User:BeatriceVelline/Natella Boltyanskaya

Natella Savelievna Boltyanskaya (Russian: Нате́лла Саве́льевна Болтя́нская (Киперма́н), born 20 May 1965, Moscow) is a Russian journalist, singer-songwriter, poet and radio host on Echo of Moscow.

Music Career
Boltyanskaya is a songwriter and poet, and has published four music albums, Warning (2001), Restoration (2003), Sleepers (2005), and Shepherd's Song (2009). Her music and poetry is largely political, with songs about Nikita Khrushchev, Solomon Mikhoels, Anna Politkovskaya and song Gaechka ("Nut"), largely regarded as criticism of Vladimir Putin.

Since 1993, she has been the Director of the Creative Association of Russian bards.

Journalism Career
Boltyanskaya hosts several programs for Echo of Moscow, including the program Bard about Russian author song, the history program In the name of Stalin, and the political/news programs People are against and Special opinion. She has hosted programs for NTV (Russia), Echo TV Russia, Russian TNT, TV Tsentr and other Russian television channels.

She produced the documentary Parallels, Events, People about the 2011–13 Russian protests and Soviet dissident movement.