Vitalij Nikitich Ignatenko (b. 1941), Russian journalist and film script-writer, is the general director of the largest Russian news agency, ITAR-TASS. From 1986 to 1990 he was editor-in-chief of the popular international magazine New Times. The name was suggested by V. Fortov.
Discovered on 4-10-1978 in Nauchnyj by Smirnova, T. M.