Alyona Minkovski
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Alyona Leonidovna Minkovski January 30, 1986 Moscow, Soviet Union |
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Alyona Leonidovna Minkovski (Russian: Алёна Леонидовна Миньковская, born 30 January 1986) is a television correspondent and presenter. She was the host of The Alyona Show on the Russia Today (RT) international news network from October 2009 until the final edition of the program aired on July 30, 2012. She currently hosts news shows on HuffPost Live, The Huffington Post's video network.
Born in Moscow, Minkovski was raised in California. She is a daughter of the United Russia politician and figure skater Irina Rodnina and entrepreneur Leonid Minkovski, a Russian Jewish family. At age four, Alyona Minkovski immigrated to the U.S. with her family, who ultimately settled in Lake Arrowhead, California. She graduated with a B.A degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Cruz. After graduation she went to work for RT in its Washington, DC studios as an intern. As a producer in December 2008 she was given an on-air assignment on Inauguration Day in January 2009. After doing a second pilot show, she was tapped to become host of RT's first live show which premiered in October, 2009.
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