Background
Portnikov was born in 1967 in Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (modern-day Ukraine).
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Witalij Portnikov
Edit ProfileEducation
He graduated from the Moscow State University Faculty of Journalism in 1990.
Career
During his studies, he cooperated with the Kiev newspaper Molod" Ukrainy. Since 1989, he works as the analyst of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta, specializing in post-Soviet countries, and cooperates with the Russian and Ukrainian services of Radio Free Europe Radio Station Liberty. As a free-lance journalist he has been publishing articles in Russian newspapers Russkiy Telegraf, Kommersant, Vedomosti, Vremya Minnesota, Vremya novostey, Moskovskiye Novosti, Obshaya gazeta, Ukrainian Den", Korrespondent, Profil, Delovaya Nedelya, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, Kontrakty, Novynar, Glavred, Latvian Biznes & Baltia, Telegraf, Estonian Estonia, Postimees, Polish Polityka, Gazeta Wyborcza, Polska, Belarusian Belgazeta.
In 2007, he was the editor-in-chief of the Media-Dom holding & the Ukrainian newspaper Gazeta24.
Since 2008, he has been the author of the weekly television show "Kyivski pohliad". His areas of interest are also Jews and the Middle East.
He is the columnist of the Israel"s most-popular Russian-language newspaper Vesti and Moscow-based Evreiskie novosti. In May 2010 Portnikov was appointed editor-in-chief of TVi.
In November 2012 he became president of this channel.
Achievements
-
Born
-
Nationality
Ukraine Soviet Union