Viktor Topaller

Victor Alexandrovich Topaller (; July 13, 1958 – January 10, 2018) was a Russian-American journalist, director, and television/radio personality, known for his work on RTVi. During the 1990s, he worked in Israeli news television and founded the Tel Aviv newspaper . He later moved to America where he conducted over 700 interviews for his RTVi talk show, In New York with Victor Topaller, from 2000 to 2017. He wrote articles for , the first Israeli newspaper in Russian. In 1997, Topaller founded Tel Aviv newspaper and was its deputy editor-in-chief as well as a regular author. The play was translated to Russian by Mariana Belenky. — who paid $60 million, which allowed the channel to be restarted under the leadership of Alexey Pivovarov.

However, a year later, the funding was severely reduced, leading to the firing and the cancellation of various American shows in favor of airing programming from Moscow. He praised the ban on Muslim immigrants and wrote that those who criticize Trump are "left-liberal trash and punks" who "deny common sense [and] provoke a civil war".