Ksenya Ponomaryova
Ksenya Yurevna Ponomaryova 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 daily 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 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
Ponomaryova was born on 19 September 1961 in Moscow to a family of scientists. She graduated from the MSU Faculty of History in 1984. 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. Starting in 1988, Ponomaryova he worked at the cooperative information agency Fact 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. From 1995 to 1996, she was the head of the Vremya news programme. 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. Ponomaryova became full general director two months later. She left the broadcaster in October 1998 after writing her letter of resignation the month before.Ponomaryova got involved in the Russian political scene in 2000. That year, she was the deputy head of the election campaign headquarters of Vladimir Putin. In 2004, Ponomaryova was the head of the election campaign of presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin. During the campaign, she sent a statement to the Central Election Commission asking for Putin's re-election website to be shut down. Ponomaryova was a member of the board of directors of the newspaper Stolichnaya Vechernyaya Gazeta.