Aleksandr Luchaninov

Aleksandr Luchaninov is a reporter for XL on Russia Today.

He joined RT's newsroom when it launched in August 2005, working as a broadcast journalist for more than a year before becoming a reporter.

Highlights of Aleksandr's career with Russia Today include reporting live from the scenes of a deadly hospital fire in Moscow and a fatal plane crash in Samara.

Aleksandr also covered the re-opening of the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary after a major incident.

He's following the dispute over the future of Kosovo for Russia Today, and has prepared a series of reports about life in the breakaway Serbian province.

In October 2007, Luchaninov filmed the XL Report "Kosovo: Conflict Through the Centuries". The half-hour report presents a comprehensive snapshot of modern Kosovo. Luchaninov spent weeks in the troubled region, talking to those who took part in the Kosovo war, and collecting stories from ordinary people.

Georgia was in focus of his second XL project. Luchaninov followed opposition rallies that turned into violent clashes between police and protesters in the capital Tbilisi. The XL report "Georgia: a Fragile State" looks back at the events of November 2007 - events that could have sparked another revolution.

Aleksandr has broadcast exclusive interviews with major figures in European politics, including the Serbian President Boris Tadic, the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Jean-Paul Costa, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Rene van der Linden, and the late President of the Republic of Srpska in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Milan Jelic.

Aleksandr Luchaninov graduated from Moscow State University's Faculty of Journalism.

Sport is Aleksandr's main hobby, along with literature, travelling and geography.

He is fluent in Russian, English and Serbian.