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...transcript suggested that the Kremlin planned to storm the theater soon after its seizure, despite claims by government officials of persistent attempts to negotiate a solution. So, the ax fell once again - Jordan left quietly, returning to his Sputnik investment business, while NTV will now be run by Nikolai Senkevich, 34, a physician until now best known in the media for a television show on an obscure regional channel and his article about hemorrhoids in a medical journal. "He is totally incompetent," is Parfyonov's judgment. Parfyonov, who is still immensely popular, is being courted by other TV stations...
...programs that are both fun and uplifting is a 60-minute weekly show called Film Travel Club, which is a window on the world for travel-restricted Soviets. Surveys indicate that 150 million people watch Film Travel Club and its backpacker host, Yuri Senkevich, 43, every Sunday night...
Film Travel Club usually leaves the beautiful propaganda to others and concentrates on natural wonders, like the Grand Canyon, or exotic people in remote, politically inoffensive settings. "We'll show anything that holds people's interest," says Senkevich, whose TV style can best be described as low-key. "What interests them most of all is mysterious tribes, like the Australian aborigines or peoples that live along the Amazon...
Since the show runs every week, Senkevich and his crew must search the world for new places and faces. The viewers themselves help; the show gets some 2,000 letters a month, most of them suggesting stories. Film Travel Club has only a small staff at the central television studios at Ostankino, in northern Moscow. Most of the reports on Soviet sights are received from Gosteleradio, the official agency handling TV production; stories from abroad are reported by regular Soviet correspondents or are purchased from foreign networks. Occasionally, Senkevich himself travels to spots around the world...
...Senkevich is a doctor who specializes in the effects of extreme conditions upon mind and body, and he spent a year in Antarctica researching his doctoral dissertation. That arduous experience brought him some renown, because his name was first on the list when Norwegian Explorer Thor Heyerdahl asked Moscow science authorities in 1969 to suggest a Soviet doctor to accompany him and four others on a papyrus-reed boat across the Atlantic. That Ra expedition, in turn, brought him to the attention of the producers of Film Travel Club, who hired him as host in 1973. The next time...