Evgeny Kiselev: biography of TV host

Yevgeny Kiselev is a well-known Russian and Ukrainian journalist, political analyst, creator of commercial independent NTV television company. In addition, he has many awards and prizes on his account. The most significant of them are: 1996, 2000 - TEFI, 1995 - For Freedom of the Press, 1999 - Telegram.

Yevgeny Kiselyov. Biography

A well-known journalist was born in Moscow, June 15, 1956, in a family of engineers. He studied at the Institute of African and Asian countries at Moscow State University and successfully mastered the specialty "Oriental historian". His classmates were the famous writer Boris Akunin (Chkhartishvili Gregory) and brother Alexei.

In 1977-78, Kiselev was on probation in Tehran. There he worked as an interpreter and was pleased with his work. The outbreak of the Islamic revolution forced the young man to return to his homeland. All that happened left an indelible impression. According to the journalist himself, if it were not for the war, he would have been engaged in Iran today. After graduating from the institute, Yevgeny Kiselev goes to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. There he served as an officer-interpreter from 1979 to 1981. He was an eyewitness of the entry of Soviet troops into the territory of Afghanistan. Service ended in the rank of captain. Returning home, I went to work as a teacher of Persian language at the prestigious Red Banner Institute of the Higher School of the KGB.

TV

Today Kiselev Evgeni Alekseevich is better known as an outstanding journalist and politician. In 1984, he began working at the State Television and Radio, and in 1987 he left for the international department of the TV program "Time". In the "International Program", the programs "Before and After Midnight", "Vglyad" began to appear his special reports. He became the first journalist to show Israel on a completely new, unknown side. Kiselev became the leading program "Morning", "90 minutes" in 1990. In addition, he was one of the first who became the leading popular program "Vesti."

Own projects

Together with Oleg Drobyshev in 1992, Kiselev created an analytical program "Itogi". It was the first program in the style of a political show. In 1993, together with Alexei Tsyvarev and Igor Malashenko, he created a commercial independent television company NTV. As the co-founder is the "Group Bridge" under the management of Vladimir Gusinsky. NTV Broadcasting Company is quickly gaining a worthy place and is becoming one of the most popular on Russian television. In 1997, journalist Yevgeny Kiselev was appointed to the post of chairman of the board of directors of OAO NTV Broadcasting Company. After the departure in 2000 of Dobrodeev, who was the CEO, Kiselev took his place.

Care with NTV

In 2001, Kiselev had to leave his post and part with his favorite channel. Everything happened because of the reorganization of the TV channel. Together with him, a large number of journalists and workers quit. At the same time, the general director of TV-6 channel appointed Kiselev the general director of MNVK "TV-6 Moscow". Together with him, journalists from NTV came to work here. In September of the same year, the City Arbitration Court ruled to liquidate the television company in accordance with the suit of one of the shareholders. "Kiselev's team" led by the journalist himself in March 2002 created ZAO "The Sixth Channel". The channel started working on June 1, 2002. He was given the name of TVS. But in June 2003 the channel was disconnected from the air on the orders of the Ministry of Press.

"Moscow News"

Yevgeny Kiselyov, whose biography is so entertaining, did not stay idle. Within three months he took the place of the editor-in-chief of the popular newspaper Moskovskie Novosti. Soon a conflict arose between him and the journalists of the newspaper. The reason was the disagreement of the team with its editorial policy. A letter was sent to the Director General. It contained all the claims, as well as a proposal for resignation. However, Kiselev could not be dismissed. Moreover, soon he became the general director of the publishing house "Moscow News", and all the dissenters resolutely sacked. In 2005, all shares of the company "Moscow News" was bought by Vadim Rabinovich. By this time, Yevgeny Kiselev had already lost his post. These events did not break the active and purposeful person. He started working on the radio "Echo of Moscow". In addition, he often interviewed as a political analyst. In early 2004, Kiselev began violent activities directed against President Putin. He organized the "Committee 2008" group. In June 2008, the journalist headed the Ukrainian TV channel TVI. In the same year he became the host of the program "Big Politics with Evgeni Kiselev." In October 2009, quite unexpectedly for all, he leaves his post and closes the program.

Achievements

In 1998, Yevgeny Kiselyov, according to Kommersant, became one of the richest and most famous people in Russia. In 2009 he published the book "Without Putin". His co-author was Mikhail Kasyanov, former Prime Minister. The journalist is known not only as a leader, but also as the author of documentary films: "Afghan Trap", "Teheran-99", "Mysterious Secretary General", "The Mystery of K-129 Death", "The President of All Russia", "Spartacus" Human person "," Knight of the oval office "," Pope "," Taganka with the Master and without ".

About his personal life Kiselev reluctantly tells. According to him, his free time is rare. He likes to spend it, watching television, reading memoir literature or strolling to your favorite places. The journalist adores delicious food. He always tries to try something new and unusual. In addition, Kiselev likes to play tennis. However, time for this is often not enough. He is married and has an adult son of Alexei. His wife, Maria Shakhova, was his classmate and first love. She, too, is not the last figure in Moscow. Shakhova is the producer of the TV show "Fazenda" on the First Channel. In the recent past, she served as NTV's press secretary and led the popular "Summerers" program. For her services she won the "TEFI-2002" award. Several times exhibited as a designer in the Small Manezh. Their son and his wife are engaged in business. They created their own clothing line and their brand pret-a-porter. Kiselev has his beloved grandson George.