Tina Kandelaki
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Tinatin Givievna Kandelaki November 10, 1975 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Residence | Moscow, Russia | ||
| Occupation | Russian journalist, presenter, producer | ||
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| Children | Melania Leonti |
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Tina Kandelaki (Russian: Тина Канделаки, Georgian: თინათინ კანდელაკი, born November 10, 1975) is a Georgian-born Russian journalist, public figure, TV presenter and producer. A co-owner of the Apostol company.
Tina was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tina’s father Givi Kandelaki (1942–2009) was an economist and the director of a vegetable depot in Tbilisi, moved to Moscow upon retirement. Givi Kandelaki is descended from the Kandelakis, a noble Georgian family of Caucasus Greek descent. Tina’s mother Elvira Kandelaki (maiden name Alakhverdova) is a narcologist of Armenian descent. Tina graduated from high school #64 in Tbilisi. In 1993 Tina was accepted into the Medical Department of Tbilisi State University. But soon after she left medicine and transferred to the Journalist Department. In 2008 she graduated from the Foreign Affairs Department of the Russian State University for the Humanities.
On November 26, 2006, Kandelaki was involved in a car accident in Nice, France. Kandelaki was a passenger of a Ferrari Enzo driven by Suleyman Kerimov, Russian billionaire and entrepreneur. The car went off road and crashed into a tree. The cause of the car accident is unknown. Kerimov was seriously injured and rushed to hospital.
Kandelaki worked for Radio 105, a radio station in Tbilisi, Georgia, until 1995, when she left for Moscow and started working on many TV and radio stations, such as M-radio, RDV, Silver Rain Radio, 2x2, Biz-TV, Muz-TV, Vremechko and TV-6. Since September 2002 Kandelaki has been hosting the talk show Details on the STS channel with Russian celebrity guests. In 2006 she received her first TEFI (the highest Russian TV award) for the “Best Talk Show TV Presenter” nomination. Since February 2003 Kandelaki has been hosting the TV show «The Smartest», the most popular version of “Britain's brainiest kid” quiz show. The show, as well as its host, received two more TEFIs — in 2004 and 2009. 2006 — Tina Kandelaki, together with Sergey Dorenko presented a weekly political program on Echo of Moscow (Russian radio station) 2008 —Kandelaki hosts Unreal Politics, a show that was aired on NTV. The show started as an experimental online project, in time Unreal Politics turned into one of the most popular talk shows on Russian TV with celebrity guests from politics, business and entertainment 2009 — Kandelaki hosts Two Stars, a TV show on Channel One 2009 — works as a producer of Infomania, a TV program on STS, a unique infotainment program for the thinking audience 2009 — dubbed Juarez, one of the guinea pigs of the G-force movie by Walt Disney Pictures 2010 — is a jury member of KVN Top-league (a TV game show) 2010 — is a TV-host for the show Perfect Man (STS Channel) 2010 - is a jury member of Bolshaya Raznitsa a parody show hosted in Odessa. (Russia One channel)
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