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Russian journalist, television presenter and radio host (born 1975)
Maria Sittel
Мария Ситтель
Sittel broadcast a special program "Direct Line with Vladimir Putin" live on the Russia-1 TV channel in 2014
BornMaria Eduardovna Sittel
November 9, 1975
Penza, RSFSR, USSR
NationalityRussian
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • television presenter

Maria Eduardovna Sittel (Russian: Мари́я Эдуа́рдовна Си́ттель; born November 9, 1975) is a Russian television presenter and an anchor on the Vesti program at Russia-1. She won the Russian TEFI award.

Early life and education

Sittel was born on November 9, 1975, in Penza, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She is the daughter of Eduard Anatolyevich Sittel, who has German ancestry, and Larisa Pavlovna.

Sittel studied at the Penza Medical Lyceum until 1993, when she transferred to the V. G. Belinsky Penza Institute of Teacher Education and majored in biology and chemistry. Later, she graduated from the All-Russian State Distance-Learning Institute of Finance and Economics with a degree in finance and credit.

Career

Sittel began her television career in 1997 in her hometown on the program Musical Souvenir on the Penza channel "Our House". In 1998, she became a correspondent and later a news presenter on the Penza Express television channel. In 1999, she started working at State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company in Penza.

From September 24, 2001, to May 14, 2006, Sittel worked as a daily news presenter on Vesti TV channel Russia-1. In September 2003, she replaced Sergey Brilev as the regular nightly newscaster. From 2004 to 2005, she hosted the daily show Osoboe Mnenie ("Minority Report") on Radio Rossii. From May 15, 2006, to June 17, 2016, Sittel presented the nightly news with Dmitry Kiselyov (until July 2008) and Andrey Kondrashov (since September 2008).

Sittel covered the lying-in-state of Boris Yeltsin on April 25, 2007, with Nikolai Svanidze live on Channel One and Russia-1.

From 2008 to 2011, she hosted the annual program Conversation with Vladimir Putin: continued with Ernest Matskyavichus. From September 6, 2009, to December 25, 2011, she hosted the program Special Correspondent. On May 14, 2018, after a two-year break, she returned to the Vesti program.

On 18 March 2022, Sittel, together with Dmitry Guberniev, was the host of the Moscow rally in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Participation in other TV projects

Sittel has participated in episodes of the TV game show Fort Boyard. In 2006, Maria Sittel and professional dancer Vladislav Borodinov took part in the first season of the television competition Dancing with the Stars in Russia. The couple won first place, which gave them the right to participate at the Eurovision Dance Contest 2007, where they finished in seventh place.

Personal life

Sittel is married to Alexander Lyubomirovich Tereshchenko (b. 1979). She has a younger sister, Anna Sittel, who also works at VGTRK. Until 2013, she was the presenter of the Vesti-Penza programme. Sittel is fond of photography, alpine skiing, sports and reading books.

Awards

  • Laureate of the TEFI (2005) award for News programme presenter
  • Order of Friendship (June 27, 2007 ) "for her great contribution to the development of Russian television and many years of fruitful work"
  • Letter of gratitude from the Government of the Russian Federation (March 31, 2009) "for active participation in the coverage of the activities of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation"
  • Letter of gratitude from the Government of the Russian Federation (March 3, 2012) "for active participation in covering the activities of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation"

References

  1. "Завершилась церемония вручения "ТЭФИ"".
  2. "The smartest TV presenter – Svetlana Sorokina". Komsomolskaya Pravda. August 5, 2010.
  3. "Step to the screen: TV stars – about the beginning of their careers". The Hollywood Reporter. November 21, 2016.
  4. "Evgeny Revenko leaves Vesti". Komsomolskaya Pravda. July 23, 2003.
  5. "The Vesti programme will be presented by pairs of hosts, as on NTV". NEWSru.com. May 11, 2006.
  6. Ilya Amladov. Dmitry Kiselyov became top manager of VGTRK //Newspaper "Kommersant "No. 125 dated July 19, 2008. – S. 2.
  7. "State Television Expands Political Broadcast. In accordance with the wishes of the viewers". Kommersant. September 3, 2008.
  8. "Muscovites said goodbye to Boris Yeltsin live". Kommersant. April 27, 2007.
  9. Irina Petrovskaya . "We must do it, dear!" The question-and-answer session registered a movement towards a stable white color. Novaya Gazeta , June 8, 2018
  10. "VGTRK Deputy General Director Yulia Rakcheeva: "It is unprofessional to divide news into bad and good"". Izvestia. September 21, 2009.
  11. "Maria Sittel became one of the "Special Correspondents"". Komsomolskaya Pravda. September 18, 2009.
  12. "Большунов, Рылов, сестры Аверины, Тарасова и Морозов, Синицина и Кацалапов участвуют в митинге «Za мир без нацизма! Zа Россию! Zа Президентa!» в Лужниках". sports.ru (in Russian). March 18, 2022.
  13. Fort Bayard: Scary RTR Games
  14. "Stars are going to Fort Boyard again!". Komsomolskaya Pravda. June 24, 2004.
  15. "Koroleva, Yakovleva and Sittel are learning cha-cha-cha". Komsomolskaya Pravda. January 5, 2006.
  16. "Dance throughout Europe. Dance contest "Eurovision" live on the TV channel "Russia"". Kommersant. August 31, 2007.
  17. "Tsyganochka on the seventh place. "Dancing with the Stars" was rated at Eurovision". Kommersant. September 3, 2007.
  18. "Maria Sittel named her son Nikolai". StarHit. December 23, 2013.
  19. Kiselyov, Dmitry; Zarubin, Pavel (June 22, 2014). "The death of VGTRK journalists; The price of peace is life". News of the week. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  20. "April 13, 2023 » The Voice of the People: The Story of Maria Sittel". April 13, 2023. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
  21. "Profile of the star: Maria Sittel". 7days.ru.
  22. "Maria Sittel: "There is a lot of self-interest around"". Interlocutor. December 6, 2005. Archived from the original on March 11, 2006.
  23. "The TEFI ceremony is over". Lenta.ru. November 18, 2005.
  24. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 27, 2007, No. 815 "On awarding state awards of the Russian Federation"
  25. Order of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 31, 2009, No. 428- р "On the announcement of gratitude from the Government of the Russian Federation"
  26. "Order of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 3, 2012 No. 277-р "On the announcement of gratitude from the Government of the Russian Federation"". Official Internet portal of legal information. March 3, 2012. Retrieved June 7, 2013.

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