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Ksenya Ponomaryova

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yurevna and the family name is Ponomaryova.
Ksenya Ponomaryova
Kсения Пономарёва
Ponomaryova in 2000
Born
Ksenya Yurevna Ponomaryova

(1961-09-19)19 September 1961
Moscow, Russian SFSR
Died16 August 2016(2016-08-16) (aged 54)
Moscow, Russia
Alma materMSU Faculty of History
Occupations
  • Editor
  • Media manager
Years active1984–2016
Children2

Ksenya Yurevna Ponomaryova (Russian: Ксения Юрьевна Пономарёва; 19 September 1961 – 16 August 2016) was a Russian journalist, editor and media manager. She was a teacher of foreign languages until 1989 when she was appointed editor-in-chief of the dafily Kommersant newspaper. Ponomaryova was later the general director of the consulting and image-making firm JSC Scheme 5 and was editor of the financial and economic weekly magazine Revizor. From 1995 to 1998, she worked at Public Russian Television (ORT) as its deputy director of information and socio-political broadcasting, general producer of its information programs and finally its general director. Ponomaryova was deputy head of the election campaign headquarters of Vladimir Putin in 2000 and was head of the election campaign of presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin in 2004.

Biography

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Ponomaryova was born on 19 September 1961 in Moscow to a family of scientists.[1] She graduated from the MSU Faculty of History in 1984.[2] Following graduation, Ponomaryova worked at the Moscow School No. 633 as a teacher of the Russian language and literature between 1984 and 1986. She later taught Polish and Slovak at the Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1986 to 1988.[1] Starting in 1988, Ponomaryova he worked at the cooperative information agency Fact (today the Kommersant Publishing House [ru].[2]

She ended her career as a teacher in 1989.[3] In the same year, Ponomaryova was appointed deputy editor-in-chief at the Kommersant Publishing House and later editor-in-chief of the daily Kommersant newspaper,[4][5] when its first issue was published in January 1990.[6] She left Kommersant Publishing House in 1992.[7] Ponomaryova was the general director of the consulting and image-making firm JSC "Scheme 5" from 1992 to 1995.[2][5] In 1993, she helped to establish the financial and economic weekly magazine Revizor and became its editor-in-chief.[2][4]

In October 1995, she moved to Public Russian Television (ORT) and was appointed its first deputy director of information and socio-political broadcasting, having responsibility for the broadcaster's money. Ponomaryova later became General Producer of Public Russian Television's information programs and was made a member of the company’s Board of Directors in April 1996.[2][3][8] From 1995 to 1996, she was the head of the Vremya news programme.[6] In October 1997, at the recommendation of the Russian president Boris Yeltsin, she was appointed to the role of acting general director of ZAO ORT.[4] Ponomaryova became full general director two months later. She left the broadcaster in October 1998 after writing her letter of resignation the month before.[2]

Ponomaryova got involved in the Russian political scene in 2000.[7] That year, she was the deputy head of the election campaign headquarters of Vladimir Putin.[4][3] In 2004, Ponomaryova was the head of the election campaign of presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin.[7][9] During the campaign, she sent a statement to the Central Election Commission asking for Putin's re-election website to be shut down.[8] Ponomaryova was a member of the board of directors of the newspaper Stolichnaya Vechernyaya Gazeta.[4]

Personal life

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She was married and had two children.[4] Ponomaryova died of throat cancer in Moscow on 16 August 2016 and her funeral took place the following afternoon at Nikolo-Arkhangelskoe Cemetery [et; he; pl; ru; uk].[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Пономарева Ксения Юрьевна (1961-2016) Бывший генеральный директор ОАО "Общественное российское телевидение" (ОРТ)" [Ponomareva Ksenia Yuryevna (1961-2016) Former General Director of OJSC "Public Russian Television" (ORT)]. labyrinth.ru (in Russian). 11 August 2016. Archived from the original on 21 October 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Пономарева Ксения Юрьевна" [Ponomareva Ksenia Yuryevna]. biografija.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 February 2025. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  3. ^ a b c Anushevskaya, Anastasia (17 August 2016). "Главный редактор "Коммерсанта" Ксения Пономарева скончалась на 55-м году жизни" [Kommersant editor-in-chief Ksenia Ponomareva has died at the age of 55]. Delovoy Peterburg (in Russian). Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Бывший главред «Коммерсанта» Ксения Пономарёва: досье" [Former Kommersant editor-in-chief Ksenia Ponomareva: dossier]. Argumenty i Fakty (in Russian). 17 August 2016. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Пономарева Ксения Юрьевна" [Ponomareva Ksenia Yurievna]. MediaAtlas (in Russian). Archived from the original on 25 September 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  6. ^ a b Vasilyev, Andrey (16 August 2016). "Конец связи" [End of communication]. Kommersant (in Russian). Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  7. ^ a b c "Умерла бывший главред «Коммерсанта» Ксения Пономарева" [Former Kommersant Editor-in-Chief Ksenia Ponomareva Dies]. Izvestia (in Russian). 16 August 2016. Archived from the original on 23 April 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  8. ^ a b "Пономарева vs путин: Схема номер 5" [Ponomareva vs. Putin: Scheme No. 5]. Novy Vzglyad (in Russian). No. 03. 20 March 2004. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  9. ^ Romancheva, Irina (3 March 2004). "Женское лицо новой оппозиции" [The Female Face of the New Opposition]. Nezavisimaya Gazeta (in Russian). Archived from the original on 3 May 2004. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  10. ^ "«Она была заметна всегда»" ["She was always noticeable"]. Polit.ru [no; ru] (in Russian). 17 August 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
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