Nikolai Svanidze

Nikolay Karlovich Svanidze (Russian: Николай Карлович Сванидзе, born 2 April 1955 in Moscow) is a Russian TV and radio host and member of the Public Chamber of Russia.

Named after his paternal grandfather Nikolai Samsonovich Svanidze — a distant relative of Joseph Stalin's first wife Kato Svanidze — who took an active part in the October revolution and served as a high-ranking official in the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic under the protection of Sergo Ordzhonikidze. He was married to Zilya Isaakovna Luskina, also a Bolshevik revolutionary of Jewish origin who worked at the Zhenotdel structure. In 1937 he was arrested and executed among other Georgian officials who promoted exclusive rights for the Georgian SSR, including xenophobic laws for non-Georgian residents. Mother of Nikolay Karlovich was Adelaida (Ada) Anatolievna Svanidze (born Kryzanowskaya), a Soviet and Russian historian, professor and doktor nauk.

Nikolai Svanidze graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University in 1977. In 1977-1990 he was a research fellow in the Institute for US and Canadian Studies. Since 1991 he has worked for the All-Russia State Television and Radio Company and has been a host on its Russia TV channel, in 1996-2007 authoring and hosting the weekly analytical program "Zerkalo" ('Mirror'). Both of his grandfathers were executed under Stalin's regime in 1937. The rest of his family, during the repressions of 1939, was sent to the Gulag.

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