Tina Kandelaki
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Tina KandelákiTina Kandeláki ' onMouseout='HidePop("72398")' href="/topics/Tbilisi">Tbilisi
, Georgia
) is a Russian journalist, young politician, TV presenter and producer. A co-owner of the Apostol Media Group company.
. Lived in Moscow after his retirement. Givi Kandelaki is descended from the Kandelakis, a noble Georgian family of Greek descent. Tina’s mother Elvira Kandelaki (maiden name Alakhverdova) is a narcologist of Armenian (or half-Armenian, half Turkish) descent. Tina graduated from the high school #64 for the children of servicemen. In 1993 Tina entered Tbilisi State University
, a Medicine Department. But soon after she left medicine and joined a Journalist Department. In 2008 she graduated from The Russian State University for the Humanities
, a Foreign Affairs Department.
and started working on many TV and radio stations, such as M-radio
, RDV, Silver Rain Radio
, 2x2
, Biz-TV, Muz-TV
, Vremechko and TV-6.
In 1997, during one of the M-radio airs Tina told a story about her speech faults during the early years of her career. Apparently, the exercises that she used to do to improve her speech faults made her talk extremely fast. This feature of hers became a subject of parodies on TV.
Since September 2002 Kandelaki has been hosting the talk show Details on STS
(Russian TV-channel) with Russian celebrity guests. In 2006 she received her first TEFI
(the highest Russian TV award) for the “Best Talk Show TV Presenter” nomination. Since February 2003 Kandelaki has been hosting the TV show The Brainiest
, the most popular intellectual game show for children. The show, as well as its host, received two more TEFIs — in 2004 and 2009.
2006 — Tina Kandelaki together with Sergey Dorenko
presented a weekly political program on Echo of Moscow
(Russian radio station);
2008 — is a TV-host of the Unreal Politics show on NTV. Born as experimental online project, Unreal Politics has turned into the most popular talk show on Russian TV with top guests from politics, business and entertainment;
2009 — Kandelaki is a host of Two Stars, a TV-show on Channel One
;
2009 — is a producer of Infomania, a TV-program on STS
, a unique infotainment program for thinking audience;
2009 — dubbed a guinea pig named Juarez of the G-force
movie by Walt Disney Pictures;
2010 — is a jury member of KVN
Top-league (a TV game show);
2010 — is a TV-host for the Perfect Man show on STS Channel
.
, President of Georgia
. “A man who acted as a mouthpiece for democracy in Georgia turned out to be a medieval tyrant”. She addressed a call to the Georgians to draw an international attention to the situation in Tbilisi, when the authorities were broking up public demonstrations, and to stop Saakhashvili. In September 2008 Tina accused Saakashvili in bringing the situation in the South Ossetia
to the military conflict with Russia.
Since October 2009 Kandelaki has become a member of The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
on the invitation of President Dmitry Medvedev
. Kandelaki is a member of the Civic Chamber Committee on Education. Tina Kandelaki takes active stand for the favorable conditions destined to cultivate the potential of gifted children, and promotes the introduction of modern technologies to Russian schools. In addition to the activities of the Civic Chamber, Kandelaki organized and led the series of round tables under the title of “The Internet as an instrument of revealing weak spots of society” and “How would the Russian education system change under the pressure of demographic problems?”, among the participants of which were the heads of Russian regions, representatives of federal state authorities, influential businessmen and famous bloggers.
Since 2010 Kandelaki has been the owner of the Tinatin restaurant in Moscow. All the recipes from the Tinatin menu belong to Kandelaki’s mother. On June 3, 2011, Tinatin received the Russian National Restaurant Award for “The Best Ethnic Cuisine”.
In May 2011 Kandelaki joined the board of directors of Vyatka-bank.
On November 26, 2006 Kandelaki was involved in a car accident in Nice, France. Kandelaki was a passenger of the Ferrari Enzo which was driven by Suleyman Kerimov
, entrepreneur and billionaire. The car went off the road and crashed into a tree. The cause of the car accident remained unknown. The entrepreneur was seriously injured and taken to hospital, while Tina, burned, was trying to escape bad publicity and left for Moscow.
Tbilisi
Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
, Georgia
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
) is a Russian journalist, young politician, TV presenter and producer. A co-owner of the Apostol Media Group company.
Bio
Tina’s father Givi Kandelaki (1942 – May 1, 2009) was an economist and the director of a vegetable depot in TbilisiTbilisi
Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
. Lived in Moscow after his retirement. Givi Kandelaki is descended from the Kandelakis, a noble Georgian family of Greek descent. Tina’s mother Elvira Kandelaki (maiden name Alakhverdova) is a narcologist of Armenian (or half-Armenian, half Turkish) descent. Tina graduated from the high school #64 for the children of servicemen. In 1993 Tina entered Tbilisi State University
Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University , better known as Tbilisi State University , is a university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region...
, a Medicine Department. But soon after she left medicine and joined a Journalist Department. In 2008 she graduated from The Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian State University for the Humanities
The Russian State University for the Humanities , is a university in Moscow, Russia with over 5500 students. It was created in 1991 as the result of the merger of the Moscow Public University and the Moscow State Institute for History and Archives The Russian State University for the Humanities...
, a Foreign Affairs Department.
TV and Radio
Kandelaki worked for Radio 105, a radio station in Tbilisi, Georgia, until 1995, when she left for MoscowMoscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
and started working on many TV and radio stations, such as M-radio
M-Radio
M-Radio is a Russian Moscow-based radio station.It started broadcasting in 1991 as «M-Radio. New Wave» in Moscow on 71,3 FM.At the moment it broadcasts to Moscow only on 96,4 FM and via Internet....
, RDV, Silver Rain Radio
Silver Rain Radio
Silver Rain Radio is a Russian FM radio station since July 4, 1995. Radio frequency in Russia - 100,1 FM. Initiator of the Silver Galosh Award for the most dubious achievements in show business every year. This prise awarded at the congress-hall of Radisson-Slavyanskaya hotel. Is known to be the...
, 2x2
2x2 (TV channel)
2×2 is Russia's oldest private entertainment TV channel. Since 2007 it specializes in animated series.-History:Founded in 1989 and first aired on September 27, 1990, 2×2 became the first commercial television in the Soviet Union....
, Biz-TV, Muz-TV
Muz-TV
Muz-TV is a Russian music TV channel, broadcasting since 1996. It is largely modelled after western MTV and predates launching of MTV Russia in 1998. Muz TV was founded by Sergey Lisovskiy...
, Vremechko and TV-6.
In 1997, during one of the M-radio airs Tina told a story about her speech faults during the early years of her career. Apparently, the exercises that she used to do to improve her speech faults made her talk extremely fast. This feature of hers became a subject of parodies on TV.
Since September 2002 Kandelaki has been hosting the talk show Details on STS
STS (Russia)
CTC is a commercial television station based in Moscow, Russia. It belongs to the CTC Media, a Delaware-registered, Moscow-based NASDAQ-traded company with a market capitalization exceeding US$4 billion...
(Russian TV-channel) with Russian celebrity guests. In 2006 she received her first TEFI
TEFI
TEFI is an annual award given in the Russian television industry, presented by the Russian Academy of Television. It has been awarded since 1994. TEFI is presented in various sectors , such as television shows, notable people in the television industry, journalists, channels...
(the highest Russian TV award) for the “Best Talk Show TV Presenter” nomination. Since February 2003 Kandelaki has been hosting the TV show The Brainiest
The Cleverest
The Cleverest is the Ukrainian and Russian telecast of the intellectually-entertaining character, one of the most popular versions of the British teleproject «Brainiest».-External links:* * * *...
, the most popular intellectual game show for children. The show, as well as its host, received two more TEFIs — in 2004 and 2009.
2006 — Tina Kandelaki together with Sergey Dorenko
Sergey Dorenko
Sergey Leonidovich Dorenko is a Russian TV and radio journalist, famous for hosting a controversial weekly news commentary program in 1999-2000....
presented a weekly political program on Echo of Moscow
Echo of Moscow
Echo of Moscow is a Russian radio station based in Moscow, broadcasting in many Russian cities, in some of the former-Soviet republics , and via the Internet, which some observers describe as "the last bastion of free media in Russia"...
(Russian radio station);
2008 — is a TV-host of the Unreal Politics show on NTV. Born as experimental online project, Unreal Politics has turned into the most popular talk show on Russian TV with top guests from politics, business and entertainment;
2009 — Kandelaki is a host of Two Stars, a TV-show on Channel One
Channel One (Russia)
Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...
;
2009 — is a producer of Infomania, a TV-program on STS
STS (Russia)
CTC is a commercial television station based in Moscow, Russia. It belongs to the CTC Media, a Delaware-registered, Moscow-based NASDAQ-traded company with a market capitalization exceeding US$4 billion...
, a unique infotainment program for thinking audience;
2009 — dubbed a guinea pig named Juarez of the G-force
G-Force (film)
G-Force is a 2009 spy-fi comedy film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Walt Disney Pictures in Disney Digital 3-D. Written by Cormac and Marianne Wibberley, the film is the directorial debut of Hoyt Yeatman, whose earlier work includes contributions in the area of visual effects...
movie by Walt Disney Pictures;
2010 — is a jury member of KVN
KVN
KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961...
Top-league (a TV game show);
2010 — is a TV-host for the Perfect Man show on STS Channel
STS (Russia)
CTC is a commercial television station based in Moscow, Russia. It belongs to the CTC Media, a Delaware-registered, Moscow-based NASDAQ-traded company with a market capitalization exceeding US$4 billion...
.
Public Activities
In November 2007 Kandelaki condemned the policy of Mikheil SaakashviliMikheil Saakashvili
Mikheil Saakashvili is a Georgian politician, the third and current President of Georgia and leader of the United National Movement Party.Involved in the national politics since 1995, Saakashvili became president on 25 January 2004 after President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned in a November 2003...
, President of Georgia
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
. “A man who acted as a mouthpiece for democracy in Georgia turned out to be a medieval tyrant”. She addressed a call to the Georgians to draw an international attention to the situation in Tbilisi, when the authorities were broking up public demonstrations, and to stop Saakhashvili. In September 2008 Tina accused Saakashvili in bringing the situation in the South Ossetia
South Ossetia
South Ossetia or Tskhinvali Region is a disputed region and partly recognized state in the South Caucasus, located in the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic....
to the military conflict with Russia.
Since October 2009 Kandelaki has become a member of The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
Public Chamber of Russia
The Public Chamber is a state institution with 126 members created in 2005 in Russia to analyze draft legislation and monitor the activities of the parliament, government and other government bodies of Russia and its Federal Subjects. It has a role similar to an oversight committee and has...
on the invitation of President Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is the third President of the Russian Federation.Born to a family of academics, Medvedev graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1987. He defended his dissertation in 1990 and worked as a docent at his alma mater, now renamed to Saint...
. Kandelaki is a member of the Civic Chamber Committee on Education. Tina Kandelaki takes active stand for the favorable conditions destined to cultivate the potential of gifted children, and promotes the introduction of modern technologies to Russian schools. In addition to the activities of the Civic Chamber, Kandelaki organized and led the series of round tables under the title of “The Internet as an instrument of revealing weak spots of society” and “How would the Russian education system change under the pressure of demographic problems?”, among the participants of which were the heads of Russian regions, representatives of federal state authorities, influential businessmen and famous bloggers.
Business
Tina Kandelaki is a business partner and co-owner of the Apostol Media Group company which produces TV-programs for the leading Russian TV channels and provides full spectrum of PR services.Since 2010 Kandelaki has been the owner of the Tinatin restaurant in Moscow. All the recipes from the Tinatin menu belong to Kandelaki’s mother. On June 3, 2011, Tinatin received the Russian National Restaurant Award for “The Best Ethnic Cuisine”.
In May 2011 Kandelaki joined the board of directors of Vyatka-bank.
Personal life
- Andrey Kondrakhin (born September 30, 1975) – the former husband, an artist and co-owner of the multi-field clinic ASKON;
- Melaniya Kondrakhina (born 2000), daughter;
- Leontiy Kondrakhin (born 2002), son.
On November 26, 2006 Kandelaki was involved in a car accident in Nice, France. Kandelaki was a passenger of the Ferrari Enzo which was driven by Suleyman Kerimov
Suleyman Kerimov
Suleyman Abusaidovich Kerimov is a member of the Federation Council of Russia, a businessman, an investor and an active philanthropist...
, entrepreneur and billionaire. The car went off the road and crashed into a tree. The cause of the car accident remained unknown. The entrepreneur was seriously injured and taken to hospital, while Tina, burned, was trying to escape bad publicity and left for Moscow.
Awards and Achievements
- Winner of 3 TEFIs awardsTEFITEFI is an annual award given in the Russian television industry, presented by the Russian Academy of Television. It has been awarded since 1994. TEFI is presented in various sectors , such as television shows, notable people in the television industry, journalists, channels...
(2004, 2006, 2009); - In 2006 Kandelaki won the Russian style and fashion award Astra for “The Most Stylish TV-hostess”;
- In 2006 won the Glamour magazineGlamour (magazine)Glamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....
award for “Form and content”; - Tina was voted the sexiest TV-hostess in Russia among 10 nominees of the “Top 10 Sexy” awards in a “TV” category.
Filmography
- 2005 — Ne Rodis' Krasivoy (the Russian version of Ugly BettyUgly BettyUgly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which premiered on ABC on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series revolves around the character Betty Suarez and is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea...
), small cameo as a spoke-person for Zimaletto company - 2007 — Папины дочкиDaddy's Daughters"Daddy's Daughters" is a Russian TV series produced in 2007—2011. Made by "Kinokonstanta" and "Kostafilm" film companies. It characterized the various aspects of life — there are themes of family, love, work, study, and friendship. The series has very high television ratings and many awards...
, a small cameo - 2008 — Asterix at the Olympic GamesAstérix at the Olympic Games (film)Asterix at the Olympic Games is a French film, adapted from René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's Astérix comic series. It was filmed essentially in Spain in the course of the year 2006. Its €78 million budget makes it one of the most expensive European movies ever...
, dubbing a Greek Princess Irina - 2009 — G-forceG-Force (film)G-Force is a 2009 spy-fi comedy film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Walt Disney Pictures in Disney Digital 3-D. Written by Cormac and Marianne Wibberley, the film is the directorial debut of Hoyt Yeatman, whose earlier work includes contributions in the area of visual effects...
, dubbed a guinea pig named Juarez - 2009 — The Forbidden Reality, a small cameo
- 2009 — Moriachok, a music video of the Russian band Nochniye SnaiperiNochniye SnaiperiNochnyie Snaipery is a Russian rock group. It was founded in 1993 as an acoustic female duo of Diana Arbenina and Svetlana Surganova . The ladies played guitar and violin respectively, sharing the vocal and songwriting duties evenly, eventually adding amplification to the band...
Interesting Facts
- Tina is naturally a left-hander, but was trained to be a right-handed person
- According to Tina, she forced herself to speak extremely fast in Russian in order to learn the language
- According to the opinion of her journalist colleagues, Tina is the epitome of an extremely smart and glamorous style
- Tina has two tattoos. A Reiki symbol Cho ku rei (its meaning vary, but the most common is “a very quick healing of wounds”) on her left wrist, and a Chinese hieroglyph on her left thigh, which means “mother”. These images were tattooed on the places of burns.
External links
- Official Site
- Tina Kandelaki's livejournal
- Eating with the enemy: why Russia loves Georgian food, The Independent, March 10, 2010
- Chechen leader wants women covered to prevent 'distractions', The Independent, February 1, 2011