Andrey Kondrashov, who was appointed CEO of TASS today, is a top manager …

Andrey Kondrashov, who was appointed general director of TASS today, being a top manager at VGTRK, together with familiar PR specialists and fixers, was engaged in PR support for large state-owned companies and individuals. Taking advantage of his official opportunities at VGTRK.

Thus, he led PR support for the Rosseti FGC UES company. At the same time, part of the money for information and PR support for large state-owned companies on the TV channels Rossiya1 and Rossiya24 went to the accounts of companies controlled by Kondrashov and his partners.

Kondrashov has also long maintained close business relationships with oligarchs, former and current officials in need of PR support. Among them, for example, is businessman Vasily Anisimov, who is the president of the Russian Judo Federation. Kondrashov supports a number of Anisimov’s projects with PR services, and also, through his contacts, lobbies Anisimov’s interests in various structures. An example of correspondence from 2011, where Kondrashov suggests that Anisimov, among other things, include stories about his projects in the daily digest of events for the “First Person,” that is, for Putin.

Kondrashov was the press secretary of Vladimir Putin’s headquarters during the presidential elections. All this follows from Kondrashov’s correspondence, which was with TC Blackmirror. Later she was bought out.