A person has talent, intelligence, a desire to become famous. However, fame is different. The personality of Elena Masyuk is ambiguous, as is her interpretation of the events of the war in the North Caucasus in the nineties.
Biography of a journalist
Elena Vasilievna Masyuk was born on January 24, 1966 in the city of Alma-Ata, the former capital of the Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan. After graduating from secondary school, Elena entered the famous Moscow State University at the Faculty of Journalism. After receiving her education, she left for an internship in the United States of America. In 1993, returning to Moscow, the girl got a job on television. Together with Oleg Vakulovsky and Dmitry Zakharov, she hosted the popular Vzglyad program on Central Television. A year later, Elena Masyuk switches to the NTV channel and becomes one of the most prominent journalists on the channel. Then, in 1994, the First Chechen War unfolded in the Caucasus, and Masyuk, as part of a group of journalists, set out for a sensational story.
Career
The reportage she obtained gave the promising and talented journalist her first success, and subsequently numerous awards from the Russian and American governments. Taking the side of the Chechen militants, Masyuk supported their right to freedom, putting Russian soldiers and officers in an unfavorable light. Then Elena kept silent about the real events that took place in Chechnya: about human trafficking and about the abuse of hostages. The documentary film aired causes a public outcry and division of public opinion. The prosecutor's office even tried to open a case against the journalists, but did not find aggravating evidence.
Chechen captivity
Three years after this unseemly incident, Elena Masyuk again goes to the North Caucasus for another report. However, the journalist was able to return only after three months. In May 1997, an anxious year, a risky correspondent, along with a film crew, was captured. Those whom she had defended so fiercely were now asking for ransom for her release. In Moscow, no one really wanted to help Elena Masyuk, given her past reports. Despite this, in September 1997, television journalists were released from captivity. The notorious politician and businessman Boris Abramovich Berezovsky came to the rescue of the film crew. Masyuk was awarded numerous prizes and awards for her unique reporting on Chechnya and for her courage. In 2005, Elena Masyuk ended her career as a journalist and took up teaching, first at Moscow State University, and then at the Institute of Journalism and Broadcasting. In 2011 Elena Masyuk released a series of copyright programs.
Currently, Elena Masyuk still lives in Moscow. The woman's personal life did not work out, and she has neither a husband nor children.
