Leonid Gennadyevich Parfyonov (Russian: Леонид
Ð"еннадьевич ПарфÑ'нов, born January 26, 1960 in
Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast) is a Russian journalist, news presenter,
TV producer and author of many documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is
known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was
Producer General between 1997 and 1999) until that TV channel was
bought by the government-owned Gazprom Media. From December 3, 2004
until December 20, 2007 he was an Editor-in-Chief of Russky Newsweek,
Russian edition of Newsweek. Parfyonov is currently a member of
Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.As the author
and narrator of the daily culture news TV show Namedni on NTV,
Parfyonov produced the line of popular history TV documentaries which
he narrated and hosted on-site of almost each event portrayed. The
series achieved great success and were repeatedly broadcast for years
after premiere.In November 2010 Parfyonov became the first recipient
of the Listyev Prize, in honour of Vladislav Listyev, a Russian TV
journalist who was murdered in 1995. On the live-broadcast ceremony
for the prize, Parfyonov made an unexpected and emotional speech
damning Russian TV community for dependence on the authorities, saying
“journalists are not journalists at all but bureaucrats, following
the logic of service and submission†. This became a contradiction to
the past, when Parfyonov had refrained from making political
statements, saying "I am a professional journalist, not a professional
revolutionary. My job is to report, not to climb the barricades".In
February 2018, Parfyonov created a YouTube channel named Parfenon,
where he publishes his documentaries and runs a weekly blog on "what
has happened [to Parfyonov] during the week, what [he] saw, and what
[he] thought about" as written in his channel's description. He later
revived his TV show Namedni and started discussing the latest news. As
of April 2020, his channel has 760 thousand subscribers and almost 50
million views.
Ð"еннадьевич ПарфÑ'нов, born January 26, 1960 in
Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast) is a Russian journalist, news presenter,
TV producer and author of many documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is
known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was
Producer General between 1997 and 1999) until that TV channel was
bought by the government-owned Gazprom Media. From December 3, 2004
until December 20, 2007 he was an Editor-in-Chief of Russky Newsweek,
Russian edition of Newsweek. Parfyonov is currently a member of
Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.As the author
and narrator of the daily culture news TV show Namedni on NTV,
Parfyonov produced the line of popular history TV documentaries which
he narrated and hosted on-site of almost each event portrayed. The
series achieved great success and were repeatedly broadcast for years
after premiere.In November 2010 Parfyonov became the first recipient
of the Listyev Prize, in honour of Vladislav Listyev, a Russian TV
journalist who was murdered in 1995. On the live-broadcast ceremony
for the prize, Parfyonov made an unexpected and emotional speech
damning Russian TV community for dependence on the authorities, saying
“journalists are not journalists at all but bureaucrats, following
the logic of service and submission†. This became a contradiction to
the past, when Parfyonov had refrained from making political
statements, saying "I am a professional journalist, not a professional
revolutionary. My job is to report, not to climb the barricades".In
February 2018, Parfyonov created a YouTube channel named Parfenon,
where he publishes his documentaries and runs a weekly blog on "what
has happened [to Parfyonov] during the week, what [he] saw, and what
[he] thought about" as written in his channel's description. He later
revived his TV show Namedni and started discussing the latest news. As
of April 2020, his channel has 760 thousand subscribers and almost 50
million views.
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