Vakhtang Kipiani
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- Journalist
- historian
- opinion journalist
Vakhtang Kipiani | |
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| Born | April 1, 1971 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Years active | 1990–present |
Vakhtang Kipiani (Georgian: ვახტანგ ყიფიანი, Ukrainian: Вахтанг Кіпіані; born April 1, 1971) is a Ukrainian journalist, historian, and opinion journalist the most famous for his book "The Case of Vasyl Stus" that won the first place in the "List of 30 iconic books of Ukrainian Independence" compiled by Ukrainian Book Institute and Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine with help of voting of qualified voters in 2021.[1] He is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Istorychna Pravda (from September 2010), the head of the Museum-Archive of the Press and lecturer in Ukrainian Catholic University and in National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is a recipient of Shevchenko National Prize in journalism[2] and a Honored Journalist of Ukraine (from 2005).
Vakhtang Kipiani was born in 1971 in Tbilisi, Georgia (then part of Soviet Union). He graduated from the V.О. Sukhomlynskyi National University of Mykolaiv. He was a participant of the Revolution on Granite in Ukraine in 1990.[3] From 1990 when he started to write for the newspaper of People's Movement of Ukraine he worked as journalist in Ukrayina Moloda, Novyi Kanal, Kievskiye Vedomosti, 1+1 (TV channel), Focus as editor-in-chief, Inter (TV channel) as editor-in-chief of Velyki Ukraïntsi, TVi (TV channel), UA:First as moderator of the election debates of 2010 Ukrainian presidential election and from 2013 and up to now is a host of a TV program "Historical Truth with Vakhtang Kipiani" that from 2019 is being broadcast on Espreso TV. Since 2010, Vakhtang Kipiani has lectured at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and then also at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Kipiani studies the history of the informal press in the former Soviet Union,[3] gathering examples of local newspapers in Museum-Archive of the Press.[4] He is also researching manifestations of extremism in media.[5]
