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Biography
Egor Kuroptev (Russian: Егор Куроптев) is a Russian media manager and TV producer.
Kuroptev currently holds the position of the Projects’ Director at the GAA Holding (Georgia)and the General Producer of the media startup project - Star Media Groupthat includes local TV channel, radio-station, news agency and a production company.
Career
Kuroptev started his career in the age of 17 as a head of administration dept at Echo of Moscownews radio in Moscow.
He worked for Echo of Moscow till 2007 when he decided to start his career as a startup projects director. Together with his colleague and friend Matvey Ganapolsky (famous journalist and media manager) Kuroptev launched a new media startup project for Comcor Holding- cable TV Channel VKT AKADO that was successfully produced by their team. Since 2006 Kuroptev worked as a media and PR projects director for several companies and NGO’s including AVI-CHAI foundation (Russia), Talents of the World foundation (Caucasus), Rikor Holding (Russia), Russian-American Foundation (USA),AS Group Investment (Azerbaijan), MTV (Russia), 1st Channel (Russia), Hydepark TV production studio (Russia-Georgia) and other well-known companies of various countries.
He produced several well-known media projects such as Runway Project (Russia), Cosmopolitan.Videoversion (Russia), Main topic TV show(Georgia), Applause project, On the Stadium, etc. During the career Kuroptev launched several entertainment, political, educational and social projects
in Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and some other countries.
Georgia
In 2012 Kuroptev was invited to Georgia to launch a new political talk-show "Main topic" presented by one of the famous leaders of the Russian opposition Ksenia Sobchak for state TV company PIK TVowned by Georgian Public Broadcaster. In 2013 he produced several charity classicaland pop-concertsin Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Since 2014 he holds the position of Projects’ Director for GAA Holding that unites several well-known advertising, media and trading companies.
In the beginning of 2015 Kuroptev launched a new media project Star media group focused on unbiased news and Georgia's western integration. He became the General Producer for Star Media Group– media company that unites several web and broadcasting media sources covering EU association agreement, cooperation between Georgia and NATO so as a local Georgian politics. This media company also produces high level discussions in talk-shows on current situation regarding conflicts between Russia and Georgia so as between Ukraine and Russia. As a general producer of the project Kuroptev also focuses on human rights protection cooperating with local NGO's and international organizations representatives.
Kuroptev writes a blogon the famous Russian news web-site echo.msk.ru covering the conflict between Russia and Georgia.
In the interviews he underlines that Russian citizens must know more about the conflict, facts of 2008 August War and current situation in this regard.
In November 2016 Kuroptev became a host for the new political talk-show in Russian language Пограничная ZONA. Project is produced by Georgian national TV channel Starvision for Russian-speaking audience in Georgia, on occupied territories and outside of the country. In this project Kuroptev discusses the occupied territories and Georgia western integration related topics with a high-level guests.