Tina Kandelaki

Tina Kandeláki s a Georgian-born Russian journalist, public figure, TV presenter and producer. A co-owner of the Apostol company.

Tina was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tina’s father Givi Kandelaki (1942–2009) was an economist and the director of a vegetable depot in Tbilisi, moved to Moscow upon retirement. Givi Kandelaki is descended from the Kandelakis, a noble Georgian family of Caucasus Greek descent. Tina’s mother Elvira Kandelaki (maiden name Alakhverdova) is a narcologist of Armenian descent.

Tina graduated from high school #64 in Tbilisi. In 1993 Tina was accepted into the Medical Department of Tbilisi State University. But soon after she left medicine and transferred to the Journalist Department. In 2008 she graduated from the Foreign Affairs Department of the Russian State University for the Humanities.
On November 26, 2006, Kandelaki was involved in a car accident in Nice, France. Kandelaki was a passenger of a Ferrari Enzo driven by Suleyman Kerimov, Russian billionaire and entrepreneur. The car went off road and crashed into a tree. The cause of the car accident is unknown. Kerimov was seriously injured and rushed to hospital.