Journalism Eugene joined school years and all the time that has elapsed since then, he has gained immense experience in this field. Now Popov is one of the most popular journalists of the leading rating news program on television, and longtime partner of TV presenter for a long time became the wife of Eugene Popov is his colleague and companion in private life.

Life behind the scenes

Marriage with Olga Skobeeva not the first in your personal life Evgeny Popov – before her for some time he was married to Anastasia Churkinoj. This Union was short-lived and children after he left.

Photo: ex-wife of the journalist

First wife Evgenia Popova – the daughter of a former permanent representative of our country to the UN Vitaly Churkin, they met in the period when Eugene was on a business trip in the States, where he worked as own correspondent of the VGTRK. Popov ex-wife, also a journalist, an employee of TV channel Russia Today, often visited the UNPO mission building, where they likely met.

First wife Anastasia Churkina Evgeny Popov

The affair ended with a wedding, but the family life of the couple did not last long and they divorced before Eugene ended the period of official travel. But the heart of a journalist not long remain free – while working in new York he met with the Russian journalist Olga Skobeeva, who arrived there to shoot some stories.

On the photo: Evgeny Popov and Olga Skobeeva

A short meeting turned personal life Evgeny Popov, and after the departure of Olga’s home, they continued to talk, and their long-distance relationship lasted for a year. Only after returning home Eugene Popov made Kabaevoy offer, and they officially became husband and wife.

The wedding date they had to endure several times in that period, she worked in Brussels, and Eugene in the US, so they decided to get married in new York. The couple doesn’t like to talk about his personal life, trying to keep her details away from prying eyes, and that they were married even colleagues Kabaevoj and Popov learned only a few years later.

The family of the journalist

It is known that in the fourteenth year, was born the first and only of the children of Eugene – son, male. Popov could not be with his wife – he worked in Ukraine, where in that period was the popular unrest on the Maidan.

However, he did everything possible to come to Moscow and to take his wife and newborn baby home from the hospital, and again in the evening to fly to Kiev.

Now Zahara, five years, and it requires a lot of attention of parents who devote all their free time.

“With the male we see each other every day – morning and evening. We spend all weekend. He have rightly requires attention. Discussing his problems, even discussing our problems…” – tell the wife about your son.

Despite the fact that the work occupies a large part of the life of famous TV family for them is always a priority.

Photo: Olga Kabaeva son

They are together all day, their professional life is very rich, so maybe time for domestic quarrels simply is not, and if small disputes arise, they concern only of professional activity.

Brief biography

Eugene is a native of Vladivostok, he was born in September seventy-eighth year. According to Popov, in journalism it by accident, and it happened thanks to the parents who, seeing in a local paper announcement of the recruitment of children in the children’s program “the SAC” in the seaside radio, took his son there.

On the photo: Evgeny Popov in his youth

Then his Wife was thirteen years old, and his debut as a journalist was successful. This inspired Popov to continue working and determined his whole career. Later, the scope of its activities has expanded, the teenager became a member of local television.

After school Eugene has entered the far Eastern state University in the Department of journalism, and after graduation he continued his career as a journalist.

After spending two years as a correspondent for the program “Local time” and correspondent of “Vesti”, Popov continued his creative career in the capital.

“I graduated from the University of Vladivostok, worked in local news, and then was invited to “Lead”. Came global professional happiness. I tried very hard,” recalls Eugene.

For two years he was a reporter in Ukraine, covering the events of the “orange” revolution, and after returning to Russia was a political columnist of “Vesti Nedeli”.

The program “60 minutes” that he first presented in September of the sixteenth year, and his co-author and co-host was his wife Olga Skobeeva. Since then they, along with the program to discuss hot Russian and global political issues, expressing their opinions and giving the floor to those present the famous politicians, deputies and other famous personalities.

Known to the priests and their work in the field of documentary cinema, he has directed such films as “Kyiv Sich”, Telemidae”, “media Literacy”. For his views on the separation of Crimea Popov was included in the sanctions list of Ukraine.