Andrey Kalitin is a famous Russian journalist who has been working in
the investigation genre for over 10 years. The creative career of Andrey
Kalitin began in 1990 in
the celebrated programme ‘Vzglyad’ (‘Opinion’) which was aired on the then
Soviet television. Later, in 1994, Andrey headed the creative group of the TV
project ‘Sovershenno Sekretno’ (‘Strictly Confidential’) and became one of the
presenters of this programme together with Artyom Borovik, the founder of the
holding of the same name. In 2006, Andrey Kalitin started conducting the new
project of Channel 1, called ‘Special Investigation.’ All these years, Andrey
has also published his articles in various Russian mass media, such as the
newspapers Sovershenno Sekretno, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Argumenty Nedeli, and in
the magazine Muzhskaya Rabota. Kalitin supervised filming of his programmes in Chechnya, Chernobyl
(Ukraine), Cuba, Lebanon,
USA, Great Britain, Canada,
Israel, France, India,
Pakistan,
and many other countries. He participated in special operations of the Russia militia
and conducted investigations of celebrated murders together with the
investigators from the Public Prosecutor’s Office. He has visited about 20
prisons and settlements where the most dangerous Russian criminals are kept. In
1999, the programme ‘Sovershenno Sekretno,’ within which Andrey Kalitin’s
accounts on criminal topics went on air, was awarded with the top national TV
prize: the national award TEFI. Later on, Andrey became the many time winner of
the award ‘Legal Order & Society’ instituted by the Ministry of the
Interior of the Russian
Federation; he was also awarded with the
prize of Artyom Borovik’s Foundation ‘For Contribution to Development of
Journalistic Investigation Genre.’ At present, Andrey continues conducting his
investigations on the pages of the website www.stopcrime.ru, shoots documentary films on
Channel 1, and acts as Adviser for Informational Policy at the United Editorial
Office of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation. In February
2008, his first book – D-Day – was published in Russia, which
accounts about the Russian mafia in one of the essential areas of the country’s
economy: in the aluminium industry.