Medvedev Sergei Konstantinovich is a well-known Russian journalist. In his early years, he worked as a columnist and presenter of news programs. He was awarded several television awards. He currently holds the post of Class 1 State Counselor.
Young and student years of Medvedev
Sergei Medvedev was born in the port city of Kaliningrad in 1958. From childhood, he was firmly convinced that his life would be connected with the film industry. His father worked as a TV journalist and quite often took his son with him to work. From an early age, the boy saw how news programs, television shows are edited, interviews are conducted. All this fascinated him very much.
Immediately after leaving school, the young man, without hesitation, decided to enter the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. Having successfully passed the entrance tests, he was enrolled in the ranks of university students. In parallel with his main studies, Medvedev graduated from higher economic courses at the State Planning Committee of the USSR and immediately went to work in the Committee on Television. At the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting, he edited reports, created essays from different parts of the country.
Sergei began his professional career in television journalism at a local Baltic newspaper before graduating. Every year there were more and more proposals for cooperation.
Career in television of Sergei Konstantinovich
In 1986, after graduating from Moscow State University, Sergei Medvedev continued to shoot reports from different cities of the country. After 5 years he was invited to work as a columnist for news programs of the Ostankino television and radio broadcasting company. A little later, he took up the position of the host of the Vremya and 120 Minutes program. Medvedev reported from parliamentary congresses, interviewed famous people in politics (Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Yulia Luzhkov and others).
In the difficult 90s, many TV journalists stopped working on their reports, as it was simply dangerous. But Sergei was the only one who continued to broadcast to TV viewers about the situation in the country. For his material presented to society, he was fired, but only for a short time. Some time after the change of government, he returned, but as an information columnist.
In 1993, Sergei was first awarded a medal for fulfilling his civic duty to defend democracy.
In 1995, he headed the post of Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation and became an assistant to Boris Yeltsin. After 2 years, Sergei returned to television and began to work as deputy general director of the ORT channel, but here he did not last long. In 1997, he was offered a position in the Public Relations Department of RAO UES.
Political career of Sergei Medvedev
Sergei Medvedev worked side by side with Boris Yeltsin for 5 years, went through the dramatic 1996 election campaign with him. In 2000, after Boris Nikolayevich's sensational announcement of his resignation, Sergei Medvedev decided to run for the State Duma in the Kaliningrad District, but as a result of the vote, he lost first place to his rival. In 2007, he repeated this path again, and again could not get enough votes to approve him for the post of deputy of the Kaliningrad region.
In 2001, Sergei Konstantinovich was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of ZAO Independent Television Company RTS, and 2 years later he took the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ostankino TV company.
At present, Sergei Medvedev is one of the founders of a large television company that edits programs for Channel One such as Man and Law and Health. TV viewers can see him in the birthplace of the leading documentary film "Lubyanka". It is worth focusing on the fact that the author of this documentary project is Sergei Konstantinovich. In 2002 the film "Lubyanka" received the highest award "TEFI", and in 2007 the creator of the project was awarded the Prize of the FSB of Russia. In 2013, Sergei tried himself in the role of an actor, playing the role of himself in the short television series "Vangelia".
For a long time Medvedev held the position of general director of the Ostankino company. The man is a member of the Union of Journalists and Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.
Personal life of Medvedev
Sergei Medvedev is married and has two children of different sexes. A man does not like to talk about his family life. In his free time he prefers to travel, play table tennis, swim in the pool and go cycling and skiing. In professional sports, he was not noticed, but Sergey always maintains excellent athletic form. While still a student, he took first places in running, while not really training. Until now, Medvedev has shown excellent skiing ability.
For more than 15 years, Sergei Konstantinovich has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ostankino. He continues to edit news programs for Channel One."
From 2003 to the present, SK Medvedev has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the independent television company Ostankino. In total, he took part in 39 works on television, most of which are in the genre of documentary films. In addition, he voiced 3 films, acted as a presenter in 9 films, became the author of 6 projects. It has two target audiences: Russian and Western. The man works a lot to this day, both on television and in the political sphere.
