Alexey Pivovarov
Alexey Pivovarov (Russian: Алексей Пивоваров) (born 12 June 1974, Moscow) is a Russian journalist working for NTV.
Pivovarov began his career in 1988 working in radio. Since 2005 he has been well known as a news presenter for Segodnia (Today), usually appearing with Lilia Gildeeva, and for his own TV projects. At the beginning of his TV career, Pivovarov was a protégé of Leonid Parfyonov. In 2004-2005 when Parfyonov was fired from NTV, Pivovarov supported him with a sarcastic comment on the air, and was suspended from the evening news as punishment.[1] In 2008-2011 Pivovarov made five historical films for Russian TV.
The news agency Reuters called Pivovarov "an unlikely opposition hero" after the website of the newspaper Kommersant reported that he allegedly refused to read the news on December 8, 2011 if he could not report on the ongoing protests in Moscow, which were being ignored by the state-controlled media. The next day, reports on the protests were included in the evening NTV news report, and other channels followed their example.[2][3] NTV denied that Pivovarov had made any ultimatum,[4] and Pivovarov himself never confirmed the report.
Pivovarov is married to journalist Anna Schneider, and has a son named Ivan.[5]
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Notes
- ↑ "Russia TV host suspended for joke", 9 December 2004, BBC News. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ↑ Орлов, Ю. (10 December 2011). "Ведущий НТВ Алексей Пивоваров отказался выходить в эфир без освещения темы митингов ("Leading NTV Alexei Pivovarov refused to broadcast coverage of topics without meetings")" (in Russian). ЕВРОСМИ. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ↑ "RPT-Russian TV struggles with Kremlin control". Reuters. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ↑ НТВ опровергло сообщения об ультиматуме телеведущего Lenta.ru (Russian)
- ↑ "Алексей Пивоваров. Карьера, любовь, наказание…". protelik.ru. 30 January 2007. Archived from the original on 14 September 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2012.