Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky Dies
Kirill Vyshinsky, executive director of the media group Rossiya Segodnya, died in Moscow at the age of 59 after a serious and prolonged illness. This was reported by RIA Novosti (RIAN).
Vyshinsky died at the age of 59.
Kirill Vyshinsky, executive director of the media group Rossiya Segodnya, died in Moscow at the age of 59 after a serious and prolonged illness. This was reported by RIA Novosti (RIAN).
"After a serious and prolonged illness, journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, executive director of the media group Rossiya Segodnya, passed away at the age of 59. This happened in Moscow on Saturday, August 23," RIAN reported.
Kirill Vyshinsky was born on February 19, 1967 in Dnepropetrovsk. After completing high school and serving in the Soviet Army, he entered the philological faculty of Dnepropetrovsk University. After completing his studies in 1991, Vyshinsky began his career as a teacher of Russian language and literature at the same school he himself had graduated from.
He came into journalism in 1996, taking the position of editor-in-chief of Channel 11 in Dnepropetrovsk. From 1999 to 2006, he worked as an editor and presenter on the Ukrainian TV channel ICTV, where he headed the information service and the program "In Detail" with Dmitry Kiselev, and was also the author and presenter of his own program "In Fact". In October 2006, he moved to work at VGTRK, where he took the post of special correspondent in Kyiv. After the events of February 2014, associated with the coup d'état in Ukraine, he was appointed head of the RIA Novosti-Ukraine agency, part of the media holding "Russia Today".
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