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Curriculum Vitae

Anatoly Verbin

Date of birth: Sept 10, 1954

Nationality: Russian. Residency: Bulgaria

Anatoly Verbin is an independent journalism trainer and media consultant, creating and running workshops in different countries. He was previously a correspondent for Reuters News Agency for 16 years working in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans.

Since 2002 he has designed and conducted training workshops in English and Russian in Bulgaria, Austria, Georgia, Moldova, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Russia, Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, the Czech Republic, Tajikistan and Ukraine. The subjects include Business, Ethical, Health and General News Journalism, Human Trafficking, Elections, NGOs and Development. Clients include Reuters Foundation, UNICEF, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), European Journalism Centre, IREX Europe, Eurasia Foundation, USAID, Transitions on Line, Internews Europe, RIA Novosti news agency, Interfax news agency and other individual media clients.

He has also conducted media training for ministers and their top aides in Moldova, senior bank managers in Russia, OSCE mission staff in the former Soviet Union and Kosovo, and worked as a media adviser to the OSCE in Montenegro on a short-term assignment.

Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - basic; 5 - fluent)

Language Reading Speaking Writing Russian 5 5 5 English 5 5 5 Bulgarian 4 4 4

Curriculum Vitae

Professional experience

Date from - Date Location Company Position Description to

1986 – 1998 Moscow, Reuters Assistant, correspondent, deputy Covered the Russia news editor, news editor in charge collapse of the of general and political news from Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent Gorbachev, States Yeltsin, Soviet and Russian parliaments, 1991 and 1993 coups, the first war in Chechnya in 1994-1996 and multiple elections across the CIS

1998 – 2002 Sofia, Reuters Chief correspondent Bulgaria Covered all major Bulgaria events in the Balkans, including crises in Kosovo and Macedonia, also covered most major crises and elections in Russia in that period

2002 – the Independent journalism trainer and present media consultant

Membership of professional bodies: Co-founder of the Moscow Charter of Journalists.

E-mail: [email protected] Phones: Home: +359 2 997 10 39 (tel/fax) Mobile: +359 888 592 400 Postal address: Anatoly Verbin, Morava 5, Bankya, 1320, Bulgaria