Marianna Maksimovskaya (born 7 April 1970) is a Russian journalist and television presenter. She presented the programme "The Week" which was reported as the last independent TV news source in Russia when it was stopped in 2014.

Life

Maksimovskaya was born in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

in 1970. She studied journalism and graduated from the

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. In 1993 she began working for TV companies as a presenter or a correspondent. She worked at the Russian TV companies ORT, NTV, TVS and TV6. She was an anchor and news presenter for

Vladimir Gusinsky Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky (russian: Владимир Александрович Гусинский, ; born 6 October 1952) is a Russian media tycoon. He founded the Media-Most holding company that included the NTV free-to-air channel, t ...

's NTV Station. In 2003 she was a deputy editor at

REN TV REN TV (russian: РЕН ТВ) is a Russian free-to-air television network, was founded on 1 January 1997 by Irena Lesnevskaya and her son, Dmitry Lesnevsky, who had been running REN TV as a production house for other national Russian television ...

. In November 2005

fired Olga Romanova, the anchor of its daily ''24'' news flagship. Despite much publicity around the incident, her manner of reporting was continued by Maksimovskaya presenting "Week" for REN TV. In 2010 Maksimovskaya was presenting evidence that coal miners were not only blocking methane detectors on her programme "Week". They were being encouraged in this practice by mine owners. The mine owners were offering bonuses and the build-up of methane was leading to the deaths of miners. The programme also interviewed

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky (russian: link=no, Михаил Борисович Ходорковский, ; born 26 June 1963), sometimes known by his initials MBK, is an exiled Russian businessman and opposition activist, now residing in L ...

who is one of the Kremlin's leading critics. She presented the programme "The Week" for REN TV until 2014. "The Week" was reported as the last independent TV news source in Russia when it was stopped in 2014. In 2015 she went to work for "Mikhailov & Partners" and three years later she was leading that communication company. According to media reports, in spring 2017, Maksimovskaya was considered for a senior management position at

Sberbank PJSC Sberbank (russian: Сбербанк, initially a contraction of russian: сберегательный банк, translit=sberegatelnyy bank, lit=savings bank, link=no) is a Russian majority state-owned banking and financial services compan ...

. However, the bank's Board eventually did not approve her candidacy.

Awards

She became a member of the Academy of Russian Television in 2007 and she has several

TEFI TEFI (russian: ТЭФИ) is an annual award given in the Russian television industry, presented by the Russian Academy of Television. It has been awarded since 1994. TEFI is presented in various sectors (up to 50 nominations in 2008), such as tele ...

awards.

References

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