Yekaterina Besikiyevna Kotrikadze[a] (Russian: Екатерина Бесикиевна Котрикадзе; Georgian: ეკატერინე კოტრიკაძე, romanized: Ekaterine Kotrikadze; born 23 March 1984) is a Georgian-Russian journalist and media manager, host of the TV Rain channel and the former head of the information service of the RTVI TV channel.[1]
Ekaterina Kotrikadze | |
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Екатерина Котрикадзе  | |
| Born | 23 March 1984 Tbilisi |
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| Occupation | Journalist, news presenter, media manager |
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| Spouse(s) | Tikhon Dzyadko |
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| Position held | television presenter (TV Rain, 2020–) |
After having criticized the Russian president Vladimir Putin for having started the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she moved to Latvia for security reasons.[2]
Early life
editEkaterina Kotrikadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 2005 she graduated with honours from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University.[3]
Her mother died in the explosion of house number 19 on Guryanov Street in Moscow in 1999; their apartment was above the epicenter of the explosion.[4][5]
Career
editFrom 2003 to 2005, Ekaterina worked on the Dangerous Zone (Russian: Опасная зона) programme on the TVC channel.[6]
In 2006 she returned to Georgia.[7] The first place of work in Georgia was the Alania TV channel, where Kotrikadze started from the position of an ordinary reporter, having worked for three years. At the same time, in 2008, she began cooperation on the RTVI channel as a correspondent for Georgia.[6] In 2009 she began working for the Russian radio station Echo of Moscow.[8]
In October 2009, she became one of the founders of the Russian-language television channel the First informational Caucasian (FIC), which was created in Georgia. Ekaterina headed the information service and in 2011 she took the position of general director,[9] in 2012 – chief editor of the information service.[10][11]
In 2012, after the closure of the FIC channel,[12] she accepted RTVi's invitation to become head of the information service and form the channel's editorial policy. In 2016, after Alexey Pivovarov joined the channel as general producer and editor-in-chief, she was appointed deputy editor-in-chief.
In February 2018, she accused Leonid Slutsky, a member of the Russian State Duma from the Liberal Democratic Party, of sexual harassment.[13]
In April 2019, she was invited as a speaker on the topic of the safety of journalists at the international journalism festival in Perugia, Italy.[1]
In June 2020, she went on maternity leave,[14] and later left RTVi.
Since September 2020, she has been a host of the TV Rain channel.[15]
Personal life
editEkaterina Kotrikadze's first husband was Egor Kuroptev. Her second husband was Alexey Zyunkin and the couple have a son, David.[6]
In 2019, she married Russian journalist Tikhon Dzyadko.[6] They have a son, Maxim.
Notes
edit- ^ Also transliterated as Ekaterina
References
edit- ^ a b "Ekaterina Kotrikadze". International Journalism Festival. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ ""VIDEO: Russia's Info War"". ABC Net (Australia). 23 February 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Наш дом на Моховой" [Our house on Mokhovaya] (PDF). fjmgu.typecat.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "The terrorist attacks in New York and Moscow: how to protect the memory of those killed in the United States and Russia". ForumDaily. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
- ^ "Russia in the late 1990s: Apartment bombings that accelerated Vladimir Putin's rise to power". YouTube. 19 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Екатерина Котрикадзе" [Ekaterina Kotrikadze]. 24smi.org (in Russian). Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ Veselov, Alexander (8 December 2019). "Екатерина Котрикадзе: «Рано или поздно Путин ко мне придет»" [Ekaterina Kotrikadze: "Sooner or later Putin will come to me"]. freecity.lv (in Russian). Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ "kotrikadze — Пользователи" [kotrikadze — Users]. Echo of Moscow (in Russian). Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ "Екатерина Котрикадзе возглавила телеканал "ПИК"" [Ekaterina Kotrikadze became the head of the FIC TV channel]. newsgeorgia.ru (in Russian). 3 October 2011. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Tsiklauri, Maya (13 January 2012). "Компания «Алания» будет управлять каналом «ПИК» до конца 2012 года" [The Alania company will manage the FIC channel until the end of 2012]. Media.ge (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ "Права на управление грузинским телеканалом ПИК на год переданы компании "Алания"" [The rights to manage the Georgian TV channel FIC were transferred to the Alania company for a year]. Caucasian Knot (in Russian). 15 January 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ "Грузинский русскоязычный телеканал ПИК прекратил свое вещание" [Georgian Russian-language TV channel FIC ceases broadcasting]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 20 October 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ "Заместитель главреда RTVI Екатерина Котрикадзе рассказала о домогательствах Леонида Слуцкого" [RTVI Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ekaterina Kotrikadze spoke about Leonid Slutsky's harassment]. RTVI (in Russian). 28 February 2018. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ Kurnosova, Anastasia (29 June 2020). "Шнуров стал генеральным продюсером RTVI" [Shnurov became the general producer of RTVI]. RBK Group (in Russian). Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ Solomin, Alexey (30 September 2020). "Екатерина Котрикадзе — Персонально ваш" [Ekaterina Kotrikadze — Yours personally]. Echo of Moscow (in Russian). Retrieved 17 February 2021.