Maria Finoshina Wikipedia, Nationality, Married, Husband, RT Biography

Name Maria Finoshina

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB As of 2024, she is around 41 years old. This is an estimate based on her graduation year from university, 2005.

Wiki Bio / Profile Background

Introduction :

Maria Finoshina has been a war correspondent for RT, formerly known as Russia Today, since 2005. RT is a Russian international television network paid for by the Russian government. The network is based in Moscow, Russia.
Her reporting has been described as heroic and courageous & she has covered stories in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Ukraine, Africa & the Middle East.

Maria focuses on the pain and struggles of the innocent people, especially children, caught between the warring factions.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Currently, Maria is based in Miami, South Florida, although she spends a lot of time away from home when on assignment in war-torn countries, both during conflicts and post-conflict.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

Maria earned her Master’s Degree from Russian University, where she studied from 2000-2005.
She has studied foreign languages including French and English. She has also studied history, philosophy, literature and psychology.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Maria has covered stories in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Ukraine, Africa, and the Middle East, putting her life at risk in order to inform viewers around the world of the plights of the people.
She even produced a documentary for RTD, the documentary channel, about Syrian children. The documentary covered the childhoods destroyed after six years of conflict. It cites some terrible statistics with 52% of children not in school, 2 million of them being refugees, 86,000 without food, and approximately 500,000 being orphaned.
Maria usually produces her own segments from start to finish. She researches, films, writes, and edits her own segments on the human side of war.

During her time in Africa, she has traveled to Mali, Sudan, and Darfur, talking with both local residents and international forces on the ground.
She spent months in Ukraine during and after the civil war there.
During the Arab Spring in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria, she reported from the NATO-bombed Tripoli, the riots in Cairo, protests in Deir Ezzor, as well as Tunisia, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, and Damascus.

She reported from Tripoli, Libya, both when Gaddafi’s forces controlled it and when the rebels took over.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

In September 2013, the Phils Report blog nominated Maria for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Maria has found herself in many perilous situations, including pepper spray attacks, possible kidnap attempts in Syria and Lebanon, and harassment in Egypt. At times her support crew, including cameramen, have been injured.
She had an extensive interview with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the second son of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader who was overthrown and killed in 2011. This was during the time when he was in hiding from Interpol.
In late 2018, a Russian TU-160 bomber sent to Venezuela was about to land when Maria was standing on the airport runway. During her walk toward the landing aircraft, one of the bomber’s wings passed narrowly over her head. As a result of her close proximity to the landing jet, she was at risk of injury due to turbulence, a retired B-52 instructor pilot said.

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