Alexei Alexeyevich Venediktov is a Russian journalist, former editor-in-chief, host and co-owner of the Echo of Moscow radio station, as well as publisher of Diletant history magazine.
18 Facts About Alexei Venediktov
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Alexei Venediktov was born in Moscow, USSR on 18 December 1955.
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Alexei Venediktov's father, Alexei Nikolaevich Venediktov, was a navy submarine officer killed in a storm shortly before Alexei's birth.
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In 1983 she along with Alexei Venediktov's sister emigrated to the United States.
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Alexei Venediktov graduated from the evening division of Moscow State Pedagogical University in 1978.
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Alexei Venediktov began as a newspaper observer and reporter and later headed the news division.
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Alexei Venediktov was editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow from 1998 to 2022.
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From 2002 until 2010, Alexei Venediktov served as president of Echo TV Russia.
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On December 6,1994, Alexei Venediktov traveled to Grozny as a correspondent for Echo to cover talks between Dzhokhar Dudayev and Russian parliamentarians who came to rescue Russian officers captured during an unsuccessful tank assault on Grozny.
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Alexei Venediktov took out a tape recorder and told the officers to say on record that they won't go anywhere, so that their families could know.
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Ten minutes of clicking the bolts, and Alexei Venediktov was brought back.
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In February 2012, Alexei Venediktov resigned from Echo's board of directors in protest against the Gazprom-Media attempt to announcement to change the board.
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Alexei Venediktov later said that it was Vladimir Putin who personally saved him and his station from closure by Mikhail Lesin.
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Alexei Venediktov returned to the board in 2014, only to leave it again in June 2018.
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In 2012, Alexei Venediktov founded the first popular history magazine in Russia, Diletant.
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Alexei Venediktov described his political views as conservative and himself as a reactionary, with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher representing his ideals in politics.
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Alexei Venediktov is a member of the Public Board of the Russian Ministry of Defence and the Civic Chamber of Moscow since 2016.
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Alexei Venediktov said that the he had announced the collaboration openly and did not earn anything from the project.