Former participant of KVN team "Guys from Baku" Timur Weinstein was appointed the General Producer of Russian NTV channel. In the early 90s Vaynteysh was one of the artistic directors of the Baku KVN "Guys from Baku". In 1996, he graduated from the Azerbaijan Medical University in psychiatry. After moving to Moscow, he worked in television company VID and studied how to become a director of TV programs in the Russian Institute of Television. Since 2000 he worked as the producer and the director of the Russian cinema award ceremony "Nika". In 2009 he founded the company "White Media". Since 2013, Timur Weinstein is the member of the Board of Directors of "CTC Media". He is a Member of the Russian Television Academy and a number of other television organizations.
Notable facts of Weinstein’s biography is that he is also a relative of several famous people. So, his mother Beyaz Vezirova is a sister of Abdurahman Vezirov, the former first secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. Timur's father is a composer Leonid Weinstein, brother of Harry Kasparov’s father. -02В-
Culture
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Swiss singer Sophie de Kua will give concerts in Baku as part of her "Cultural Bridges Tour." The first concert is scheduled for September 18 at 7:00 PM at the Rashid Behbudov Theatre, initiated by the Swiss Embassy in Azerbaijan.
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The Italo-Azerbaijani University, established with the participation of five leading Italian universities, is operating in Azerbaijan. Establishment of such a joint educational institution in Azerbaijan is evidence of strategic partnership between the two countries. This was stated by President Ilham Aliyev, speaking at the Chernobio International Forum on 6 September.
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Preliminary official results of the parliamentary elections held on September 1 confirmed the results of the exit polls. The New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is renewing its absolute majority in the Milli Majlis and receives 68 seats.
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Alain Delon, the French screen icon whose smoldering looks and magnetic presence defined European cinema for decades, has died at the age of 88. His children confirmed his death in a statement to Agence France-Presse on Sunday.
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