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Russian TV presenter, writer and public figure. Deputy Director of the Rossiya TV channel for special informational projects, President of the Bering-Bellingshausen Institute for Both Americas (Montevideo), member of the Praesidium of the Foreign and Defence Policy Council (Moscow), the only Russian journalist to have interviewed both the last two Presidents of the Russian Federation and the USA: Putin and Medvedev, Bush and Obama. Born 24 July 1972 in Havana (Cuba). Graduated from MGIMO MID RF (1995, Moscow), the Montevideo Institute of Foreign Languages (1991, Uruguay), and finished BBC courses (1995, London). Career: 1990–1993: Komsomolskaya Pravda. Trainee, scholarship holder, correspondent-intern in the department of science and education. 1993–1995: Moscow News. International department special correspondent. In parallel, Moscow correspondent of the Uruguay El Observador Económico and the Argentinian La Razón, as well as Russian State Duma Latin America expert. Since 1995: Rossiya (RTR) TV channel, including: 1995–1996: Vesti special correspondent (including during the First Chechen War). 1996–2001: Bureau Chief in London. First broadcast as presenter on 11 September 2001 (day of the terrorist acts in the USA). 2001–2003: presenter of evening Vesti. 2003–2007: presenter of Vesti Nedeli, Deputy Director, Directorate of information programmes. Since 2008: presenter of the Vesti on Saturday programme, Deputy Director of Rossiya TV channel. Author of a multitude of documentary films: Secret of Three Oceans, Constitutional Practice, Duma Thinking, Right to Right, Heavy Oil, Another Coal, The Caribbean Crisis. An Incomprehensible Story, Nazarbayev’s Line, etc. Author of the books: Forgotten Allies in World War II (2012) and Fidel. Football. Falklands (2008). One of the main spheres of his professional activity is interviewing heads of state. In particular, in Latin America: Chavez (Venezuela), Ortega (Nicaragua), Correa (Ecuador), Morales (Bolivia), Sanguinetti (Uruguay), Bachelet (Chile) and so on. By order of the Russian President, awarded the Order of Friendship, the medals 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg and 1000th Anniversary of Kazan (2005). Was the finalist and winner of the TEFI awards many times. Speaks English and Spanish fluently.

Henry A. Kissinger served as US Secretary of State (1973 - 1977) and National Security Advisor (1969 - 1975). Currently, he is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm; a member of the International Council of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; Counselor to and Trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Honorary Governor of the Foreign Policy Association; Honor Member of the International Olympic Committee; member of the Board of Directors of ContiGroup Companies, Inc.; Board of Directors of American Express Company (1984 - 2005) and Advisor to the Board since 2005; member of the Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense, since 2001; member of the faculty of the Department of Government and the Center for International Affairs at Harvard College (1954 - 1969). Bronze Star from the US Army in 1945, Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, US Medal of Freedom in 1977, Medal of Liberty in 1986. Dr. Kissinger is the author of Diplomacy, On China and fourteen other books and has published numerous articles, syndicated by Tribune Media Services Intl.

Born October 29, 1929 in Kiev. 1956: Moscow State University Graduate School. Candidate, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor. 1956–1062: USSR State Radio and Television Committee. 1965–1970: Pravda Special Correspondent in the Middle East. 1977–1985: Director of the Oriental Studies Institute under the USSR Academy of Sciences. 1979: Academic of the USSR Academy of Sciences. 1985–1989: Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the USSR Academy of Sciences. 1989–1990: Chairman of the Council of the Union of the USSR Supreme Soviet, Member of the Presidential Council and the USSR Security Council. 1991–1996: Director of the USSR Central Intelligence Service, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. 1996: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. 1998: Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. 1999: Russian State Duma Deputy, Head of the Fatherland – All Russia fraction. December 14, 2001 – March 4, 2011: President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. 2002: President, Chairman of the Mercury Club. 2008: Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Has several publications and awards.