Oleksiy Mustafin

Oleksiy Mustafin (Олексій Мустафін; born 23 May 1971) is a Ukrainian media-manager, journalist, and politician.

Born in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine), Mustafin graduated from the Kyiv Pedagogical University, which he attended from 1988 to 1993.

Since 1993 Mustafin has been working as journalist of the UNIAN-weekly, Post-Postup and Den newspapers. From 1994 to 1997 he was a reporter on the weekly television show “Pislyamova” where he was also editor-in-chief and anchor from 2003 to 2004. Other media activities include head of the world news department for 1+1 TV channel in 1997, and deputy-chief and chief-editor positions for Inter TV channel from 1998 to 2001. Since January 2006 Mustafin has been chief–editor for STB TV channel.