Mitkova to be NTV news co-ordinator, Parfyonov to join new NTV management

Tatyana Mitkova, who had been a news anchor on the NTV channel since 1993, but walked out a week ago because of differences with Yevgeny Kiselyov, will now be NTV news coordinator, the company's Internet website NTV.ru. says. It turns out that rather than be a formal news service executive, Mitkova will be a coordinator responsible for "something of the kind." It's her own decision not to anchor news on NTV any longer, the report says. Leonid Parfyonov, who also quit, admittedly, "for nowhere" a week ago but has come back and joined the new management will most likely alternate between handling the feature Geroi Dnya or Hero of the Day and making the Russian Empire TV serial, NTV. Ru says.