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Zhanna Leonidovna Agalakova (Russian: Жа́нна Леони́довна Агала́кова; born 6 December 1965, Kirov, USSR) is a Russian journalist, special correspondent, and television news presenter.
In 2002 she was nominated for the TEFI Award and in 2006 was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland".
Career
In 1992 Agalakova became the RIA Novosti news agency's gossip correspondent. From 1996 she broadcast on the NTV (Russia) channel.
In October 1999 she joined Channel One Russia, presenting the daytime and evening editions of Novosti ("News"), as well as the main evening news programme Vremya. In May 2000 she announced the results of the Russian professional jury's voting at the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm. Between 2000 and 2002 she presented the television programme Vremena together with Vladimir Posner.
In September 2005 Agalakova became Channel One Russia's own correspondent in Paris and in January 2013 the station's special correspondent in New York.
