| Vladimir Kulistikov today is perhaps the optimal figure for the Kremlin, whose inhabitants, on the one hand, are tired of the permanent scandals on what was once the best news channel in the country, and on the other hand, reproaches periodically heard from the West for suppressing freedom of speech. Mr. Kulistikov, who has experience working both in Soviet foreign agencies and in independent media, not only at NTV in its best years, but also at Radio Liberty, is certainly able to offer a TV channel that will completely suit the current government and many of its opponents .
Vladimir Kulistikov was born in 1952 in the German Democratic Republic, where his parents worked at the Soviet-German uranium enterprise "Bismuth", graduated from the Faculty of International Journalism at MGIMO in 1974, after which he worked in various departments of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Institute of Scientific Information of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In journalism since 1985. First he rose through the ranks to deputy editor-in-chief of the New Time magazine, then worked for three years for the Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, and from 1993 to 1996 he participated in the creation of the daily news program Liberty Life of the Moscow bureau of Radio Liberty. .
He came to NTV in 1996 and first wrote a letter of resignation in the fall of 2000, when he was deputy general director and head of the information service. Since October 2000, he worked as chairman of the board of the Russian news agency Vesti (then RIA Novosti). In April 2001, he was included in the board of directors of NTV and appointed to the position of editor-in-chief of the television company, and then to the position of first deputy general director. In 2002, Mr. Kulistikov, considered Oleg Dobrodeev’s man, moved to VGTRK, where he headed the directorate of information programs of the Rossiya TV channel.
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