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Alexei Venediktov (Alexei Alexeyevich Venediktov) was born on 18 December, 1955 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, is a Russian radio presenter. Discover Alexei Venediktov's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

Popular As Alexei Alexeyevich Venediktov
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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 18 December, 1955
Birthday 18 December
Birthplace Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russia

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Parents Alexei Venediktov, Eleonora Dykhovichnaya
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1955

Alexei Alexeyevich Venediktov (Алексе́й Алексе́евич Венеди́ктов; born 18 December 1955) 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.

Alexei Venediktov was born in Moscow, USSR on 18 December 1955.

His paternal grandfather Nikolai Andrianovich Venediktov served in NKVD and was awarded an Order of the Red Star for taking part in court-martials and creating barrier troops during the Great Patriotic War.

His father, Alexei Nikolaevich Venediktov, was a navy submarine officer killed in a storm shortly before Alexei's birth.

Venediktov's mother, Eleonora Abramovna Dykhovichnaya, was a doctor of Jewish origin; she came from a generation of prominent engineers.

1978

Venediktov graduated from the evening division of Moscow State Pedagogical University in 1978.

After graduation he worked as a postman for some time, then as a history teacher for 20 years straight, 19 of them — at the Moscow school No.875.

1983

In 1983 she along with Alexei's sister emigrated to the United States.

One of her cousins was a film director Ivan Dykhovichny.

A popular musician Andrey Makarevich also happens to be Alexei's distant relative.

1990

In 1990, he began working for Echo of Moscow radio.

He began as a newspaper observer and reporter and later headed the news division.

1994

On December 6, 1994, 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.

The meeting didn't happen, as Dudayev left to meet with general Pavel Grachev.

The parliamentarians tried to persuade the captured officers to go home with them, but they were afraid, likely threatened that they'd be killed if they agreed.

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.

The meeting was immediately stopped, and Dudaev's guards escorted him outside, made him face the wall and staged a mock execution.

Ten minutes of clicking the bolts, and Venediktov was brought back.

The delegation was allowed to take 7 out of 14 prisoners back to Moscow.

1998

He was editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow from 1998 to 2022.

During his tenure he interviewed presidents Bill Clinton, Jacques Chirac, Francois Hollande, Kersti Kaljulaid and Ilham Aliyev; German chancellor Angela Merkel; US Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice; Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan and many other prominent political leaders.

2002

From 2002 until 2010, Venediktov also served as president of Echo TV Russia.

2006

In 2006, he co-hosted a short-lived TV show In the Circle of Light with Svetlana Sorokina at Domashny TV channel.

It was shut down within two weeks, supposedly for its harsh critics of the Judiciary of Russia, although the producer, Alexander Rodnyansky, denied it had anything to do with politics.

2012

In February 2012, Venediktov resigned from Echo's board of directors in protest against the Gazprom-Media attempt to announcement to change the board.

He later said that it was Vladimir Putin who personally saved him and his station from closure by Mikhail Lesin.

According to Venediktov, this happened at least twice during the Dmitry Medvedev's presidency.

In 2012, Venediktov founded the first popular history magazine in Russia, Diletant.

2014

Venediktov returned to the board in 2014, only to leave it again in June 2018.

This time he opposed the harmful budgeting decisions made by the station's top management.

In 2014, he became the sole publisher of the magazine, and in 2018 Diletant broke even, with circulation reaching 60.000.

Venediktov described his political views as conservative and himself as a reactionary, with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher representing his ideals in politics.

2015

Until 2015, 33.02% of all Echo of Moscow's shares were owned by the American company EM-Holding, with 1/3 of them belonging to Venediktov and Yuri Fedutinov (ex-chief executive at the station) and others — to the Israeli media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky and his partners.

But in 2015, the Russian State Duma passed a new law forbidding foreign citizens from owning more than 20% of all shares in a national media company.

In order to bypass it, a Russian-based company named Echo of Moscow Holding Company was registered.

2016

As of 2016, it owned 13.10% of total shares (49.5% of them belonged to Venediktov alone), while the American company controlled 19.92% of shares.

He is a member of the Public Board of the Russian Ministry of Defence and the Civic Chamber of Moscow since 2016.

Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation accused Venediktov of providing PR support to the mayor of Moscow in return for the money received for publishing an add-on to the Diletant magazine.

Venediktov said that he had announced the collaboration openly and did not earn anything from the project.