Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselyov

Dmitri Konstantinovich Kiselyov (Russian Дмитрий Константинович Киселёв; born April 26, 1954 in Moscow ) is a Russian journalist.

Life

Kiselyov grew up in Moscow and studied in the 1970s, Scandinavian Studies at the University of Leningrad. He then worked as a journalist, first for the Soviet television, and later for various Russian and Ukrainian channels. Since 2005 he has worked for the television station Rossiya 1 and moderates among others the program Vesti Nedeli, a look back at the news of the week. Kiselyov is also deputy director of the state media holding company WGTRK.

On December 9, 2013 it was announced that the news agency RIA Novosti and the international broadcaster Voice of Russia to resolve on adoption of President Vladimir Putin on 31 December 2013 and should a new state-run news agency called Rossiya Sewodnja take their place. Kiselyov will head this new government agency.

Kiselyov is considered outspoken supporter of the policy of Vladimir Putin. For his 60th birthday he likened Putin in a positive way with the dictator Josef Stalin. In reporting on Kiselyov nationalist, xenophobic, as well as polemical statements on EU policy and homophobic statements from him have been cited more than once. Kiselyov is married and has four children from several marriages.

Awards

• May 5, 2011 Order of Friendship.

On April 3, 2014 Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaite withdrew Kiselyov 1994 awarded a Medal of Honor.