Vladimir Solovyov (journalist)

Vladimir Rudol'fovich Solovyov (alternative spelling: Vladimir Rudol'fovich Soloviev, Russian: Владимир Рудо́льфович Соловьё́в) (born October 20, 1963 in Moscow, USSR) is a popular Russian TV and radio journalist. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and completed a post-doc position at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. Solovyov is a Doctor of Economics and a member of Russian Jewish Congress.

His father, Rudolf Naumovich Solovyov, and his mother, Inna Solomonovna Shapiro, both graduated from the history and philology faculty of the Moscow State V. I. Lenin Pedagogical Institute. Later on his father taught political economy at a school of statistics, while his mother worked as an arts critic at the Battle of Borodino museum.

In 1980 he graduated from the elite English language secondary School No. 27 in Moscow, where the children and grandchildren of diplomats and members of the Central Committee of the CPSU used to study, and entered Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, graduating in 1986.

In 1989 Solovyov completed post-graduate studies at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow with the defence of his thesis "Basic tendencies of new materials production and its efficiency factors in the USA and Japan" and became a candidate of economic science (a PhD, second (of three) Russian graduate degree in economics). He taught physics, mathematics and astronomy at the School No. 27 until 1990.

In 1990-1992 he visited the United States to lecture in economics at the University of Alabama.

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