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Capital University: Gerhold Lecture Series in the Humanities
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Lecture: "From Russian TV Show Host to Anti-Putin Oppositionist: My Life as a Journalist"
7:30 p.m.
Huntington Recital Hall, Capital University, 2199 E. Main St, Bexley, OH
Free and open to the public
Evgeny Kiselev, who now lives in Spain due to persecution in Russia, was a Russian-Ukrainian television host, political analyst, and author of a Russian-language YouTube channel bearing his name. He began his journalistic career in the mid-1980s and co-founded NTV, then Russia’s largest independent private television channel. He has interviewed prominent politicians, including U.S. presidents Nixon, Carter, and Clinton, as well as world leaders such as Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Thatcher. Due to the opposition to Putin, Kiselev was ousted from NTV in 2001 and persecuted as a persona non grata, prompting a move to Ukraine in 2008. After Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine, Kiselev was blacklisted in Russia as a “foreign agent.” In January 2025, he appeared in a CBC documentary titled “Putin’s Dark Rise to Power.” Source OSU Armed Conflicts