Evgeny Popov is a famous domestic journalist and TV presenter. Viewers know him thanks to the socio-political program "60 minutes" on the channel "Russia-1", which he leads with his colleague Olga Skabeeva.
The beginning of the way
The future television journalist was born in the fall of 1978 in the large port city of Vladivostok. Combining his studies at the school, he began to collaborate with the local radio and, at the age of thirteen, became the host of the Sacvoyage program. Even then, the teenager decided on the choice of a future profession and firmly decided to become a journalist.
Journalist career
After graduation, the young man continued his education at the Far Eastern University. While still a student, he worked on the coastal channels Public Television of Primorye and Vladivostok. After graduation, he continued his career as a correspondent for the Vesti program in Vladivostok, but wanting to achieve more, he moved to Moscow.
Since 2003, he was in the capital of Ukraine at the office of the TV channel "Russia". In Ukraine, he often had to work in rather difficult conditions. During the Orange Revolution, Popov traveled to the Kiev Maidan hot spots to organize live coverage.
The first overseas trip of Eugene was the North Korean city of Pyongyang. In 2005, the journalist returned to the Russian capital and prepared political reviews in the Vesti Nedeli project. This went on until the next trip abroad, now to the United States. In New York, the correspondent stood at the head of the Vesti bureau and introduced compatriots to the life of Americans. After this, Popov's career began to gain momentum.
In 2013, Eugene appeared on the channel as the author of the program "News at 23:00." Periodically replaced Dmitry Kiselyov’s colleague in the main issues of Vesti. In the fall of 2016, the first 60-minute talk show was aired, the correspondent created it in a duet with Olga Skabeeva. The program discusses problematic issues that worry compatriots. Well-known politicians and public figures, experts, foreigners are invited to the studio. Often their views do not coincide, and a real discussion flares up in front of the audience.
Personal life
While in New York, Eugene began to communicate with Anastasia Churkina, the daughter of a famous politician. Nastya was a colleague of Popov and reported to Russians about life in the United States. Soon, young people started a family, but the marriage was not strong, and after the divorce Popov again ended up in Moscow. He was alone for a long time and worked diligently on his own career.
After a while, Eugene met his “soul mate”. She turned out to be a TV presenter Olga Skabeeva, who became Popov's wife. Soon the first-born son Zakhar was born to the couple. Only relatives know about the personal lives of TV presenters, they try not to put family issues on public display.
