
Journalist Andrei Kondrashov , who was the press secretary of the election headquarters of the winner in the presidential election, Vladimir Putin , was appointed First Deputy General Director of the VGTRK Holding, TASS reports.
“The powers are associated with a wide range of questions and coordination in the political broadcasting of the entire holding,” Kondrashov himself explained (a quote for RIA Novosti ). He added that Anton Zlatopolsky also performs the functions of the first deputy leader of the holding.
Kondrashov, who graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the International Independent Ecological and Political University in Moscow, has been working in the Vesti program since 1991. He was also his own correspondent of VGTRK in Central Asia, illuminated the events in hot spots in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Balkans.
In 2016, Kondrashov headed the Vesti Directorate. He is known as the author of the television films "Berezovsky", "Crimea. The Way to Homeland", "Valaam" and a number of others.
The journalist was awarded the medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree and I degree. Kondrashov is a laureate of the TEFI Award in the nomination "Leading Information Programs" in pairs with Maria Sittel (2015).
Last year, the interlocutor’s newspaper conducted an investigation on the financial successes of Putin’s proxies in the elections in 2012 and drew attention to the fact that the well -being of those who expressed support for politics, then increased markedly.
The elections of the President of Russia took place on March 18. The current head of state Vladimir Putin won a convincing victory. He gained more than 76% of the vote.
In these elections, Putin was supported by 56.4 million people, or 76.7% of voters. Thus, he scored 10.6 million more votes than in the past elections in 2012. As a result, Putin set two records at once - in absolute and percentage terms.