Maria Sittel
Maria Eduardovna Sittel (November 9, 1975) is a Russian television presenter and an anchor on the Vesti program at Russia-1. She won the Russian TEFI award. Early life and education. Sittel was born on November 9, 1975 in Penza, Russia. She is the daughter of Eduard Anatolyevich Sittel, who has German ancestry, and Larisa Pavlovna, who has Jewish roots. Sittel studied at the Penza Medical Lyceum until 1993, when she transferred to the V. G. Belinsky Penza Institute of Teacher Education and majored in biology and chemistry. Later, she graduated from the All-Russian State Distance-Learning Institute  of Finance and Economics with a degree in finance and credit. Career. Sittel began her television career in 1997 in her hometown on the program "Musical Souvenir" on the Penza channel "Our House". In 1998, she became a correspondent and later a news presenter on the Penza Express television channel. In 1999, she started working at State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company in Penza. From September 24, 2001 to May 14, 2006, Sittel worked as a daily news presenter on Vesti TV channel Russia-1. In September 2003, she replaced as the regular nightly newscaster. From 2004 to 2005, she hosted  the daily show "Osoboe Mnenie" ("Minority Report") on Radio Rossii. From May 15, 2006 to June 17, 2016, Sittel presented the nightly news with Dmitry Kiselyov (until July 2008) and Andrey Kondrashov (since September 2008). Sittel covered the lying-in-state of Boris Yeltsin on April 25, 2007 with Nikolai Svanidze live on Channel One and Russia-1. From 2008 to 2011, she hosted the annual program "Conversation with Vladimir Putin: continued" with . From September 6, 2009 to December 25, 2011, she hosted the program "Special Correspondent". On May 14, 2018, after a two-year break, she returned to the Vesti  program. On 18 March 2022, Sittel, together with Dmitry Guberniev, was the host of the Moscow rally in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Participation in other TV projects. Sittel has participated in episodes of the TV game show . In 2006, Maria Sittel and her partner Vladislav Borodinov took part in the first season of the television competition Dancing with the Stars in Russia. The couple won first place, which gave them the right to participate at the Eurovision Dance Contest 2007, where they finished in seventh place. Personal life. Sittel is married to Alexander Lyubomirovich Tereshchenko (b. 1979 ). She has a younger sister, Anna Sittel, who also works at VGTRK. Until 2013, she was the presenter of the Vesti-Penza programme. Sittel is fond of photography, alpine skiing, sports and reading books.