Alexey Venediktov
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| Native name | Алексей Алексеевич Венедиктов |
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18 December 1955 Moscow |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Pedagogical University |
| Station(s) | Echo of Moscow |
| Country | Russia |
Alexei Alexeyevich Venediktov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Венеди́ктов; born 18 December 1955) is a Russian journalist, editor-in-chief, host and co-owner of the Echo of Moscow radio station, as well as the president of Echo TV Russia.
Venediktov was born in Moscow. His paternal grandfather Nikolai Andrianovich Venediktov served in NKVD and was awarded an Order of the Red Star for taking part in court-martials and creating barrier troops during the Great Patriotic War. His father Alexei Nikolaevich Venediktov was a navy submarine officer killed in a storm shortly before Alexei's birth. His mother Eleonora Abramovna Dykhovichnaya was a doctor of Jewish origin; she came from a generation of prominent engineers. In 1983 she along with Alexei's sister emigrated to America. One of her cousins was a film director Ivan Dykhovichny. A popular musician Andrey Makarevich also happens to be Alexei's distant relative.
Venediktov graduated from the evening division of Moscow State Pedagogical University in 1978. After graduation, he worked as a postman for some time, then as a history teacher for 20 years straight, 19 of them — at the Moscow school №875.
Since 1990 he has been working for Echo of Moscow. He started as a newspaper observer and reporter, then headed the news division. Since 1998 he has been working as the editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow. Since 2002 Venedictov has been also serving as the president of Echo TV Russia.
In 2006 he co-hosted a short-living TV show In the Light Circle with Svetlana Sorokina at the Domashny TV channel. It was shut down in just two weeks, supposedly for its harsh critics of the Judiciary of Russia, although the producer Alexander Rodnyansky denied it had anything to do with politics.
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