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Category Archive: Television

Julia Vysotskaya – actress, TV presenter

Julia Vysotskaya - actress, TV presenter

Julia Vysotskaya – actress, TV presenter


Julia Vysotskaya is a Russian film and theater actress, television presenter.
Cute girl was born on August 16, 1973 in Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast. Her parents divorced when the girl was very small. Then the mother got married for the second time, so Julia had a younger sister Inna. The girl’s stepfather was a military man and was forced to change his place of residence. The childhood of the future actress was in constant moving, she managed to live in Yerevan, Tbilisi and Baku. During her studies, Julia changed seven schools.
She graduated from the Belorussian State Academy of Arts in 1995 and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1998.
After graduating from the university, Julia was invited to play at the Belorussian National Academic Theater. However, she must have had Belarusian citizenship. To solve this bureaucratic problem, Vysotskaya married her classmate Anatoly Kot.
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Yana Rudkovskaya – TV, music producer

Yana Rudkovskaya

Yana Rudkovskaya – TV, music producer


Yana Rudkovskaya is a beautiful woman, Dima Bilan, Evgeny Plushenko, Vlad Sokolov’s manager, TV host and music producer. Now she is a CEO of Franck Provost salons in Russia. From 1998 to 2001 she owned French Beauty Studio salons.
In 2003 Yana opened Grand La Scala Fashion Group. Today these boutiques represent such brands as Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint Laurent, Roberto Cavalli, Dsquared and others.
Pretty girl was born on January 2, 1975 in Moscow into a family of military personnel. Her childhood Yana spent in Barnaul, Russia. After school, she entered the Altai State Medical University.
In 2005 Rudkovskaya became Russian singer Dima Bilan’s producer. It so happened that before the death Yury Aizenshpis asked Yana to go with Dima to 2005 Russian Music Awards ceremony. Rudkovskaya not only supported Dima at the ceremony, where he won two awards, but did not leave him in his future endeavors.
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Yana Churikova, journalist and TV host

Yana Churikova, journalist and TV host

Yana Churikova, journalist and TV host


Yana Churikova is a Russian journalist and television host. She worked on MTV Russia before moving to Channel One, where she hosted seven seasons of the show Star Factory. Also she has gained publicity across Europe and the world for presenting the results of the Russian televote at the Eurovision Song Contest. Churikova was a presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, held in Moscow, Russia.
Pretty girl was born on November 6, 1978 in Moscow. In 1985 the girl went to school in Hungary, where her father, a military man, served. The family of Yana returned to Moscow in the late eighties, when Soviet troops left Hungary. Yana graduated from the School of Music.
In 1995-2000 she studied at the Moscow State University.
From 1998 to 2002 Churikova worked for MTV Russia. She was a presenter of Big Movie, 12 Angry Viewers and also she was a producer of some programs.
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Alla Mikheeva – actress, TV presenter

Charming TV presenter Alla

Charming TV presenter Alla


Alla Mikheeva is a Russian theater and film actress, TV presenter.
Cute girl was born on February 7, 1989. She spent her childhood in Siberia, in the city of Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast. Then her family moved to St. Petersburg. She was a very active child. Alla was engaged in ballroom dancing, skiing and went to the music school.
From 2005 to 2007 she worked as a TV presenter on Channel Five.
In 2008, she entered the Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy.
By the way, she is an actress of Music and Drama Theatre BUFF (St. Petersburg). She plays the roles of Eynsford Hill and Clara Hill in the play Eliza and the role of Clara in the play Doctor of Philosophy.
Also she takes part in Mirrored living room’s program Ship Hope.
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Agata Gotova

Agata Gotova - Russian TV presenter

Agata Gotova – Russian TV presenter


Agata Gotova was born on October 14, 1977 in Moscow.
The girl began her career as a child star in the former Soviet Union’s version of The Mickey Mouse Club, the morning show Budilnik (Alarm Clock, 1987).
She spent her childhood touring Europe and performing as part of the famous children’s dance troupe Kalinka and headlined the troupe’s 1989 film Kalinka (1989).
As a teenager, she performed in satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky’s Political Cabaret.
Then she moved to France and attended the Sorbonne University.
After immigrating to the United States, she worked on a program for Russian Television which focused on celebrity interviews and events. This evolved into the 1999 celebrity interview program, Faces and Names.
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Olga Buzova, TV host of Dom-2

Olga Buzova, TV host of Dom-2

Olga Buzova, TV host of Dom-2


Olga Buzova (after marriage – Tarasova) is a TV presenter, radio host, model, actress and singer. She is a former participant and now a TV host of the television project Dom-2 on the TNT channel. Also she is the editor-in-chief of The World of Reality Show Dom-2 since December 2008.
Pretty girl was born on January 20, 1986 in Leningrad.
Roman Tretyakov and Olga were TV hosts of youth talk show Roman with Buzova on TNT channel in 2005-2006.
Also Olga was a presenter of the TV show Black Label.
By the way, she was a host of the Seventh International Beauty Contest Miss Russian Radio 2007.
On May 31, 2007 (the World Day of blondes) Lubov Voropayeva, producer of the Golden Person Award, presented the award to Buzova as the most stylish and bright blonde of the country.
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Maria Lemesheva, Russian TV presenter

Maria Lemesheva, Russian TV presenter

Maria Lemesheva, Russian TV presenter


Maria Lemesheva is a Russian TV presenter, reporter, and editor in chief of The Hollywood Reporter, a columnist for Marie Claire.
Pretty girl was born on August 14, 1970 in Moscow. In her childhood Maria was interested in art and music. In 1994 she graduated from secondary school. Also she graduated from the music school. Since her childhood Maria has been painting a lot.
Lemesheva graduated from the philological faculty of the Moscow State University, and then she studied history of art in Zurich.
By the way, she worked in the international department of the Television News Service on the channel 6.
In 2000 she worked on REN TV. You know, she was a special correspondent in the department of culture. For her work she received many awards and diplomas.
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