Anastasia Churkina is the journalist daughter of Vitaly Churkin, her father served until today as Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations. The Russian diplomat died a day short of his birthday after suffering a heart attack while in New York at the age of 64.
Anastasia’s father was born Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin on February 21, 1952. The Russian diplomat served as Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2006 until his death in 2017. He previously held other titles including Ambassador at Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador to Canada, Ambassador to Belgium and Liaison Ambassador to NATO and WEU.
During the 90’s he also served as Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation and Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR/Russian Federation.
He was fluent in Russian, Mongolian, French and English.
He is survived by a wife Irina, and two adult children. One of them, being RT journalist, Anastasia Churkina. Meet her below.
Anastasia Churkina is a reporter employed by Russia Today News Network. Churkina is currently based in London where she is a correspondent. Anastasia has one brother, Maxim Churkin.
According to her Twitter bio, Churkina describes herself as an “Emmy nominee, New York Festivals finalist. Restless globetrotting adventurer. News decipherer.”
Churkina’s official profile on RT’s website says that she positioned herself as a roving reporter in Moscow before spending six years working in New York City crisscrossing the U.S.
She attended the Moscow State Institute of International Relations where she studied law. Churkina received several award nominations for her series from the Guantanamo detention camp, Cuba.
Anastasia Churkina is fluent in English, Russian, French, Spanish and Italian.
In 2015 the BBC had to publicly apologize to Anastasia Churkina after making false statements. In an interview Daily Politics host Andrew Neil stated as fact that RT reporter Anastasia Churkina had interviewed her father Vitaly Churkin “live on air.” The point was brought up – in an over-the-top, theatrical manner – as a shocking example of poor journalism at RT, and as a point of derision against the channel.
That statement, however, was false. Anastasia has never interviewed her father for RT – not “live on air,” nor in any other format.
You can follow Anastasia Churkina on Twitter here.
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