Yevgeniy Kiselyov
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| Born |
Yevgeny Alexeyevitch Kiselyov 15 June 1956 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Organization |
NTV (1990s-2001) TV-6 (2001-02) |
| Awards | International Press Freedom Award (1995) |
Yevgeny Alexeyevich Kiselyov (Russian: Евгений Алексеевич Киселёв; born 15 June 1956) is a Russian television journalist. As the host of the NTV weekly news show Itogi in the 1990s, he became one of the nation's best known television journalists, criticizing government corruption and President Boris Yeltsin. In 2001, he left NTV following its takeover by the state-controlled company Gazprom, serving briefly as general manager of TV-6 before the government refused to renew its broadcasting license in January 2002. He later moved to Ukraine, where he was a presenter for the show Big Politics (till 2013) and currently is in charge of the news production at Inter TV.
Kiselyov is the son of an aviation engineer. A student in Persian at Moscow State University, he later worked as an interpreter in Iran and Afghanistan during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. He began his broadcast career with the Persian service of Radio Moscow in 1984, moving to television three years later. He became famous in 1991 when he refused to report official Soviet news as the USSR was losing control of the Baltic states.
Kiselyov was a "pioneering" television journalist in Russia in the 1990s after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and in 1997, the New York Times described him as "Russia's most prominent television journalist".
During this period, he hosted the popular weekly news show Itogi ("Results") on the independent station NTV. The show was modeled on the long-running US news program 60 Minutes. Kiselyov described Itogi's politics as "anti-Communist, pro-reform and pro-democracy", and it specialized in investigating government corruption. However, critics stated that the show was "excessively politicized", and settled scores on behalf of the station's owner.
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