Popov Evgeny

Popov Evgeny Date of Birth

11 September 1978

Russia

TV Presenter

POPOV Evgeny Georgievich (b. 1978 in Vladivostok) graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Far Eastern State University in 2000.

While being a student, he began working as a correspondent for local television and radio companies.
Since 2000, he has worked in various branches of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK), starting with the correspondent of the Vesti program in Vladivostok. Later he moved to Moscow.
In 2003, he worked in the Ukrainian office of the Rossiya TV channel. In 2005, he was a political observer of the Vesti Nedeli newscast.
In 2007, he became a correspondent for the Rossiya TV channel in the U.S. and head of the Vesti New York bureau.
From 2014 to 2017, he replaced Dmitry Kiselyov as the host of the Vesti program during his vacations, and also hosted the Special Correspondent talk show instead of Arkady Mamontov. Since September 12, 2016, he has been a co-host of the talk show 60 Minutes with his wife Olga Skabeeva.