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1st Channel Ostankino
1st channel Ostankino () was a national Russian television channel, on which the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Ostankino" broadcast. The editorial offices and studios of the television and radio company, from which it broadcast on it, were located in the Ostankino Technical Center. History 1991–1992: Foundation and start of broadcasting On December 27, 1991, in connection with the termination of the activities of state bodies of the USSR and the formation of the CIS, and also in order to ensure the functioning of interstate broadcasting within the CIS, the was liquidated, and on its basis, the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Ostankino" was formed, to which all television and radio broadcasting frequencies on which the television and radio company broadcast were transferred, as well as the production of all television and radio broadcasting programs of the former All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Central Tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostankino (TV And Radio Company)
Russian State TV and Radio Company «Ostankino» (Russian: Российская государственная телерадиокомпания «Останкино» — formerly All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company) is the state broadcasting organization that managed part of the state television and radio broadcasting in Russia from February 8, 1991, to October 12, 1995. History According to a Kommersant article dated 29 April 1995, "In the fall of 1992, a commercial directorate was created at Ostankino (ORT), which demanded that the studios enter into contracts with advertisers. The studio directors began to report not to the editor-in-chief of the TV company, but to the commercial one. At the same time, the concept of "currency advertising" ($5000 per minute) was introduced. This only increased the income to the television company's shadow fund, since the studio took money from currency advertisers as from ruble advertisers, but for this service it was ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the ''Star Wars'' and ''Indiana Jones'' franchises and founded Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to the Walt Disney Company in 2012. Nominated for four Academy Awards, he is considered to be one of the most significant figures of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement, and a pioneer of the modern blockbuster (entertainment), blockbuster. Despite this, he has remained an independent filmmaker away from Hollywood for most of his career. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas moved to San Francisco and co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. He wrote and directed ''THX 1138'' (1971), based on his student short ''Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB'', which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was ''Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianna Maksimovskaya
Marianna Aleksandrovna Maksimovskaya (; born 7 April 1970) is a Russian journalist and television presenter. She presented the programme "The Week" which was reported as the last independent TV news source in Russia when it was stopped in 2014. Life Maksimovskaya was born in Moscow in 1970. She studied journalism and graduated from the Moscow State University. In 1993 she began working for TV companies as a presenter or a correspondent. She worked at the Russian TV companies ORT, NTV, TVS and TV6. She was an anchor and news presenter for Vladimir Gusinsky's NTV Station. In 2003 she was a deputy editor at REN TV. In November 2005 REN TV fired Olga Romanova, the anchor of its daily ''24'' news flagship. Despite much publicity around the incident, her manner of reporting was continued by Maksimovskaya presenting "Week" for REN TV. In 2010 Maksimovskaya was presenting evidence that coal miners were not only blocking methane detectors on her programme "Week". They were being enc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr
Vladimir (, , pre-1918 orthography: ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings. The earliest record of a person with the name is Vladimir of Bulgaria (). Etymology The Old East Slavic form of the name is Володимѣръ ''Volodiměr'', while the Old Church Slavonic form is ''Vladiměr''. According to Max Vasmer, the name is composed of Slavic владь ''vladĭ'' "to rule" and ''*mēri'' "great", "famous" (related to Gothic element ''mērs'', ''-mir'', cf. Theode''mir'', Vala''mir''). The modern ( pre-1918) Russian forms Владимиръ and Владиміръ are based on the Church Slavonic one, with the replacement of мѣръ by миръ or міръ resulting from a folk etymological association with миръ "peace" or міръ "world". Max Vasmer, ''Etymological Dictionary of Russian Language'' s.v. "Владимир"starling.rinet.ru [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Osokin
Mikhail Glebovich Osokin (; born January 14, 1952, Kalinin, RSFSR) is a Russian journalist and TV presenter, columnist. He holds the Candidate of Historical Sciences degree. Biography He was born on January 14, 1952 in Kalinin (Tver) in European Russia. He was raised by his grandmother, Johanna Robertovna for the first few years. He studied at School No. 9 (now Gymnasium No. 3) in Volgograd; he lived with his stepfather and mother, who had arrived from Novosibirsk during the formation of the Volgograd television studio. He was expelled from the second year of the History Department of Moscow State University for active participation in a student strike with the wording "For an anti-communist attitude toward public life and work" and reinstated after military service. He served in the Soviet Air Forces, and was a squad commander. In 1975, he graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University, and then from graduate school at Moscow State University. He was a class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatyana Mitkova
Tatyana Rostislavovna Mitkova (; born 13 September 1955) is a Russian television journalist for NTV. She became famous in 1991 for refusing to read the official Soviet Union version of the military response to the uprising in Lithuania. In 2001, BBC News described her as one of Russia's "best-known news presenters". Biography She was born on September 13, 1955, into the family of a Soviet officer, participant in the Great Patriotic War, First Chief Directorate officer Rostislav Leonidovich Mitkov (1924-2020). She comes from the noble Mitkov family; according to family recollections, the journalist's grandfather changed the surname to "Mitkov" for fear of persecution of his family under the Soviet regime. Tatyana spent her childhood in Switzerland, where her mother worked at the USSR embassy. Увлекалась фигурным катанием и хореографией и хотела поступать в музыкальное училище. She was fond of figure skati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NTV (Russia)
NTV (Cyrillic: НТВ) is a Russian free-to-air television channel that was launched as a subsidiary of Vladimir Gusinsky's company . Since 14 April 2001 Gazprom Media controls the network. NTV has no official meaning according to Igor Malashenko, the author of the name and co-founder of the company, but in the 1990s unofficial transcripts of the acronym include "New" (''Novoje''), "Independent" (''Nezavisimoje''), "Non-governmental" (''Negosudarstvennoje''), "Our" (''Nashe''). History Gusinsky era (1993-2001) Gusinsky founded NTV broadcasting in October 1993 on channel 4. It moved to channel 5 in January 1994. He attracted talented journalists and news anchors of the time such as Tatiana Mitkova, Leonid Parfyonov, Mikhail Osokin, Yevgeniy Kiselyov, Vladimir A. Kara-Murza, Victor Shenderovich, Pyotr Marchenko and others. The channel set high professional standards in Russian television, broadcasting live coverage and sharp analysis of current events. Starting before th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Gusinsky
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky (, ; born 6 October 1952) is a Russian media tycoon. He founded the Media-Most holding company that included the NTV free-to-air channel, the newspaper ''Segodnya'', and a number of magazines. Early life and education Gusinsky was born into a Jewish family in Moscow on 6 October 1952. In 1969, Gusinsky enrolled in Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas, however, he did not finish his education there. He joined the USSR Army in 1973 as a Junior Sergeant in the Chemical Intelligence Troops. In 1975, after being demobilized, Gusinsky enrolled in the State Institute for the Study of Theatrical Arts (Russian: ГИТИС English: GITIS). He graduated in 1979 with his graduating diploma work on the staging of "Tartuffe" by Molière, in the Tula State Dramatic Theater. Early career 1986 * Stage Director for the Ted Turner Goodwill Games in the Kremlin Palace. * Founded one of the first cooperatives following Perestroika - Cooperative "Metal" - which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Dobrodeev
Oleg Borisovich Dobrodeev (born October 28, 1959, Moscow) is a Russian journalist and media manager, general director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK). Due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as a propagandist, he is included in the sanctions lists of all EU countries, Great Britain and a number of other countries. Personal life Oleg Borisovich Dobrodeev was born October 28, 1959, in Moscow. The Son of screenwriter Boris Tikhonovich Dobrodeev (1927–2022). A scriptwriter and Film Makers Union secretary, Oleg's father produced documentaries on Karl Marx and the family grew up in a community of writers North of Moscow. Dobrodeev Jr. also has an older brother, Dmitry Dobrodeev (born 1950), a writer, who lives in the Czech Republic. In 1981 Dobrodeev graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University (MGU) with a degree in Modern and Contemporary History of France. After graduation, he became a researcher at the Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Censorship In Russia
Censorship is controlled by the Government of Russia and by civil society in the Russian Federation, applying to the content and the diffusion of information, printed documents, music, works of art, cinema and photography, radio and television, web sites and portals, and in some cases private correspondence, with the aim of limiting or preventing the dissemination of ideas and information that the Russian state or public opinion consider to be a danger. Russian Federation legislation on the mass media defines censorship as a "requirement, vis-à-vis media editors, officials, state bodies, organizations, institutions or public associations, to coordinate, prior to their distribution, the messages and documents to be broadcast as well as the obligation to prohibit, where appropriate, their broadcast in whole or in part ". The constitution of the Russian Federation prohibits censorship in paragraph 5 of Article 29. However, there are in fact many cases of censorship of works and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a Independent politician, political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with Liberalism in Russia, liberalism. Yeltsin was born in Butka, Russia, Butka, Ural Oblast (1923–1934), Ural Oblast. He would grow up in Kazan and Berezniki. He worked in construction after studying at the Ural State Technical University. After joining the Communist Party, he rose through its ranks, and in 1976, he became First Secretary of the party's Sverdlovsk Oblast committee. Yeltsin was initially a supporter of the ''perestroika'' reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He later criticized the reforms as being too moderate and called for a transition to a Multi-party system, multi-party repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Slabynko
Oleg Slabynko (1962 – 1996), a Russian, was working for Russian Television Channel 2 as a TV producer for the show ''Moment Istiny'' (''Moment of Truth'') in Moscow, Russia. Slabynko was murdered in his home by two unidentified assailants on a contract killing. Slabynko was one of over 562 contract murders that happened over the course of three years. Personal Oleg Slabynko was born in 1962 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Slabynko was interested in journalism all of his life and by the age of 24 was already in a position of importance in his chosen profession. He was divorced and lived together with his parents and elder daughter in an apartment in Moscow. Career By the time he was 33, Slabynko became the producer of multiple TV programs on Russian Television Channel 2, including ''Forgotten Names'' and the ''Moment Istiny'' (''Moment of Truth''). Slabynko came to work for Channel 2 at the time Boris Yeltsin was in political control of the Channel and wanted it used for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
