Vitaly Portnikov

Vitaly Portnikov (b. 1967) is a Ukrainian editor and journalist.

Biography

Born in 1967 in Kiev, Portnikov graduated from the MSU Faculty of Journalism in 1990. During his studies, he cooperated with the Kyiv newspaper "Molod' Ukrainy".

Since 1989, he works as the analyst of the "Nezavisimaya Gazeta", specializing in post-Soviet countries, and cooperates with the Russian and Ukrainian services of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

As a free-lance journalist he has been publishing articles in Russian "Russkij Telegraf", "Kommersant", "Vedomosti", "Vremya MN", "Vremya novostej", "Moskovskiye Novosti", "Obshaja gazeta", Ukrainian "Den"', "Korrespondent", "Profil", "Delovaja Nedelja", "Zerkalo Nedeli", "Kontrakty", "Novynar", "Glavred", Latvian "Biznes & Baltia", "Telegraf", Estonian "Estonia", "Postimees", Polish "Polityka", "Gazeta Wyborcza"," Polska", Byelorussian "Belgazeta". In 2007, he was the editor-in-chief of the Media-Dom holding & the Ukrainian newspaper "Gazeta24". Sinse 2008, he is the author of the weekly TV-show "Kyivski pohliad". His areas of interest are also Jews and the Middle East. He is the columnist of the Israel's most-popular Russian-language newspaper "Vesti" and Moscow-based "Evreiskie novosti".

Awards

Vitaly Portnikov is the winner of the "Zolotoe Pero 1989", the award of the Ukrainian Association of Journalists. He has also been nominated for the title of the Journalist jf the Year in Ukraine.