Born on February 9, 1962 in Moscow.
Soviet and Russian director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, TV presenter, politician. President of the Managing Organization of OJSC Creative Association "Red Star" (since October 2013)[1]. Since 1997, he has been the host of the legal television program “Man and the Law” on ORT and Channel One.
In 1996-2010 - General Director of the Ostankino television company (formerly RTS), producer of a number of programs for Channel One.
In 1989 he graduated from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics.
In 1992 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov.
He came to television in 1986 as a video engineer, then worked as a cameraman at the Television Center.