28 Facts About Mykola Kniazhytskyi

Mykola Leonidovych Kniazhytskyi is a Ukrainian journalist and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi is head of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, co-head of group for interparliamentary relations with the Republic of Poland, and head of EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi was a member of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi was born on 2 June 1968, into a family of educators.

In 1985, Mykola Kniazhytskyi entered the Faculty of Journalism at Kyiv University and obtained a diploma in 1992.

From February 1989 to January 1991, Mykola Kniazhytskyi was a special correspondent of the editorial board of the State TV and Radio Broadcasting of the USSR, hosted "Vechirni Novyny" TV program and was a correspondent of the Central Television in Ukraine.

From February 1991 to January 1992, Mykola Kniazhytskyi was Head of the correspondent office of joint Soviet-Canadian TV and Radio "Mist" enterprise.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi was a Ukrainian correspondent of the program "Viesti" of Russian State TV and Radio Company, which has been broadcast since 13 May 1991.

From February to June 1992, Mykola Kniazhytskyi was a special correspondent for political analysis and forecast of the State TV and Radio Broadcaster of Ukraine, and a co-host of Oleksandr Tkachenko in "Vikna" program.

From July 1992 to November 1994, Mykola Kniazhytskyi was Director of the Television Creativity Center.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi is one of the founders of "UNIKA", a network of non-governmental television stations.

Since 1997, Mykola Kniazhytskyi was President of STB TV channel and hosted "Vikna-tyzhnevyk" TV program.

Since September 1998, Mykola Kniazhytskyi was president, and from 2 October 1998 to 17 November 1998, he was chairman of the board of the State Joint-Stock Company "Ukrainian Television and Radio Broadcasting" and President of "National Television Company of Ukraine".

Between 16 March 1999 and 20 April 2000, and later from 18 May 2000 to 29 March 2002, Mykola Kniazhytskyi was a member of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi was director and co-owner of the "Mediadim" company that owned assets of Tonis and Hazeta 24.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi publicly announced about illegal takeover of his share by Kosterin, who at that time was the Head of the Party of Greens of Ukraine.

Two weeks later Mykola Kniazhytskyi reported that officers of the tax police "began to terrorize" people who provided services to the TV channel.

In 2013, Mykola Kniazhytskyi founded a new media project, Espreso TV channel.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi hosted "Kniazhytskyi", TV program that focuses on interviews with interesting personalities on major political and social issues.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi was a self-nominated candidate in the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election in Ukraine's 117th electoral district, in Lviv Oblast.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi sued for the results of voting but lost in the court of appeal of Lviv Oblast.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi stated that his sudden dismissal from the post of a member of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine was related to his balloting to the Verkhovna Rada.

On 30 July 2012, it was announced that Mykola Kniazhytskyi was again a candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine, this time as the eleventh candidate on the party list of Batkivshchyna.

In 2016, Mykola Kniazhytskyi was elected Head of EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee and Co-Head of group for interparliamentary relations with the Republic of Poland.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi was a member of group for interparliamentary relations with the French Republic, the Republic of Lithuania, Israel, Latvia, Australia, Canada and the United States of America.

Mykola Kniazhytskyi is one of the authors of draft law "On Amendments to Some Laws of Ukraine on Introduction of Contractual Form of Work in the field of Culture and Competitive Process of Appointment of the Head of State or Municipal Cultural Institution".

In 2014, Mykola Kniazhytskyi initiated the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Some Laws of Ukraine to Ensure the Transparency of Ownership of the Media, as well as Implementation of Principles of Public Policy in the field of Television and Radio Broadcasting".

Mykola Kniazhytskyi is married to Larysa Frantsivna Kniazhytska, a fellow university student who is currently a press manager.