Evgeny Popov is a well-known Russian journalist and TV presenter. Since 2016, he has been the host of the 60 Minutes program along with his wife Olga Skabeeva.
Eugene was born on September 11, 1978 in the Far East in the city of Vladivostok. His mother worked as a teacher at a local university. And from his school years he showed an interest in journalism. So, Eugene got a job at the local radio host of the "Sacvoyage" program - he still remembers this experience as something important and significant in his life.
Naturally, Popov decided to receive higher education at the Faculty of Journalism. In 2000 he graduated from the Far Eastern State University. Popov, while still a student, worked for the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Vladivostok, OTV-Prim and other television and radio companies.
Evgeny Popov is the case when a person went to work in his specialty. As soon as he received his diploma, he immediately became a correspondent for the daily news service Vesti. At first he made reports in Vladivostok, later he moved to Moscow.
And in 2003, on duty, Popov went to Kyiv.
There he works in the Ukrainian branch of the Russia TV channel. By the way, political topics have always attracted a journalist, therefore, under his authorship, a series of reports on the Orange Revolution is published.
After that, in 2005, Evgeny returned to Moscow, where he became a political observer for Vesti Nedeli.
But not for long Popov was in this role - soon the channel Russia sends a journalist to America.
He was head of the New York News Bureau and special correspondent for the channel.
The next milestone in Popov's career was his return to Moscow in 2013, when he returned to work as a political observer. Moreover, life has thrown another reason - Euromaidan in Kyiv.
And we remember that Yevgeny already had experience in covering such events.
Slowly but surely, Evgeny Popov climbed up the career ladder on the Rossiya channel.
For three years he replaced Dmitry Kiselev in the Sunday editions of the Vesti program.
And in 2016, together with his wife Olga Skabeeva, he became the host of the new socio-political project "60 Minutes".
Personal life
Despite the fact that Popov has been regularly appearing on television for 15 years, he tries not to advertise the details of his personal life. However, some details still became available to the public.
While working in New York, the journalist met Anastasia Churkina, a correspondent for the Russia Today channel.
When their first meeting took place and how these relations developed is unknown. We only know that the couple tied the knot, but the marriage did not last long, and in 2012 they divorced.
Returning to Russia, Evgeny met the journalist of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Olga Skabeeva.
It was she who became his second wife and mother of the first-born son Zakhar, who was born in 2014.
When Olga was in the hospital, Evgeny filmed specials on the Maidan in Kyiv.
“I flew in from Kyiv in the morning, took my family home, and in the evening I flew out again,” says Popov. “This is the kind of journalistic share that we also love.”
The hosts hide their family life very carefully - only in 2017 it became known how they got married, given that the wedding took place in 2013.
In this video, Evgeny Popov reveals the secrets of his life:
It was April, Eugene lived in New York, Olga was on a long business trip in Brussels. It seemed to the lovers that there was nowhere to delay the marriage - especially since there was a consulate two streets from the house where Popov lived. But because of work, I still had to postpone the wedding date - twice.
The whole celebration, like the relationship itself, was kept secret from many colleagues, the holiday itself was modest and quiet.
Photos from the wedding of Popov and Skobeeva in New York
Wedding photo with a view of New York
As a creative tandem, Evgeny and Olga show themselves very professionally. In September 2016, the socio-political show "60 Minutes" started, which the spouses host together. Despite the busy schedule (after all, the episodes are broadcast live from Monday to Friday), the family couple finds time for their son.
“Zakhar rightly demands attention,” Popov notes. “We are with him every morning and evening, we spend the whole weekend.”
And in 2017, their project was awarded the TEFI award as the best socio-political prime-time talk show.
And Popov himself won in the nomination Host of the socio-political prime-time talk show.
Popov admits that his wife came up with the name. And about how they manage to always come to a common opinion, Skabeeva says that they were just lucky to be on the same wavelength. In addition, it is important to listen to the opinion of your partner - then the issue of leadership will not be acute. And all the questions that did not have time to discuss in the studio are discussed very briefly on the way home and are not transferred to family relationships - Evgeny assures.
Evgeny Popov is a well-known Russian television journalist and TV presenter, currently the main character in the 60 Minutes TV program.
He was born and raised in Vladivostok, in an intelligent family. His mother taught biology at a local university. Even in his school years, Eugene became interested in the profession of a journalist, and initially he wanted to cooperate not with print media, but with television. The young man received his first experience of communicating with an audience at a local radio station, where he hosted the Sacvoyage program in high school.
Having received a matriculation certificate, Evgeny Popov goes for higher education to the Faculty of Journalism of the Far Eastern State University. But even here, the young man was not limited to studying alone and almost immediately got a job at the Primorye TV channel, where he acted as a correspondent.
TV presenter
Having become a certified specialist, Evgeny Popov continues to be a correspondent, but already in the more prestigious Vesti news corporation. Interestingly, on his first foreign business trip, he immediately went to one of the most closed cities on the planet - the capital of North Korea, Pyongyang.
At first he was a special correspondent in Vladivostok, but soon moved to Moscow. Since 2003, for two years, Popov lived in Kyiv as a seconded employee of the Rossiya TV channel. Basically, his reports dealt with the political situation in Ukraine. He covered the course of the Orange Revolution, about which he spoke generally positively.
In 2005, Evgeny returned to the capital of Russia and became a permanent political observer for the Vesti Nedeli project. In two years, he is waiting for a new business trip, this time in the United States. In New York, Popov headed the Vesti bureau and covered the life of Americans for domestic television viewers.
In 2013, the TV presenter began presenting the author's program "Vesti at 23:00" on his channel. He also replaced Dmitry Kiselyov in the main Vesti program, and later on the Special Correspondent talk show, he led discussions in the studio where Arkady Mamontov spoke before him. Since September 12, 2016, Evgeny Popov, together with the bright TV presenter Olga Skabeeva, has been presenting the social and political talk show "60 Minutes" to the audience.
It is also worth noting that Evgeny Popov is the author of the documentary film Media Literacy, which was shown in 2016 as part of the Special Correspondent project. The tape tells about the geopolitical situation in Europe and reveals some ways of conducting an information war.
Personal life
While on a business trip in New York, Evgeny Popov met Anastasia Churkina, who worked in the USA on the Russia Today TV channel. By the way, Anastasia is the daughter of Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations. Young people began to meet, and then got married. True, this marriage was not too long, and in 2012 the official divorce proceedings took place.
Shortly after breaking off relations with his first wife, Popov returned to Moscow, where he met his second wife. She became the correspondent of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Olga Skabeeva. Now Evgeny and Olga not only live in the same family and are raising a common son, Zakhar, born in 2014, but also host a joint TV project “60 Minutes”.
32-year-old Olga Skabeeva and 38-year-old Evgeny Popov are one of the most talked about married couples on domestic TV.
A few years ago, VGTRK journalist Olga Skabeeva married another well-known journalist, Yevgeny Popov, a TV presenter for Vesti and Special Correspondent.
Now Olga Skabeeva and Evgeny Popov are hosting a new talk show on the Russia-1 channel “60 minutes” together and raising their son Zakhar.
On January 14, 2014, the couple had their first child. Olga did not stay on maternity leave for a long time and immediately set to work. In 2015-2016, she hosted the Vesti.doc program on the Russia-1 TV channel.
Since September 12, 2016, together with Evgeny Popov, he has been hosting the socio-political talk show "60 Minutes".
The audience noted that the pair of presenters complement each other well and understand perfectly. As it turned out, this harmony is not without reason, the presenters are married.
For Olga Skabeeva, this is the first marriage, and Evgeny Popov has already been married once.
Evgeny Popov worked in New York, where he headed the Vesti bureau. There he met Anastasia Churkina, who worked in the USA on the Russia Today TV channel.
Anastasia Churkina is the daughter of Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations.
Evgeny Popov and Nastya began to meet and soon got married. However, this marriage did not last long, in 2012 Popov and Churkina broke up.
Soon after the divorce from his first wife, Evgeny Popov returned to Moscow. Here he met Olga Skabeeva, who became his second wife.
Olga Skabeeva was born on December 11, 1984 in the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd Region, where she graduated from high school. In the ninth grade, she firmly decided to become a journalist. She began her journalistic career in the local newspaper "Week of the City".
She studied at the Faculty of Journalism of St. Petersburg State University, from which she graduated in 2008 with honors and joined the federal editorial office of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. During her studies, she worked in the Vesti St. Petersburg program.
She was a scholarship holder of the Potanin Foundation. In 2007 she received the "Golden Pen" award in the "Perspective of the Year" nomination and the youth award of the government of St. Petersburg.
In 2008, she became a laureate of the "Profession - Reporter" competition in the "Journalistic Investigation" nomination.
Evgeny Popov was born on September 11, 1978 in Vladivostok in the family of a biology teacher. While studying at school, he worked on the local radio as the host of the "Sacvoyage" program.
In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Far Eastern State University. As a student, he worked on seaside television.
Since 2000, he has been a correspondent for Vesti. The first position in the program is a correspondent in Vladivostok. Then he moved to Moscow. Since 2003, he worked in the Ukrainian office of the Rossiya TV channel, covering the Orange Revolution in his reports.
In 2005 he returned back to Moscow and was a political observer for Vesti Nedeli.
In 2007, he became a correspondent for the Rossiya TV channel in the United States, where at first he worked together with Konstantin Semin, and was the head of the New York bureau of Vesti.
In 2013, he continued to work at Vesti as a political observer. He worked in Kyiv, on the Euromaidan, including in the same group with Anton Voloshin, who tragically died in Ukraine in June 2014.
Since the fall of 2013, after reformatting the Vesti + program, Popov began to host the author's Vesti at 23:00 program instead of Vasily Zhuravlev and Oksana Kuvaeva.
From July 2014 to June 2016, he broadcast alternately with VGTRK correspondent Maxim Kiselyov. Along the way, he made reports for the program "Special Correspondent", among them - "Telemaydan", "Blockade. Slavyansk, etc.
In 2014-2016, during the vacation of Dmitry Kiselyov, he replaced him as the host of the Vesti program on Sundays at 20:00.
From September 2014 to July 2016, he led discussions in the studio as part of the television project "Special Correspondent" instead of Arkady Mamontov.
Since September 12, 2016 - the host of the socio-political talk show "60 Minutes" paired with his wife Olga Skabeeva.
Olga Skabeeva and Yevgeny Popov are the hosts of the political program. They are also husband and wife. The reporters got married in New York. And the fact that the couple had a son, Zakhar, was announced throughout the country in the Vesti program. The love story of two talented journalists is in the program.
"We see Zakhar every day - morning and evening. We spend all weekends with him. He rightly demands attention from us. We discuss his problems, we even discuss our problems, although he is only three and a half years old. Zakhar is very logical, everything is important to him to know, to charge everyone with mood. For example, in the morning we went to kindergarten, so he greeted everyone. We endlessly love our child, "this is how Olga and Evgeny talk about their son.
Olga gave birth in January 2014. Eugene at that moment was on the Maidan. "All the mothers, after their children fell asleep, also went to bed. And I went into the corridor, where there was a large TV, and watched special issues. I was very worried." Then Eugene had a lot of work, he flew in to check on how pregnant Olga was, and soon flew back. And at the time of the birth of his son, Eugene was editing a film for the program. “This is our reporter’s share. When it was necessary to pick up Olga and Zakhar from the hospital, I flew in from Kyiv in the morning, took my family home, and flew back in the evening,” says Yevgeny Popov.
Yevgeny Popov was on business trips both in the Donbass and in Syria. Olga, of course, was worried about her husband: "We are reporters. Such is our work and such a life: good, fun, and sometimes not very good." "There is a job, there is a family - everything is important. But it is clear that in the first place, what is a priority," Evgeniy adds.
The views of the spouses differ on many things, this also applies to politics. "True, this is a secret. Sometimes we park near the house and can't get out of the car, because we had a big argument. We are together 24 hours a day. Our life is filled with a huge number of events - there is no time to stop, let alone quarrel."
Evgeny Popov is from the Far East. "I graduated from the University of Vladivostok, worked in local news, and then they invited me to Vesti. Global professional happiness set in. I tried very hard."
Olga was born in the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd region. After school, she left for St. Petersburg, where she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of St. Petersburg State University. She began working in the Vesti-St. Petersburg program.
Here is what Olga tells about the wedding: “I was on a long business trip in Brussels, and Zhenya worked in New York. We decided that it was more convenient to get married in New York. Due to work, they postponed the wedding several times. numbers. In general - it happened in April 2013." And Eugene even had to make a report on the day of the wedding.
About the family, about patriotism, about the dangerous side of the work of journalists, about their favorite cities and about saving a dove - Evgeny and Olga told Boris Korchevnikov about all this in the program "The Fate of a Man".
Russian TV journalist and presenter.
Evgeny Popov Biography
Evgeny Georgievich Popov was born and raised in Vladivostok. After graduating from high school, Popov entered the Far Eastern State University and already during his studies began working on television.
Popov is known for his anti-opposition statements. For an open point of view on the issue of the separation of Crimea, he was included by Ukraine in the sanctions list. After working in the Moscow branch of the Rossiya channel, the journalist worked in Kyiv, North Korea and the United States of America.
The presenter is married to a journalist Olga Skabeeva. The couple is raising a son.
Evgeny Popov Career on TV
In 2000, Evgeny first appeared as a correspondent for the daily news program "News". During his cooperation with the TV channel "Russia", Popov acted as a TV presenter and political observer of programs Vesti, Vesti Nedeli, Special Correspondent and etc.
In 2016, a socio-political show was released on the broadcasting network of the Rossiya 1 TV channel "60 minutes", which Popov leads with his wife. Well-known politicians and international experts are invited to the studio for interviews and discussions.
