“Popular and provocative current affairs program” — C.J. Chivers and Sophia Kishkovsky, The New York Times
“Enjoyed consistently high ratings” — BBC News
“[Featuring] legendary journalist Leonid Parfyonov, perhaps Russian television’s most respected personality” — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker
The weekly Namedni show aired on the NTV channel during evening primetime on Sunday, presenting news and analysis of breaking, current, and recent events in Russia and around the world. Launched in September 2001, the program gained increasingly high ratings and critical and public acclaim.
AVA Media Group pitched, researched, produced, wrote, and edited features of 4 to 10-minutes length
Avoiding congestion in Moscow: lessons of New York (Itogi, 2007)
Anton Yelchin: a profile of a Russian-born rising Hollywood star (Glavnyi Geroy, 2006)
Russian Arm: a Russian engineer invention that shook Hollywood (Segodnia, 2006)
Doris Eaton Travis: dancing at 101 (Segodnia, 2005)
Barbeque wars in Carolinas: North vs South (Segodnia, 2005)
The politics of same sex marriage (Namedni, 2004)
American deserters in Canada (Namedni, 2004)
W: ketchup for true Republicans (Segodnia, 2004)
Students from the Russian city of Voronezh in historically black Alcorn University (Namedni, 2003)
JFK: Witnesses of the tragedy reconstruct the fatal day (Namedni, 2003)
Cheerleading: the American tradition (Namedni, 2002)