Education
Moscow State University.
Moscow State University.
In 2001, British Broadcasting Corporation News described her as one of Russia"s "best-known news presenters". In January 2001, she was summoned by prosecutors to discuss an alleged $70,000 loan from NTV. The summons came in the midst of an attempted takeover of the station by Gazprom, and Mitkova described it as "psychological pressure and a direct threat to journalists." At the end of the month, a Moscow court gave Gazprom control of NTV"s owner Media-Most, which was by then described by BusinessWeek as "Russia"s sole independent national television station" and by the New York Times as "the last nationwide voice critical of President Vladimir V. Putin". Despite a lockout of some journalists who refused to "plead fealty" to new management, Mitkova was persuaded to stay with the station by new owner Boris Jordan.