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Mikhail Osokin

Mikhail Glebovich Osokin (Russian: Михаил Глебович Осокин; born January 14, 1952, Kalinin, RSFSR) is a Russian journalist and TV presenter, columnist. He holds the Candidate of Historical Sciences degree.

He was born on January 14, 1952 in Kalinin (Tver) in European Russia. He was raised by his grandmother, Johanna Robertovna for the first few years.

He studied at School No. 9 (now Gymnasium No. 3) in Volgograd; he lived with his stepfather and mother, who had arrived from Novosibirsk during the formation of the Volgograd television studio.

He was expelled from the second year of the History Department of Moscow State University for active participation in a student strike with the wording "For an anti-communist attitude toward public life and work" and reinstated after military service. He served in the Soviet Air Forces, and was a squad commander.

In 1975, he graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University, and then from graduate school at Moscow State University. He was a classmate of Nikolai Svanidze.

In 1982, he defended his dissertation "Trade of England with the Levant during the crisis of English absolutism (1600-1640)" for the degree of candidate of historical sciences.

From 1978 to 1990, he worked in the World Service of Moscow Radio in the editorial office of broadcasting to the USA and Great Britain.

Since 1990 he worked in television, in the information department of the Soviet Central Television, and then - Ostankino Television Company. He was the host of the information and entertainment program Good Morning, then - a commentator and host of the TSN news program [ru].

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