Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian journalist and author
Aleksandr Gurnov, full name Aleksandr Borisovich Gurnov, (born 8 July 1957 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian TV persona.In 1973, Aleksandr Gurnov became a correspondent for the Russian national newspapers Pionerskaya Pravda and Komsomolskaya Pravda. Gurnov graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1980, and in the same year he became the editor, author and presenter of a weekly political programme on State TV and Radio Broadcasting of the USSR. In April 1984 to February 1985 Gurnov notably engaged in military service in Ethiopia as a member of the Russian Ground Forces. He was awarded with the Defender of Russia state award in 1991 and two years later, in 1993, he was appointed the Bureau chief of Russia Today in London. He has also worked on the Russian Sports channel Match TV. Gurnov was a head of the Russian television news agency TSN, on Moscow's TV-6. In 2006, he participated in an online interview with, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as a representative of the website Yandex.

Gurnov currently presents the "Spotlight" programme on the international Russian television network, RT.

Aleksandr Gurnov likes watching television, drawing, playing tennis and doing mountain skiing. He speaks English, Russian, French and Amharic. He is married and has a seven-year-old son.