Tatyana Koshkaryova

Koshkaryova was born in Moscow on 5 September 1962.^[1] Her mother was a doctor and her father was a military pilot.^[2] Koshkaryova is a graduate of the MSU Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University,^[3] obtaining a degree in journalism in 1986.^[4][5]

She worked in the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and later became a correspondent for the Gudok [fr; hy; ru; uk] and Moskovskiye Novosti newspapers,^[3] working at the latter from 1992 to 1993.^[2] Koshkaryova worked as a correspondent in the economics department at the Today [ru] newspaper between 1993 and 1995. She was promoted to columnist and then editor of the newspaper's economics department.^[6] In 1997, Koshkaryova was appointed editor of the politics department at the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper and was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief in August 1998.^[1][2]

She was the presenter of the Russia-1 programme SKV.^[2] In April 1999, Sergey Dorenko resigned from his position of Head of the Information Programming Directorate at the urging of Channel One director Igor Shabdurasulov [kaa; ru; uk; uz] and Koshkaryova was chosen as his successor following a recommendation by businessman Boris Berezovsky.^[4] She resigned from Nezavisimaya Gazeta in March 1999,^[2] and began working in the position in June 1999, which she held until September 2000.^[6] Koshkaryova also worked as Deputy General Director of ORT from 24 January 2000 to September 2000.^[1][2] In June 2001, she was appointed editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta by the newspaper's shareholders.^[7] Koshkaryova said she was influenced to take up the position because she was acquainted with the staff and the editorial board's internal structure.^[8] She resigned from the position in February 2007, after Konstantin Remchukov, the newspaper's owner, became its editor-in-chief and general director.^[1]

Koshkaryova has one child.^[2] She is a 1998 recipient of the Golden Pen of Russia [ru] from the Russian Union of Journalists.^[9]