Sergey Medvedev

Sergey Konstantinovich Medvedev (Russian: Сергей Константинович Медведев; June 2, 1958 in Kaliningrad) is a Russian journalist, filmmaker and TV presenter.

Sergey Medvedev was born on June 2, 1958 in Kaliningrad in the family of a TV journalist. He started his career in a local newspaper. In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow State University Faculty of Journalism, he also was trained at the Gosplan economics courses. From 1981 to 1991 he worked in the USSR State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting (Radio and Television of the USSR). With the voice recorder in hand, he travelled the whole USSR country, making reports from the field. In1991-1992Medvedev worked as a presenter Information Programs Studiosof All-Union State Broadcasting Company Ostankino [ru].

About one and a half years in the period 1995-1996 he was the press secretary of the Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

Following the resignation from the post of press secretary Medvedev returns to television and became thefirst deputy general director of ORT. In 2000, Medvedev took part in the elections to the State Duma from the Kaliningrad district number 84 as an independent candidate, but the results of voting placed him the second.

Together with Alexey Pimanov [ru] he is the founder of one of the largest broadcasting companies of the countryOstankino, which creates the content for the first and other federal channels in Russia. From 2003 to the present time Medvedev is the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

He is a member of the Russian Union of Journalists and the Union of Cinematographers of Russia.