘V’, which portrays a sign for ‘victory’ made by the two fingers of a hand.

In preparing for the launch, technical support and pilot production of content should take about six months, and the promotion and promotional media should take about 30 months, or 2.5 years.

According to the data obtained by hackers, in launching his own media, Khodorkovsky plans to spend over five million dollars, while for just the service information there has already been developed a six-month budget of almost $ 4 million dollars.

Also, according to the documents, salaries to future employees of the TV channel will be paid in dollars. For example, the pay of the chief editor will depend on the specialization, and varies according to the documents from around 3000 to 4500 dollars a month. Executives of the new media outlet will receive 10 thousand dollars monthly. As for the financing of all of the media, it would be through a non-profit organization, the head office of which office would be in Prague, with other outlets across Europe and in Moscow.

Information of the intention to create this media outlet became available to the online-hackers after they hacked into Olga Pispanen’s email account. In the tab “Inbox,” she had led a correspondence with a person who was using the pseudonym of ‘МВК’ (Mikhail Borisovic Khodorkovsky), which according to the hackers, Khodorkovsky used to stay anonymous.

It can be noted, however, that there is no certainty as to whether Khodorkovsky will proceed with the outlets’ creation, and it is unclear the extent to which the plan has been developed.

This is not the first time the hacking group – ‘Anonymous group’ - has laid out the details of a correspondence between the businessman and PR representative. Previously LifeNews reported that the hackers published evidence of financial ties between Khodorkovsky and (Lyudmila) Ulitskaya. This was from a correspondence between Olga Pispanen and an addressee calling themselves Lyudmila U. and it was revealed that in February 2014 the writer (Lyudmila Ulitskaya) planned to meet the ex-head of Yukos (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) in Berlin or Zurich. In the end, the meeting was confirmed, and Ulitskaya notified that she had arrived in Switzerland. A few days after meeting with Khodorkovsky, Ulitskaya sent Pispanen details for a money transfer.

Also from the correspondence it also became known that at the time, Mikhail Khodorkovsky promised the leadership of (television channel) «Дождя» (or “Rain”) financial assistance in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, when the channel began to be excluded from satellite packages of television operators after the scandalous poll on the topic of ‘The Siege of Leningrad.’