Oksana Boyko
Oksana Boyko
Oksana Boyko (Ustundag) is a Russian journalist resides in Moscow who hosts the Worlds Apart biweekly, geopolitical analysis show on RT. [1]
Education
Oksana graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University with a B.A. in Journalism and an M.S. in mass communications from the Kansas State University. [1]
Career
Boyko started with RT in 2005 as a political correspondent and then became a foreign correspondent, covering conflicts in Syria, Libya, Chechnya and Afghanistan. [1] As the host of Worlds Apart, Oksana asks direct questions with deep knowledge of the subjects. She has interviewed President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić, President of Slovenia Borut Pahor, President of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, President of Iceland Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, Prime Minister of Ireland Enda Kenny, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Palestine Riyad al-Maliki, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Minister of Defense of Iran Hossein Dehghan, PACE President Ann Brasseur, OSCE General secretary Lamberto Zannier, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland, former UN Secretary general Kofi Annan, UN Special Representative for International Migration Peter Sutherland, UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, UN High Commissioner on Refugees Antonio Guterres, CEO and Editor of Foreign Policy magazine David Rothkopf and many other politicians, experts and scholars, as well as actors, athletes and even an opera singer Montserrat Caballé. [1] Boyko also regularly interviewed about foreign politics on national and international radio such as the BBC. [9]
Personal Life
Boyko is married and has a child.