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НТВ
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 the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana 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 skat ... [...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] |
Pyotr Marchenko (journalist)
Pyotr Valentinovich Marchenko (; born December 23, 1969, Moscow) is a Russian television journalist, radio and television presenter. He is the presenter of the weekday summary program ' REN TV since 2015, previously the program ' on NTV (1996-2002) and the Sunday edition of the program ''Vremya'' on Channel One from 2003-2005. Biography Marchenko was born on December 23, 1969 in Moscow to Valentin Petrovich (1932-1993), a journalist, documentary film editor and to Olga Efimovna (1934-2016), a research fellow. He studied at the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature of the Krupskaya Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute, but left the university of his own free will. He also studied for some time at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. From March 23, 1992, he worked as a news editor at the radio station "Echo of Moscow", where he was hired by Sergei Fonton. From 1996 to 2002, he hosted the news program ) on the NTV channel. Initially, he hosted the morning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Universities
Russian Universities was a Russian educational television channel that existed from 1992 to 1996. It was initially Programme Four of Soviet Central Television, which, upon the dissolution of the USSR, was transferred to Channel 4 Ostankino (closed in 1994); while Russian Universities started broadcasting on a part-time basis on its frequencies from 1992 to 1996. It was shut down on 10 November 1996, enabling NTV to expand its broadcasting hours. Background and history The channel traced its history to the Programme Four which was established with the fiftieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917,''L. A. Dimitriev.: Баллада о Четвёртой программе ЦТ. — М.: Институт повышения квалификации работников телевидения и радиовещания, 2000. — page 48. focusing on literature, arts and culture. In the early 1970s, the project of an educational and cultural channel was abandoned. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Parfyonov
Leonid Gennadyevich Parfyonov (, born January 26, 1960) is a Russian journalist, news presenter, TV producer and author of many documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was Producer General between 1997 and 1999). From December 3, 2004, until December 20, 2007, he was an editor-in-chief of '' Russky Newsweek'', Russian edition of ''Newsweek''. From 2012 until 2018, Parfyonov was a member of Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. As the author and narrator of the daily culture news TV show on NTV, Parfyonov produced the line of popular history TV documentaries which he narrated and hosted on-site of almost each event portrayed. The series achieved great success and were repeatedly broadcast for years after premiere. Early life Leonid Parfyonov was born on January 26, 1960, in Cherepovets, Vologda region. His mother, Alvina Andreevna Parfyonova (maiden name Shmatinina, born 1931), came from the villa ... [...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] |
NTV Canada
NTV Canada (НТВ in Cyrillic) was a Canadian exempt Category B Russian language specialty channel. The channel was owned by HTB Canada Inc. It broadcast programming from NTV Russia and local Canadian content. NTV Canada produced weekly news program ''Today and Yesterday'' with Andrei Mazuruc and Stanislav Milashchenko, talk show ''Honest Talk'' with Luba Cherny, and arts and culture program ''Afisha'' (What's on) with Svetlana Dvoretskaya. The channel broadcast a variety of programming including seven live daily newscasts, talk shows, films, and popular TV series. History On August 6, 2004, HTB Canada Inc. was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called ''HTB Canada'', described as ''"a national, ethnic Category 2 Russian-language specialty television service. The applicant proposed to offer a programming service targeting the Russian-speaking community, although 10% of all programming woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unity Party Of Russia
Unity () was a Russian political party that was created on 3 October 1999, supported by Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and dozens of Russian governors to counter the threat which the Kremlin perceived from the Fatherland-All Russia alliance. It was also unofficially dubbed "Medved’" (the bear) or "Medvedi" (bears), as "MeDvEd" was an acronym of its full name (Mezhregionalnoye Dvizheniye "Edinstvo"; Interregional movement "Unity"). Later the party adopted a brown bear for its symbol. History The rise of Unity was meteoric given the short time period it had to create an identity, plan its campaign strategy and carry out its ambitious objectives. The establishment of the movement followed a declaration signed by 39 governors expressing their dissatisfaction with the political battles being fought in Russia. The initial meeting of these governors to form a new electoral movement was held on 24 September 1999. It was at this meeting that Minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He is the longest-serving Russian president since the independence of Russia from the Soviet Union. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of Lieutenant colonel (Eastern Europe), lieutenant colonel. He resigned in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. In 1996, he moved to Moscow to join the administration of President Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and then as Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, secretary of the Security Council of Russia before Putin's rise to power, being appointed prime minister in August 1999. Following Yeltsin's resignation, Putin became Actin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Chechen War
Names The Second Chechen War is also known as the Second Chechen Campaign () or the Second Russian Invasion of Chechnya from the Chechens, Chechen insurgents' point of view.Федеральный закон № 5-ФЗ от 12 января 1995 (в редакции от 27 ноября 2002) "О ветеранах" Historical basis of the conflict Russian Empire Chechnya is an area in the North Caucasus, Northern Caucasus which has constantly fought against foreign rule, including the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century. The Russian Terek Cossacks, Terek Cossack Host was established in lowland Chechnya in 1577 by free Cossacks who were resettled from the Volga to the Terek River. In 1783, the Russian Empire and the Georgia (country), Georgian Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, under which Kartli-Kakheti became a Russian protectorate. To secure communications with Georgia (country), Georgia and other regions of the Transcaucasia, the Russian Empire ... [...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] |
Radio Svoboda
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a media organization broadcasting news and analyses in 27 languages to 23 countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Headquartered in Prague since 1995, RFE/RL operates 21 local bureaus with over 500 core staff, 1,300 freelancers, and 680 employees. Nicola Careem serves as the editor-in-chief. Founded during the Cold War, RFE began in 1949 targeting Soviet satellite states, while RL, established in 1951, focused on the Soviet Union. Initially funded covertly by the CIA until 1972, the two merged in 1976. RFE/RL was headquartered in Munich from 1949 to 1995, with additional broadcasts from Portugal's Glória do Ribatejo until 1996. Soviet authorities jammed their signals, and communist regimes often infiltrated their operations. Today, RFE/RL is a private 501(c)(3) corporation supervised by the United States Agency for Global Media, which oversees all government-supported international broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
