Vladimír Železný

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Vladimír Železný (born in Samara, Russia) is a media businessman and politician in the Czech Republic, the founder of TV NOVA.

In 2002 elected to the Czech Senate, in 2004 to the European Parliament. He was unsuccessfuly seeking re-election in the June 2006 Czech Parliament elections (Chamber of Deputies).

He is a founder of some political groups and parties. The latest called Independent Democrats (Nezávislí demokraté) founded in 2005.

[edit] Links

• Curriculum by Vladimír Vaďura (in Czech)
• http://nezdem.cz – Železný's latest (2005) political party (in Czech)
• European political group at the European Parliament http://indemgroup.org/

[edit] Media, articles, case studies

• Zelezny says he was offered higher preferences for bribe, praguemonitor.com/ČTK, 27.3.2006
• EP-Abgeordneter Vladimír Železný in Prag vor Gericht, tschechien-online.org, 31.1.2006 (German)
• Vladimír Zelezny: Der Medienboss, arte-tv.com, 6.10.2005 (German)
• Zynischer Populist ohne politische Überzeugung, taz.de, 14.6.2004 (German)
• Czech Mate: CME and Vladimir Zelezny, Harvard Bussines Online, Feb 10, 2004
• Mejstřík opět navrhl slyšení o TV Nova, senátoři jej znovu zamítli (Senator Martin Mejstřík tries again to initiate Senate hearing on TV Nova), cestazmeny.cz (Cesta změny), 23.5.2003 (Czech)
• Mejstřík inicioval veřejné slyšení ve věci arbitráže Novy (Senator Martin Mejstřík trying to hold public hearing to seek recovery of funds), cestazmeny.cz, 18.4.2003 (Czech)
• Senat hob strafrechtliche Immunität von Vladimir Zelezny auf, radio.cz, 24.1.2003 (German)
• Der Fernseh-Politiker, mdr.de, 8.12.2002 (German)