Kulistikov Vladimir

Kulistikov Vladimir Date of Birth

20 May 1952

Kulistikov Vladimir Citizenship

Russia

Kulistikov Vladimir Professional field/official position

Former Director General of NTV Television Company (2004 – 2015), adviser to the Director-General of the VGTRK State Media Holding

Kulistikov Vladimir biography

KULISTIKOV Vladimir Mikhailovich (b. 1952) is a Russian media manager. Born in East Germany where his parents worked at the Soviet-German uranium enterprise, he graduated from the faculty of International Journalism MGIMO in 1974. After that, he worked at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade, then at the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences. In 1985, he became Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Novoye Vremya magazine.

In 1990–1993, he was a correspondent for the Arab newspaper Al-Hayat in Moscow, in 1993–1996 he collaborated with Radio Liberty.
In 1996, he began working on NTV channel, as Chief Editor of the information service, Deputy General Director, host of the Hero of the Day program. Between 2001 and 2002 he was the Chief Editor and First Deputy General Director of NTV.
In 2002-2004, he was Deputy Chairman of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) and Director of the Information Programs Directorate of the Rossiya TV Channel. From July 5, 2004, to October 21, 2015, he was the General Director and Editor-in-Chief of NTV.
Since October 2015, he has been an adviser to the Director-General of VGTRK and the columnist at Life.ru and the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.