Mikhail Lesin

Mikhail Lesin (left) with Vladimir Putin

Mikhail Yuriyevich Lesin (Russian: Михаил Юрьевич Лесин) is a Russian political figure, and currently an adviser to the Russian president. Lesin is credited as the creator of the RT television news network (previously known as Russia Today) "to establish a news channel that would counter CNN and BBC -- with a Moscow spin".^[1] Lesin also served as minister of antiquities for the Russian Museum of Ethnography from 1993–1995.^[2]

References

1. ^ Controversial Propaganda: Using Stalin To Boost Russia Abroad Der Spiegel 20 November 2007
2. ^ http://eng.kremlin.ru/subj/22378.shtml

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Name	Lesin, Mikhail
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Date of birth	1958
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