Yevgeny Alexejewitsch Kisselev
Evgeni Alexejewitsch Kisseljow ( Russian Евгений Алексеевич Киселёв , scientific transliteration Evgenij Alekseevič Kiselëv ; born June 15, 1956 in Moscow ) is a Russian journalist. In the 1990s he was one of the most famous critical Russian television journalists. Precisely because of the closure of several television channels he runs, he has not given up his critical stance towards Russian President Putin . After all critical channels in Russia had been closed, he worked as editor-in-chief of the liberal weekly newspaper Moskowskije Novosti before he “went to freer Kiev”. Today Yevgeny Kisselev is a television presenter in Ukraine .
Life
Yevgeny Kisseljow studied oriental studies at Moscow's Lomonosov University and then worked as a translator during the war in Afghanistan. In 1991 he was one of the co-founders of the first alternative news program Westi. In 1992 he started Itogi (balance sheet) - a discussion program on current political issues, with which he switched from state television to the private broadcaster NTW in 1993 . After having held a number of important positions at this station since 1993, he became General Manager in February 2000.
When the critical reporting ceased with the takeover of NTW by the Gazprom company in April 2001, Kisselev and his core journalists switched to Boris Berezovsky's private broadcaster TW-6 . He turned down an offer to continue the Itogi show at NTW. In January 2002 TW-6 was also closed and the group around Kisseljow founded the transmitter TWS . The Itogi that "favorite show of all thinking people in Russia" took Kiselyov with every time.
When TW-6's parent company reclaimed the equipment that Kisselev's people had taken over for their new station, this last independent Russian station was shut down for financial reasons. Kisselev declared his career as a television journalist over.
In September 2003, Putin-critical oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky took over the liberal weekly newspaper Moskowskije Novosti and hired Kisselev as editor-in-chief as part of its restructuring. Kisselev held this position until 2005.
Kisseljow switched to the Kremlin-critical radio station Echo Moskwy , for which he various programs, u. a. "Rasbor Polyotow" and the program "Vlast", which was also broadcast on RTVi , moderated.
After the state's influence on the Russian media increased, Yevgeny Kisselev moved to the Ukraine, where he is now one of the most popular television presenters alongside Sawik Schuster .
Awards
Kisseljow has received several awards for his dedicated journalism. In 1993 he was named the best journalist of the year. In 1995 he received the " International Free Press Award " in the USA . He received a prize from the Russian Television Academy for the program Itogi and for his talk show Glas naroda (The Voice of the People), moderated by the equally successful journalist Svetlana Sorokina , who has often worked with Kisselev and is now on Moscow Radio Echo Moskvy is working.
Web links
- Yevgeny Alexejewitsch Kisseljow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Page of the broadcast Wlast on RTVi (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Esch: "A slap in the face during the commercial break" , Berliner Zeitung , December 29, 2009.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kisselev, Evgeny Alexejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Киселёв, Евгений Алексеевич (Russian); Kiselëv, Evgenij Alekseevič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian TV presenter in Ukraine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |