Elena Vinnik is a Russian television host and news anchor of . She was born on September 23, 1976, in Pskov. Her maiden name is Malinskaya.

As a child, she dreamed of becoming a veterinarian and treating animals. In her school days, she attended rhythmic gymnastics classes and had reached a very high level in the section. She currently is a Master of Sports in this field.

Education

After getting her High School Diploma, Elena enrolled at Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) in the Faculty of Law. Studying as a lawyer came easily to her and she came through it with

excellence.

Thanks to being exceptionally gifted she won the prize of Open Society Institute founded by business magnate George Soros and was given a scholarship on further education at Manchester University. After completing her education in Great Britain, Elena Vinnik returned to Russia as a Master of International Private Law.

Career

Elena Vinnik started her career as a television host in 1994 in her hometown Pskov. When the girl was a freshman at the Pskov Volny Institute, her mother recognized that the local television was looking for a set of girls for one of the channels from the running line on the TV screen. She wanted her daughter to take part in the casting, and as a result, Elena passed. The girl first received the work of a correspondent, and then became a host on the GTRK (State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company). For a short while, Elena switched to Telecom Channel ** 7 but soon returned to her former place of work.

In 2000, Elena moved to Moscow and after a while, she got into the studio of the popular NTV Channel . There the host run Today where she started with Morning Broadcasts and then switched to Daily News.

At NTV, Elena Vinnik has worked for more than 12 years and during this time has managed to become a Laureate of the All-Russian Journalists' Contest Economic Revival of Russia. She also won the For Promotion of Healthy Lifestyle Award and was titled as the Most Charming TV Presenter of 2007.

In April 2015, Elena Vinnik switched to work for Channel One . Presently the TV host can be seen on the air of the broadcasting program named Evening News with Elena Vinnik. [1]

"News is a teamwork. It often happens that one channel has a "picture", but the other does not. As it turns out, one correspondent gets to be closer to the place of an event than others. Not always for nothing, but the "picture" is shared out. We share it with the Channel One, the Channel One shares it with us. Russian television is shared out very often because there are many correspondent points in Russia.

As for the news itself, some channels, give out old news for news, when it is already not new. The main principle of giving news is to make it new.

Sometimes the event that happened yesterday, say, in the evening, is broadcasted next day at 3 PM. At NTV this is impossible."

Elena Vinnik [4]

Apart from the official job on TV, Elena participated in the shooting of several commercials (e.g. commercial of Rosselkhozbank) and along with a few other Russian celebrities, social activists and sportswomen such as Diana Gurtskaya, Irena Ponaroshku, Irina Slutskaya and others contributed to the creation of the socially oriented documentary "Live, baby!".

Social work

In November 2011 the première of the social film Live, B aby was held. Elena Vinnik took a direct part in the preparation of this charitable project along with Natalia Metlina, Diana Gurtskaya, Irina Slutskaya, Irena Ponaroshku, and other famous personalities. Elena Vinnik starred in an advertising clip of Rosselkhozbank's payment cards in support of the Amur tigers within the framework of ANO Center Amur Tiger Project. When making payments on this card, the bank would transfer 0,7% of the cost of each purchase to protect the Amur tigers.

Personal life

When Elena arrived in Moscow in 2000, she met her future spouse, Andrey Vinnik there. Andrey is a Candidate of Economic Sciences and a biotechnologist, and, surprisingly, is also from Pskov. As reported in the article of Komsomolskaya Pravda , he is an owner of the Recreation Center. Quite quickly, Andrey and Elena got married, and soon the first-born daughter Ekaterina appeared in their family. She, following in the footsteps of her mother, gained a Juveline Rank in Rhythmic Gymnastics at the age of 7. To date, Elena already has given birth to three children and all three are girls. ^[1]

The Vinniks care about the health of their children, so the family does not live in the megalopolis, but in a country house in Rublevka, close to nature. Elena, Andrey, and their daughters often travel. Especially the host is interested in the eastern countries and everything that is associated with them: cuisine, dances, and languages.

According to the well-known edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Andrey Vinnik is Elena's second husband. As stated in this newspaper, even in Pskov, the host first married a student at her university, but before she moved to Moscow, they divorced.

Elena is often quoted talking about her love of East and its culture: "I am in love with the East.

I used to do Eastern dance, I adore Eastern cuisine and Turkish hammam.

We have one in our house and as weird as it may sound, I go there more often in summer than in winter"^[1].