Vsevolod Ovchinnikov

Vsevolod Ovchinnikov, 2009

Vsevolod Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov (Russian: Все́волод Влади́мирович Овчи́нников; born November 17, 1926, Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian journalist and writer-publicist, one of the leading Soviet postwar international journalists; orientalist and expert on Japan and China.

For nearly forty years he was a correspondent and political columnist Pravda, currently is a columnist in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta.[1]

Author of books "Sakura (The story of what kind of people the Japanese)" (1970), "Roots of Oak (Impressions and thoughts about England and the English)" (1980), "Hot ashes (Chronicle of a secret race for the possession of nuclear weapons)" . For these books in 1985 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.[2]

Honorary member of the Russian-Japanese "Committee of the 21st century", the political expert peer network Kremlin.Org.

Since 1953 to 1960 he worked as a special correspondent of "Pravda" in China, from 1962 to 1968 - in Japan, from 1974 to 1978 - in the UK.

In addition, there are short-term missions in the United States, Nicaragua, Mexico, Indonesia, and India. Reports from these countries are united in the book "The element of race".

Twice traveled to Tibet (1955, 1990).[3][4]

Reports and essays Ovchinnikov devoted mainly to social, political and economic problems around the world - the trade union movement, the national liberation struggle, relations with developing countries by transnational corporations, humanitarian issues.[5]

Ovchinnikov had the opportunity of the first Russians to put flowers on the grave of Richard Sorge.[4]

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